Windows Media Player Screen capture

[General Mortars]

Okay, this is driving me crazy!

I play a short clip on Windows Media Player;
I hit ctrl+P to pause on the frame I wanna grab.

I hit alt+Print Screen and then paste the pic on Photoshop.
I have the file there, in Photoshop 5.5 with the still capture in a jpg document and yet I can´t manipulate it.
On the thumbnail, the grabbed image doesn´t appear and I get a completelly black document (a mask?).

What´s going on in here?

Help!!!

[curryman]

[quote="general mortars"]They say that if you play the Windows CD backward you can hear satanic speech; well, that´s nothing.
When you play it forward, it installs windows

[curryman]

sorry general, can't help you but your sig made me laugh though,
off now to practise this stupid quoting lark that i cant get right

[au7usa]

I have Win2k and WMP 6.4 does the same thing......but not Media Player Classic.

MPC does screen capture just fine!

[Miles]

Try setting the Hardware Acceleration Level to "none" in your graphics card driver settings.

:: Edit: Set it back to full after you have grabbed your screenshot!

[HAMP]

not sure if this makes a diffrence or not, I am using Windows media Player 9 and I used PhotoShop CS and I tried it with PhotoShop 6.

Not sure if you tried this or not but I did everything you did except before I hit Alt+Print Screen, I had Windows Media Player enlarge the image by choosing, View>Full Screen.

I was able to copy and paste then manipulate it

hope that helps

[gmatov]

Do it again.

I have captured many times frpm WMP9, but the first print is a black screen. Just empty the clipboard and "Print Screen' again, you should have a pic. Pain, but it works for me.
Cheers,

George

[bbills]

Genaral...

You are probably using a video card (ATI) that does not allow screen capture of the video image, I think because of the overlay. I have found that if you play a "dummy" video first you can trick the video card into allowing the screen capture. Just open Media Player and play any video, then open a different video player (other than media player), play your video then execute your screen capture. This should work...

[General Mortars]

Thanks for the help, it really worked.
I opened a Quicktime movie alongside the WMP and I managed to successfully capture the image.

Geez, why does Microsoft make my life so hard?