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michael_m91
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O.P. Print Screen
Why when i do a print screen does it not show... like here

I take a print screen of my whole screen, and when i paste it into paint everything is there except whe im running a video in window media player, the part where the video should be is black

why does this happen?

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01-08-2006 05:46 PM
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RE: Print Screen
it has happened to me before.  i dont know why it does that but when i upgraded to windws xp when u prnt screen with a movie playing in wmp and paste in paint the movie will keep playing.  i think that it only came out black in paint if u were watching the movie in full screen.  if the movie is windowed it should paste correctly in paint.
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01-08-2006 06:21 PM
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RE: Print Screen
why it's black:
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The explanation is if you have harware acceleration enabled, all rendering of the movie is done on your graphics card. When you do a screen capture, it gets what is in the screen buffer before it is sent to the graphics card, so that data isnt there yet. If you turn acceleration off, the movie is forced to be rendered by software and is so in the screen buffer before it is sent to the gfx card and hence can be captured.

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1. Right-click the desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshooting > Hardware acceleration: None
Bypass graphics card

2. Press the print screen key on your keyboard.
Saves the entire desktop as an image to the clipboard.

3. Paste into your favourite graphics editor. Even paint will do.
Now you can see what was saved. From here you can do what you like with it, saving might be a good idea wink.gif

4. Right-click the desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshooting > Hardware acceleration: Full (or whatever it was beforehand)
Return graphics settings back to normal

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01-08-2006 06:37 PM
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RE: Print Screen
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That is how you can solve the problem, but it will make all your videos laggier than counterstrike source on a 286 :p If you really need to, i'd suggest getting a video player that can properly capture pictures from a video like VLC.
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01-08-2006 06:43 PM
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O.P. RE: Print Screen
Thankyou so much for you help guys

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01-08-2006 07:32 PM
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RE: Print Screen
i use fraps if i want to screenshot a video...

because of the different overlay settings and stuff making the normal way not work:(

This post was edited on 01-08-2006 at 08:52 PM by M73A.

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