If you have ever tried to screen capture with Window Media Player.

It was this easy.

* Open Window Media Player
* Then go to Tools>Options
* In Options, select the Performance Tab
* Way below you click on the Advanced Button
* Uncheck "Use Overlays'
* Click Ok
* And now you can use printscreen to capture any size image



Found here .

This is really strange, because I was going to start a topic the other day asking how to capture images through Media Player. Thanks.

The hardcore among us (read: ignorant) run a separate media player in the background at the same time.

Yeah I had to use BSplayer until I found this.

Window Media Player Classic.

Nice thank you. I have been wanting to do this since Windows Movie Maker either updated or downgraded on its own.

BSPlayer is still better, IMO. 3rd party > MS =P

Does anyone know what overlays do?
Before I started using other players, I've just been turning off hardware acceleration, and that leads to a serious drop in video quality.

thanks, me and a co-worker were talking about this 2 days ago. We had tried several ways in adobe to grab the actual image.

That's really helpful... Thanx for posting that...

Yeah I agree BSplayer is a very nice player, but it does take a lot of system resources, even more than Windows media player. On my jank laptop I have to run WMP or video playback is choppy.

Edit: Here's some stuff from MS about overlays:

I see video, but only for a few seconds

If you find that video disappears or turns a different color, turn off video overlays by doing the following:
1.
In Windows Media Player, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Performance tab.
2.
Click the Advanced button.
3.
In the Video Acceleration area, clear the Use overlays check box.

If the problem continues, try turning off the video mixing renderer (VMR) by clearing the Use video mixing renderer check box, located just above the Use overlays check box.

If you can restore the missing video by doing something like maximizing the Player or putting another window in front of it, there may be a problem with your video card driver. For more information about this issue, see the question, "Why do I lose video after a few seconds of playing?" in the Media Advice archive.

A really helpful information, thanx gamejunkie ;-) I've tried several ways to find how to make a screenshot of media player but with no result, now it works fine !!

Thanks a lot for the tip. I tried capturing a screen once and it didn't work, so I resorted to using DivX.

the program Power DVD 6 does it easier and better. Excellent media with image enhancements, get it for $ or if you have DC++ program and go to a public hub you could do a trial version before you buy it...cough cough

But then the video quality turns bad.

I use fraps. www.fraps.com