Taking Screen Shots of Xvids

[Kipin]

Alright, I'm sure I'll recieve alot of flak for posting such a simple question, but I need an answer. What is the best or easiest way to get a screenshot of an xvid (or for that matter any avi)?

[Ark]

Save frame function in VDub (you have to make an in and an out point of the frame you want to save)

or

when you're watching your movie on a player or in VDub, do Alt+Print then Ctrl+V in Paint(or other graphic software), save.

EDIT: welcome to the forum :)

[Kipin]

Thanks, I probably should have specified that I'm not encoding. I want to take a screen shot of an already encoded xvid. Windows built in print screen takes it as being black, unless you turn off hardware acceleration but in that case there still is a fair amount of blurring going on. Media Player Classic has a screen shot function, but doesn't do full screen.

[Ark]

If you have it, you can open the xvid in VirtualDub, then make print-screen.
It works because video is rendered in a different way from DirectShow players...

[saratoga]

Disable overlay rendering in your graphics driver, or tell MPC to use a rendering mode that does not use overlay. I've read that theres a performance hit for doing this, but I doubt its major.

[akupenguin]

Originally posted by saratoga
Disable overlay rendering in your graphics driver, or tell MPC to use a rendering mode that does not use overlay. I've read that theres a performance hit for doing this, but I doubt its major.
My benchmark: (playing an average XviD at 720x480x24fps, on an Athlon 1.8GHz)
with overlays costs 18% cpu
without overlays costs 30% cpu
fullscreen without overlays costs 72% cpu
(I'm using MPlayer, not MPC, but the point should still stand)

Of course, if you're just doing it to take screen-shots and not to really watch a movie, it shouldn't matter.

[therealjoeblow]

Originally posted by Kipin
Alright, I'm sure I'll recieve alot of flak for posting such a simple question, but I need an answer. What is the best or easiest way to get a screenshot of an xvid (or for that matter any avi)?

ZoomPlayer

<ALT> F
-Captures screenshot as .BMP
-Works with anything that ZP can play (ie. if you have the filters installed, it can take a screencap

[Numer0bis]

If u use Gabest Media Player Classic there is a nice little function under File --> Save Image.

greetz Numer0bis

[pjotor]

Or you could try framefiskaren (http://www.angelfire.com/mech/pjotor/framefiskaren.zip).