taking mpeg screencaps?

[flippy]

i am very confused; don't know if i'm posting in the right forum!! :nerd: feel free to push me around. does anyone here know how to take screen captures of mpeg files? like the kind you play on windows media player (if you're a PC nut like me)... i tried pressing "print screen" but all i get is a dark window of nothing.

:crazy: please?

[DigitalPimp]

If you are on XP than you can take it into Windows Movie Maker and take screen caps from there. :)

[mlk]

ive searched and searched and searched and still no luck. It's got something to do with your graphic cards not going into RAM but directly playing to screen..

check these forums and troll for an answer (DVD screencap problem is the same as divX or mpg) www.Doom9.org

[kirupa]

In many cases, I found using a DVD Player such as PowerDVD has a built-in feature for taking screencaps from a DVD or MPEG file. Thor may know more about this though.

[Jasninder]

Download Jet Audio, play ur mpeg or dat files in it and it has an option to capture a screen shot or use this capturing utility, works for me.I pause it and then use it or release the mouse click at a point i want the screen catured (u ll understand when u use this utility)

[Jasninder]

file size is too big, it's just 140 kb :(

[mlk]

were can we d/l it ????

does it read divx too ?

[grimdeath]

just use your dvd player app it has a screenshot feature, power dvd has this as well as windvd or go here for more info

http://www.dvdrhelp.com

[flippy]

thanks guys!! thing is, my DVD programs gone whacko, and it isn't cooperating (it's powerDVD) and i'm on the archaic win 98... will try the divx thing though.

rocketh on!! many thanks, and more suggestions are welcome because i'm sooooooo lost. :)

[teet]

this isn't the best way to do it, but it works as long as you don't need a very big picture...

okay...i think this will work on windows 98. you just have to make sure you have "View as Webpage" selected on your folder view thingy (so the little preview screen to the left is there when you select an icon)...oh heck, this is too confusing...here's a screenshot of what i mean

-teet

[flippy]

hey friends!! sorry to drudge up this old piece of news, but i downlaoded that jet audio thing, like you suggested, but i think i'm a little too stupid to figure it out. ^^;;

how does one open a file in it? i'd really appreciate a heads up. danke!