How to take screen shot with Windows Media Player.

**zitu82** · #1 11-18-2005, 11:12 PM

How to take screen shot with Windows Media Player

Step 1 - Open your video (of which you want to take screen shots) with Windows Media Player. Next you have to configure video setting within windows media player explained below.

Step 2 - From the windows media player menu bar, click on TOOLS then to Options.

Next in option, click on the performance tab. From performance, click on the Advanced button at the bottom.

Step 3 - In advanced settings, uncheck both of the "use overlays" radio from Video acceleration and DVD video. Press OK and you are ready to take screen shot.

Step 4 - Now press the "print screen" button on your keyboard to capture screenshot of the video while playing the video in windows media player. After pressing the "print scrn" button, pause the video and open MS Paint or any other image editing software. Paste the screen (just press ctrl+v after openining ms paint or Edit > paste from menu) to edit and save the screenshot. Make sure to save as .JPG format. You attach this file in your thread along with your .torrent file using attachment.

**zitu82** · #2 11-19-2005, 07:20 AM

Please post any comments/problems you have faced while following these steps. Thanks.

**BanglaGuru** · #3 11-19-2005, 07:48 AM

Nice tutorial zitu. I am not sure if you checked "Windows Media Player Classic" out but

You can also take good screenshots with "Windows Media Player Classic". Its just as simple as... you "Pause" the video and click "File" => "Save As" then you save it. It saves as jpeg pictures.

If you haven't checked that out please do and let me know how you find it.

You can get it here

or

http://www.free-codecs.com/Media_Pla...c_download.htm

brainwalker · #4 11-19-2005, 12:03 PM

thanx for the tutorial zitu, but I found Windows media player classic more easier to deal wth screenshots. U have to install it anyway wth k-lite codec pack.

**bd3000** · #5 11-24-2005, 10:03 PM

thanks for the tutorial zitu... it works good....

mmasood · #6 11-25-2005, 01:05 AM

thanks a lot

**mehdianis** · #7 12-01-2005, 11:44 AM

read next post, sorry for double click

**mehdianis** · #8 12-01-2005, 11:47 AM

I would like to clarify some points about Zitu's post and BanglaGuru's reply. Zitu82 and BanglaGuru both are correct on how to get a screen shot of a video.

Zitu's process is not easy, but that's the Only possible way one could get a screen shot of a video in Windows Media Player, and that's Zitu's topic of this post. On the otherhand BanglaGuru introduced an easier way to get the screen shot, which I learned for the first time - thanks. But, so called Windows Media Player Classic is not Microsoft's Classic Media player.

In the "About" in help, they are asking for donation. Microsoft is not in such pathitic situation yet. We can actually run the Microsoft's classic media player which comes automatically with any version of windows. Go to Start-> Run-> type mplayer2 and click OK and you will see original microsoft's classic windows media player. By the way this mediaplayer is worse, there is no function to get screen shot.

So, Zitu is correct on how to get screen shot from WinMediaPlayer and BanglaGuru is correct on How to get screen shot easily. But "Windows Media Player Classic" is a registered trade mark for a software, where as "mplayer2.exe" is the classic/old version of Microsoft's "Windows Media Player".

"Windows Media Player Classic" is a nice and handy software which mimics setup/getup of Microsoft's program, but it's not from Microsoft - just for the record.

shumit592 · #9 12-01-2005, 06:01 PM

Zitu bhai
I downloaded pothe holo deri film...it opens but only i can hear sounds ....can't see anything ...whats the problem?
pls tell me...
thanks

**zitu82** · #10 12-01-2005, 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shumit592

Zitu bhai
I downloaded pothe holo deri film...it opens but only i can hear sounds ....can't see anything ...whats the problem?
pls tell me...
thanks

Shumit, which verison of Windows Media Player do you have ?? You need to download latest codecs to see the picture. Try searching for "K-Lite Codec" in google and download the package. Should solve the problem, if not, then post again.

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