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One of the most frequent questions I receive is "How do I capture a screenshot from a video or DVD?" Most video players will let you do it by disabling hardware acceleration, but two freeware players make it easy as pie.

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by lilyluna December 5, 2007 5:57 PM PST
I am Chinese and haven't tried VLC. Usually I use Baofeng(Storm) Yingyin, a chinese software to get screenshot. It's also free and easy.
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by charyannamayya December 5, 2007 9:21 PM PST
good one ...very interesting

thanks
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by xtrasico December 6, 2007 5:14 AM PST
What happened to the old faithful "prt sc" button on all PC's? You can pause movies with your favorite dvd player (any player actually), press the print screen button and do a paste into your favorite image software. Easy, free, fast. If this is too much work for you, you don't belong near a pc... unless you grab thousands of pictures, which will turn it into a nightmare. That's my opinion because that's the way I have always done it, with all due respect. Good day.
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by walto19 December 6, 2007 10:28 AM PST
In VLC preferences, on mine, anyway, there is an item "Video". It has a line: "Video snapshot directory" with a Browse Button. Maybe it will work....
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by Steve Trappasse December 7, 2007 8:36 AM PST
Ever hear of ZDSOFT video capture . when i download it , says over and again, failed to initialize driver or something like this , and I tried again and again , but it wont work. I have had it working in the past. But not since my clean install of Vista and format of c;/drive. Can you help . Does this VLC record and play whole videos or just screen shots. Doesnt pritnscreen do the same thing >? THANKS
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by Steve Trappasse December 7, 2007 8:38 AM PST
printscreen, paint , ctrl V , file , send
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by amanulla December 7, 2007 8:30 PM PST
The real software to make a screen shot from DVD
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by BMENON December 8, 2007 7:40 AM PST
I find that KMPlayer is a better choice for capturing video or movie scenes while playing--see my review given in http://
www.download.com/The-KMPlayer/3640-2139_4-10659940.html?sb=1&v=0
Gadwin & other screen capturing devices give the photo of the full-screen including the background,titlebar etc. while KMPlayer gives the photo of a particulr scene of a video or movie as it is, without any player or screen background or controlbar.
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by zornot December 8, 2007 5:44 PM PST
VLC has been stuttering quite a bit lately, and doesn't do SWF (does anything? [irfanview may, I hear, but I don't care for it]).

I have just tried camtasia in an ongoing attempt to convert powerpoint to video. It captures slides, transitions and animation so-so, but video clips not only do not record, but it deletes them from the powerpoint!

Anyone found anything that works short of re-creating the whole thing in a video editor?
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by moha1984 December 10, 2007 1:05 AM PST
hi every body i want good antivirus free please
thanks to every body working in c net
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by lugamin December 13, 2007 10:42 AM PST
Quack Player is best at capturing video frames and it's also free. You simply click a button and it's done!
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by k-shaft December 13, 2007 11:35 PM PST
I have used many DVD capture tools and InterVideo WinDVD is by far the simplest, most straight forward DVD Player and capture program available. All you have to do is hit the 'P' key on your keyboard and the program brings up a capture window. You can do this many times to capture different images and all of them will be listed in this new window as thumbnails. Then, by double clicking on the thumbnail, you can enlarge the image to preview it and decide if you want to save it. If you do, press the save button and it saves to the file folder, you selected in the OPTIONS screen. If you don't like it, just press the delete button to delete it from that screen. You can also press 'Delete All' or 'Save All'. And playing DVDs with this program is also incredibly simple. It even remembers were you stopped each individual DVD. Overall, an incredibly awesome and useful program. I love it.
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