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link343 - Jul 15, 2004
  link343 Jul 15, 2004
I want to take a still from a movie running in WMP, but every time it turns up black. How do I do it?

 it290 Jul 15, 2004
The reason that happens is because your player is displaying the video using the video overlay. Either play the movie back using software output, or use video editing software to extract the frame.

 Alexvrb Jul 15, 2004
Such as Virtual Dub or its buddy, Virtual Dub Mod (better container support). Both are free.

 Nadius Jul 17, 2004
Didn't antime mention a simple way like having two instances of the video open, and using one, the one that wasn't using overlay, to take snaps of?

 MasterAkumaMatata Jul 17, 2004

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Nadius@Jul 17, 2004 @ 05:49 AM



Didn't antime mention a simple way like having two instances of the video open, and using one, the one that wasn't using overlay, to take snaps of?


Affirmative....

 gameboy900 Jul 17, 2004
You can also temporarily turn down the video acceleration in the options to the lowest settings. This removes overlay mode.

 Link Hylia Jul 20, 2004
Irfaniew can take screen captures of videos

http://www.irfanview.com...

(amazing what such a small program can do, isn't it?)