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Postby The Wired Knight » Sun Oct 27, 2002 3:25 pm

What are you guys using to take screencaps of your computer screen? For some reason the screencap button on my keyboard is no longer working. Freeware is preferable if it exists (not pirated) thanks.
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Postby kthulhu » Sun Oct 27, 2002 3:35 pm

Have you tried pressing "Print Screen", then pasting into an image program?

I usually do that and paste into <a href="http://www.irfanview.com/english.htm">Irfanview</a>. Although, after doing a little exploration, I've found that Irfanview will also do captures.
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Sun Oct 27, 2002 3:38 pm

It depends what I'm taking screen caps of.

If it's just windows applications then I use printscreen ot ctrl + alt + printscreen for just one window.

For directshow captures it's another matter :)
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Postby The Wired Knight » Sun Oct 27, 2002 4:56 pm

Print screen does jack for me, it doesn't give me anything I can paste over nor does it even print the screen.
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Postby The Wired Knight » Sun Oct 27, 2002 5:01 pm

Kthulu's program worked, thanks problem solved.
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Postby kthulhu » Sun Oct 27, 2002 6:23 pm

*Mr Burn's voice*

Excellent!
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everything you guys said just pastes the skin of the player

Postby axron27 » Sun Oct 27, 2002 7:50 pm

it doesn't get the pic at all just a pretty pic of windows media player
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Postby klinky » Sun Oct 27, 2002 9:42 pm

When you hit Printscrn it copys the screen to your clipboard. You must then paste it into a paint/image viewing application, THEN save it.

If you try doing this to a video playing in media player, the hardware overlay prevents it from working and you'll just get a blank media player. You can get this to work by turning off hardware acceleration in the media player Options. Better yet would be to take the video into Virtual Dub, then Video|Copy source frame to clipboard... Then paste it to your favorite image editor.


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Postby Aetherfukz » Thu Nov 14, 2002 7:23 pm

There's a Shareware called SnagIt that does exactly that. You can capture single frames or even movies with it. I don't have the url handy now, but if you google for it, 'tis sure on of the top.
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Thu Nov 14, 2002 10:11 pm

But SnagIt doesn't prevent the hardware overlay problem. I either use SnagIt while in RealPlayer, or use PrintScreen while in RealPlayer / Windows Media Player (Need to turn hardware accelleration off for Medai Player, though) and then paste that screen into Photoshop.
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