Puzzeled by Print Screen from Mpeg

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"Nottoman" <nottoman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm watching an mpeg video of my son and I pause it at a very humorous
> part,
> hit Print Screen, paste it into Paint and there it is. I save it, but
> later
> when I open it, it's blank. What's up with that? Several attempts later
> lead me to believe that as soon as the source video is closed, the image
> is
> gone. Workaround to this?
>

I find that it's best to use the capture feature of the player
you are using. I watch MPEG files in PowerDVD most of
the time, but most other DVD/media players have a capture
feature. I take three captures, the frame before and the one
after, I try to use a "P" frame when I can.

If you have VideoReDo handy that does a good frame
capture too.

Luck;
Ken