video captures question

[captmarvel]

i'm trying to capture video stills from my dvd player. i have windows media player and several other video players.
what i've been doing is stoping the video at the desired frame then hit shift-print screen. but when i "paste" all that shows is a black screen or a copy of the player with a black screen

can someone tell me how to do video captures?

if there is a better forum for this question please direct me

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[franklin97355]

There is software to do this. Media Player is more of a PLAYER than a capture utility.

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[BadBigBen]

@Franklin - I think what he wants is a SCREEN CAPTURE, not Video Capture, which is a totally different ball partk...

@captmarvel - Both VLC and Media Player Classic, have a Screen Print (Capture) ability built in, which can be done at a key stroke... both these players are freeware...

VLC

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Media Player Classic

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli/mpc2kxp6490.zip?download

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[captmarvel]

yes, a screen capture is what i want! thanks ben

 

[vacunita]

Most DVD players have screen capture options. Windows Media Player on the other hand does not.

Have you tried another player? I use PowerDVD that came with my DVD drive.

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[captmarvel]

i downloaded windows classic and it works! thanks. the image comes up squished but i can edit that in corel photo paint. thanks again!