What is the best program to take screenshots of movies?
 

as in capture directdraw, opengl etc

PSP 6 or 7, or theGimp


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yeah

printscreen

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print screen doesnt work for movies, dont have psp, gimp doesnt do it either

right click, select properties, settings, advanced, troubleshoot, and turn acceleration all the way down. now, play the vid and use printscreen. then open photoshop/paint shop pro and ctrl_v or paste.

Pause the movie, minimize, then restore...then printscreen will work--for me anyway

any others that work for all file types?

easy: that only sometimes works

Ahh..that is the only one I could find that works well with AVI's.
I don't know about mpeg's or wmv's.

Have you thought of trying a video editing program like the ones coded by Ulead? I am sure they will batch capture frames, I don't know how to do it, though.

http://www.ulead.com/vs/runme.htm

Use wmp and turn off hardware acceleration.

option 2, open the file twice with 2 video players and then make a screenshot.

I use http://www.hypersnap.com for captures.

isnt there any software to be able to do this?
there has to be

Windows/XP Moviemaker 2 !

works for me everytime....

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