Screen capping an AVIs ass.

[Kinoko]

Can someone please tell me an easy, no fuss way to take screencaps of an avi file? What I'm getting at the moment is that annoying thing where it just screencaps a blank hole. I remember there was sme method of getting around this but I can't remember what.

Sorry for the lack of detail, I'm not sure what else to say.

Thanks!

[BOYD1981]

players such as VLC (www.videolan.org) have a screen capture function and most video editing software does too.

[Chicky]

If you disable hardware acceleration in the advanced display properties settings i do believe you can screencap video, not sure if it works with avi tho.

[m0ds]

Open the avi file in media player, Minimize everything on your desktop, maximize media player, click an unused area of your desktop so that the avi is effectively "behind" or unselected, then ALT + PRNT SCREEN to capture and paste it into your paint program.

I get this trouble a lot, but its just a matter of making sure the avi file isn't right on top. Hope that helps & works!

edit - okay I just tried that and its not working for me now either :p

[fred]

You can use AVI to MPEG converter for this kind of thing - it will save any range of your video's frames to bitmaps. Downside: you can only use it 30 times for free - but hey, you might even decide you like it and pay the 30 bucks :-)

Free 30-times trial version for download here

[Haddas]

BSPlayer also comes with a screencap tool. both for original resolution and a "what you see" option. and they're automatically saved to a set folder.

[evenwolf]

Quicktime allows screen captures.

[Krysis]

BSPlayer also comes with a screencap tool. both for original resolution and a "what you see" option. and they're automatically saved to a set folder.

And if your "print screen" button (for some reasone) doesn't work you can use "P". Cool, isn't it...Ã, 
Anyway I love BSPlayer

Oh,Ã,  does anyone have an idea what the "scroll lock" button does?

[CaptainBinky]

Oh,Ã,  does anyone have an idea what the "scroll lock" button does?

It used to er, lock scrolling in text screens back in the DOS days. But it doesn't have a function anymore. You can still code for it though.

[InCreator]

I use BSPlayer for this. But printscreen always works too.
Point is, why do you need a screencap and from where? Something  encoded down to XVid or WMV rarely gives a shot with any quality.

Random video editing tool should also give the option (Premiere, Vegas are what I know for sure)

[LGM]

Windows Movie Maker also takes screenshots.

[Kinoko]

Thanks everyone! Sorry for the late reply. Since I'm a big user of VLC player, I just used that and it seems to have worked fine ^_^

However, just out of curiosity, I plan on checking out BSplayer after work.

InCreator: Well, I'm using it to get pictures for making 100x100 icons, so the quality can, in all honesty, be as shit as it likes and it'll still look good in the end In case anyone cares about my nerdish/fangirl tendancies, I'm making the Ultimate LJ Icon - an animated gif of 320 Sanjis XD (a character from a show/comic called One Piece). Though... for actual use, I will have a much smaller icon of about 32 pictures. In any case, this is what I've spent my week doing. Watching all the episodes on youtube and screen capping anything I want. There are some eps I only have as avi files though so when I got to them, I realised good ol' PSP F11 wasn't gonna cut it anymore.