[1stPickPCHelp] Re: Capturing a still from an MPG file



Well, problem solved, but not without another key element. I tried your
suggestion of using SnagIt, Alan, but still had the same problem, but
SnagIt's web site was aware of my problem and had an FAQ addressing it.
Their solution, in part:

When Camtasia or SnagIt grabs a solid block of color instead of an image
which looks fine on the screen, the problem is usually due to graphics
hardware acceleration being used to display the image. The newer media
players from Microsoft and RealNetworks are good about trying to use any
graphics hardware acceleration that is available on the system. For
example, some systems have graphics hardware which can perform a
"hardware overlay" of video on the screen which bypasses the normal
Windows display memory that SnagIt captures. Most video capture programs
used to capture video from a video camera use "hardware overlay" by
default for their video preview. Note that this kind of problem effects
all screen capture programs, and even the image put in the clipboard by
the PrintScreen key. 

The best solution is to disable hardware acceleration in the application
that is playing the video, or disable hardware acceleration system wide.

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So, I disabled hardware acceleration in RealOne Player and then
everything worked fine. Indeed, once I had done that even the old
standby ALT-PrintScreen captured a still frame with no problem.

Thanks very much for the assistance, and I just want to share that extra
step I had to take to resolve the problem -- as others may encounter it
as well.  

-- Jim Reed

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Snagit, eh. I'll see if I can find it somewhere. Thanks for the
information, Alan.     -- Jim Reed
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Jim

I have just tried pausing a video image in WMP and copying the still
image using Snagit, saving the image as a JPG or BMP and pasting it into
MS Word and Irfanview. Works perfectly.

Alan


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