Video screenshots

Hi 4chan, how do you take screenshots of videos played on the computer? which program brings the best quality? also, is there any Photoshop tutorials that explains how I can clean up the image?

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WTFISTHISSHIT?
Just press ALT+PRINT and paste it somewhere.

You may need to disable that Video-acceleration-stuff though.

The video comes out black if i use print screen.

Most video players also have this built in; Video > Snapshot in VLC, File > Save Image in MPC...

>>4
As I said you have to disable video-acceleration.
You could also just use VLC as the poster above me suggests.

Or set your video player to not use Overlay.

>>1

sage for not obviously not using BSplayer.

>>8

are you an idiot? bsplayer is busted shit.

mplayer > *

Why does the container, which holds the video, "turn" blue when you take a screenshot of it?  Why can I take a screenshot of a video being played when I make my mplayer use openGL as a video output?  [I demand some answers! :-)]

>>11
It doesn't "turn" blue - it's blue to begin with. The blue box is there to indicate to DirectDraw the area the video occupies, and the video itself is added downstream of the display buffer. When you just hit the print screen key, the contents of the display buffer alone are copied to the clipboard, so you only get the blue (or grey, black, green, purple, etc. depending on the software) rectangle. If you're not using the hardware accelerated features of your card, the video is included in the contents of the display buffer (rather than after it), so you do get it when using print screen. However, you may notice a drop in performance when disabling the hardware accelerated features (duh) because you're taking stuff that's handled by the video hardware and making it the CPU's responsibility instead.

mplayer -vo x11
and you can take screenshots of it. maybe you add 'zoom=1' if you want to zoom while playing.