Media Player Screen Capture Conundrum

[aimav]

I have a user that requires the ability to take a screen capture from a video in WMP11. Hitting the print screen button and pasting into Paint just produces a black box.... doing the obvious Google searches on this problem yeilds many responses of turning Hardware Acceleration down to None or turning off the Overlay option. The problem with this is that doing so produces a black screen during video playback. The reason for this, I think, is that the workstations we have don't have any on board graphics processing and need a dedicated card before you can even hook them up to a monitor.

So does anyone know of another way around this? I'm trying to avoid using a different player (MPC or VLC) due to software restrictions on our network and it would have to be "tested and approved" blah blah blah... too much hassle just for one user!

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[fisheromacse]

If all you need is an image, try MWSnap.

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

If you want to capture video (although quality will vary) try Camstudio.

http://camstudio.org/