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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by ~INVASION~
its because of a setting in most video players called video acceleration (...)

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has got nothing to do with it...

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Originally posted by ~INVASION~
(...) and the use of overlays with it

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You're right, but the first is usually implemented by utilising the second, so avoiding the first removes the need to use the second, which is the problem.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
To take screenshots of video or whatever shown in this special memory region, you need specialized software (see threads).

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In the case of playing video, hardware overlay can be disabled, and screenshots can be taken using the printscreen key.

Overlays can be disabled in Windows Media Player as shown below. To access the shown dialog; go to Menu > Tools > Options, and then on the performance tab of the Options dialog, click the button labelled Advanced ... in the video acceleration.



Alternatively, and more easily, some players have a "snapshot" feature, It takes a snapshot of whatever video it is currently playing. This can be saved to disk or be placed in the clipboard (to paste into an image manipulation program). Usually, it is taken in the size of the original video, even if you have stretched it to watch fullscreen, or in a smaller or larger window, however, there may be the option to make the snapshot in the size currently visible. PowerDVD and WinDVD both have this feature.