grabbing a screenshot from an mpeg
 

wmp seems to block this, is there another simple viewer that I can grab screenshots with?

Sure just play it to the point you wan ta screen sho tof, pause it, get your Polaroid out, take a picture, scan it, bingo. Screen shot.

Jimmy's on a roll tonight!:1orglaugh

There's a couple of ways, get Vegas Video 3.0 from Sonic Foundry. It makes it easier than any other utility I've used. You can also do it with the stuff you have but there's an accelleration setting you have to shut down on Windows Media in order to capture video stills through Print Screen or whatever you are using.

Choices: design a stupid contraption made of structural steel cables that will hold a 5,ooo kilo load at 1500 meters or fuck around on GFY...

Have you tried turning your graphics card acceleration to none?
Screenshots work for me everytime now.

I had the same problem. All I do is get the movie to the part I want the shot of, click the "show desktop" icon in the quick start menu to minimize all windows, then open the movie player again, and it worked fine.

www.hypersnap.com

download the version 3, and get a free week trial... its worth the purchase if you do alot of video stuff.

Go to enable special effects under capture settings, check both directx check marks... go to the clip... press print screen on your keyboard, go back to hypersnap and its right there, save it as a bmp or jpg.

That help? =)

SnagIt is perfect for getting shots from movies, games, whatever you want. Works great.
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Jimmy - I prefer 35mm (better quality) than run 24 hour photo development service... then scanning... etc... :)

if you have quicktime pro, you can export out frames from pretty much all video types. 30 bucks or so.

mac junky!

download virtualdub
open the mpeg with it and hit a screenshot like before with print screen.
paste the image to paint or photoshop and you have the best possible screenshop available :-)

Snag it and hupersnap can capture it too, but the result will be of lower quality compared to my way.

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With any of these programs can you pull out frame by frame from the videos?

Magic Media ++, you can get it from download.com - I have been happy with the results I get from the program - plus you can select which frame you want to export from the movie - as well batch a whole folder of files !

with snag-it it's matter of luck to find the correct frame,if you pause the movie most of the times will return a blank screen. Hypersnag it is a bit better. The way I described is the best I have found so far for mpeg/avi files. You can select any frame you want.

I'll have to take a look at Magic Media ++, it sounds interesting program.

with qt pro, no problem. jog through until you see a frame you want, then export. you can get at every single frame in a given file. it also produces very high quality grabs (relative to your source file).

and soul, qt pro is available for windows too ;)

*tsk*Tsk* All you need to do is to turn "Overlay" off in your WMP. Then you can take all the screenshots you like with Ctrl+PrintScreen