Windows Media Player Copying Images

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I am trying to take a screen shot of a short cartoon playing through
windows media player. I do the usual print screen thing but it doesn't
seem to be working properly. The image that I cut only appears as a
black box which acts like a window. As I move the black box around the
screen it shows a different part of the image.
Is there anyway I can get around this or does it sound like the film
has been protected in some way?
Thanks.


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technologyteach <rebecca_m_love@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>Is there anyway I can get around this or does it sound like the film
>has been protected in some way?

It will happen no matter what you are viewing in MP. You probably
need to find an editor for working with video files.
 
Movie Frame Grab - Batch capture pictures from videos Movie splitter and video
http://movie-frame-grab.qarchive.org/

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"technologyteach" wrote:

>
> I am trying to take a screen shot of a short cartoon playing through
> windows media player. I do the usual print screen thing but it doesn't
> seem to be working properly. The image that I cut only appears as a
> black box which acts like a window. As I move the black box around the
> screen it shows a different part of the image.
> Is there anyway I can get around this or does it sound like the film
> has been protected in some way?
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> technologyteach
>
 
"technologyteach" <rebecca_m_love@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I am trying to take a screen shot of a short cartoon playing through
> windows media player. I do the usual print screen thing but it doesn't
> seem to be working properly. The image that I cut only appears as a
> black box which acts like a window. As I move the black box around the
> screen it shows a different part of the image.
> Is there anyway I can get around this or does it sound like the film
> has been protected in some way?
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> technologyteach

Try running WMP full screen when capturing the screen shot.
 
"technologyteach" <rebecca_m_love@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> I am trying to take a screen shot of a short cartoon playing through
> windows media player. I do the usual print screen thing but it doesn't
> seem to be working properly. The image that I cut only appears as a
> black box which acts like a window. As I move the black box around the
> screen it shows a different part of the image.
> Is there anyway I can get around this or does it sound like the film
> has been protected in some way?
> Thanks.
>

That's because the video image is overlaid onto the correct part of your
desktop window in the graphics card. When you do a Print Screen, it copies
the memory image representing the desktop which does not include the video
overlay. There are viewers that permit screen capture. If the format of
your cartoon is comatible with one of them. Not knowing that format, I
can't offer any recommendation.
 
"Onsokumaru" <onsok-sama@ninja.village.jp> wrote:

>Try running WMP full screen when capturing the screen shot.
>
won't work
 
"Onsokumaru" <onsok-sama@ninja.village.jp> wrote:

>Try running WMP full screen when capturing the screen shot.

I forgot to ask: WHY do you think that would work? Did you even test
your hypothesis on your own machine to see if it worked?

NO.

So why did you even post the "solution" that you didn't even know
would work or not?
 
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