Program to compare screen captures?

[surreal120]

This may be a really stupid question, but I've noticed that a lot of people in these forums (and the video codec shootouts) post screen captures from their source and their encoded video for comparison. I was wondering how people are making these screen captures. Is it just a matter of queuing up the video to the right frame in media player classic (or another player) and hitting printscreen? Or is there a program that will actually do this for you?

[CWR03]

ffdshow is what I use - Fraps will also taks a screenshot of any DirectX-rendered game or video.

[BigDid]

..Is it just a matter of queuing up the video to the right frame in media player classic (or another player) and hitting printscreen? Or is there a program that will actually do this for you?
In MPC, not printscreen but save picture(image) in .bmp or .jpg

Also possible in VdubMod in lossless format (not .bmp but ...?)

Did

[alexa0217]

I was wondering how people are making these screen captures. Is it just a matter of queuing up the video to the right frame in media player classic (or another player) and hitting printscreen? Or is there a program that will actually do this for you?

u can record the game with fastcap (http://www.ejoystudio.com) (captue OpenGL and DirectX games). u can record your game just by pressing your designed hotkeys! fastcap supports real time encoding. it is handy program on creating game movie for both newbies and pro gamers.

[jel]

if working with .vobs you can also use dgindex - seek to a frame - and save as bitmap - file > save as bitmap

[surreal120]

Wow, lots of options... Thanks!