windows media player 9.0

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I am trying to capture a still image from an .avi video
clip. I pause the video then hit the printscreen key. I
then open wordpad to paste the image but I get a black
square where the video was. Can anyone help please?

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The player is probably writing the video directly to your
video card, whereas the desktop data is located elsewhere
in memory. Like Henley says, try another player.

>-----Original Message-----
>I am trying to capture a still image from an .avi video
>clip. I pause the video then hit the printscreen key.
I
>then open wordpad to paste the image but I get a black
>square where the video was. Can anyone help please?
>.
>

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To add to the advice:
http://www.zachd.com/pss/pss.html#screencap
explains how to do this in WMP. =)

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"Chris P." <cjp91068@msn.com> wrote in message
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>I am trying to capture a still image from an .avi video
> clip. I pause the video then hit the printscreen key. I
> then open wordpad to paste the image but I get a black
> square where the video was. Can anyone help please?

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Turn down video hardware acceleration for the duration of picture capture:
http://www.zachd.com/pss/pss.html#screencap

-Zach
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"razor" <razor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i am having the same problem no matter what program i use to play the
>video...no matter what program i use to capture all i get is a black square
>
> "Chris P." wrote:
>
>> I am trying to capture a still image from an .avi video
>> clip. I pause the video then hit the printscreen key. I
>> then open wordpad to paste the image but I get a black
>> square where the video was. Can anyone help please?
>>