Taking snapshots of movies.

[Shoeberto]

Is there any practical way of doing this? You'd really think that they'd have a snapshot button in the media viewers to do this at this point. Anyway, I've got some anime I want to take snapshots of, and obviously print screen doesn't work. I use DivX Player.

[crono_logical]

Effectively, you want to disable Overlay rendering, since you can only NOT take snapshots of video when it renders in Overlay mode, which is usually the default mode as it's the fastest. I don't know if that player has that particular option, but disabling hardware acceleration temporarily and reloading the video will have the same effect.

There are alternate media players you can use, like Media Player Classic here which will allow you to use something other than Overlay (you can set it in Options > Playback > Output here, VMR9 Windowed if you have DirectX9 installed, or the one of the two Renderless modes will work nicely for screenshots here). This media player does have a saving images function too, but again, you have to be not using Overlay, just the same as for normal screenshots.

Or get VirtualDubMod, a simple video editor, and use the copy functions in the edit menu, which will copy specific frames to clipboard such that you don't need to do any cropping afterwards to remove the media player's window or whatnot.

[Big Ogre Umaro]

If you're REALLY desperate, use regular old Windows Media Player 9 (Classic doesn't work) and hit Ctrl+I.

[Naruto]

If you have a fairly recent version of Windows Media Player. Use that and do the following:

Select Tools > Options

then go to the Performance Tab

Decrease Video Acceleration to "None"

Then you should be able to use Print Screen

hold alt and press Print Screen just to make sure that it gets copied into the clipboard.

Hope this helps

- Naruto-kun