Screenshot in WMP?

[IAmBlakeM]

Ok, I'm trying to take screenshots of some XviD stuff I'm messing around with in Windows Media Player. I'm using mplayer2 (WMP 6.2) and I've turned off hardware acceleration. When I take my screenshot and paste it into paint or photoshop, I see the image. When I try to save the file, the image goes totally black. If I close the video program while the screenshot is still up, the screenshot goes black. I can actually see the video playing within my video editing program I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong.

[Tommyknocker]

What happens when you try load the "black video image"?

[IAmBlakeM]

I get black where the image should be.

[Tommyknocker]

Well, what happens when you press the print screen button on your keyboard and paste the captured screen image into Paint and save it that way?

[IAmBlakeM]

When I paste the image in I can see it fine. When I save it, the image goes black. If I press play on WMP, the image in Photoshop changes to whatever the current scene is.

[Tommyknocker]

How about the Windows Paint program?

[IAmBlakeM]

Same thing.

[bigmicka]

when you press the save as button, make sure that file type is on 24 bit. it may be on a very low setting like monochrome. from memory paint remembers the last option you selected in that window.

mic

[IAmBlakeM]

Nope, same thing.

[rplant]

Weird. Maybe if you paste your screenshot into Paint, then manually copy it, then create a new bitmap and repaste it? Doesn't sound like it'll work, but maybe... actually, nevermind. This is pretty much what tommyknocker said.