ScreenShot

[drgt]

I am playing an avi in a window and freeze it.

I take a full desktop screenshot, but the avi window is saved as black.

How do I take the shot so that the avi window is visible too?

[Baldrick]

It's because of video overlay/hardware acceleration. Some screen capture tools allows this directly or just use mpchc, open video, file->save image. Paste the screenshot into your full desktop screenshot.


edit: You could also start two video players with the same video and one should't use video overlay so it should be possible to take a normal screenshot.

[drgt]

...use mpchc, open video, file->save image. Paste the screenshot into your full desktop screenshot.

Will it exactly fit in the Black area? Because I want to preserve the player's window frame.

edit: You could also start two video players with the same video and one should't use video overlay so it should be possible to take a normal screenshot.

That is not an option, because I want to preserve this particular player's window frame which I want to relay to the party I am taking the screenshot for.

It's because of video overlay/hardware acceleration. Some screen capture tools allows this directly...

This might be what I need.
Can you suggest any?

Thanks

[Baldrick]

Will it exactly fit in the Black area? Because I want to preserve the player's window frame.

You can paste and resize the captured image so it fit exactly in the black window area. Use for example the free paint.net.

[drgt]

Mission accomplished.

Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!

[lordsmurf]

Does MPHC alter the color quality, at all?
Sometimes screen caps do that, and it's not accurate.

[drgt]

To tell you the truth, I had Classic player in my system, I do not know if it is the same as Baldrick's link.
Perfect quality was not what I was looking for... all I wanted to do is fill the exact black box I had before with a decent frame capture and it served my purpose.

If it is the quality of the frame itself you are interested, there are other ways to get a quality one, but you would not get the GUI frame that I wanted.