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I'm looking for a free program that takes screenies of DVDs or video clips when play them in Windows Media Player or computer DVD softwre.

A name will do, but links would be great.

Meh. I'm not sure if I can help you, but The GIMP does take screenies. You can also set it to take a screenshot after a certain amount of time in a certain window. It's kind of a pain to download and install just for screenshots. *shrugs* I'll give you the link anyways.

http://www.gimp.org

The Print Screen button never fails me, but you need to copy the picture into something else to be able to use it again.

for media files like .avi and stuff I use videoLAN player

http://www.videolan.org/

Thanks for the help everyone! I can take screenies now. Thankyou very much!

Try Wink. It is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc).

Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

Hmm I can't seem to get any of those to work Does anyone else have any suggestions?

Set Video Acceleration to None in the options, and screenshot like you normally do.

What proggie are you referring to? Video lan keeps resetting my com for some reason.. and I have the same problem of screen shotting videos in wink as I do normally i..e blank screen.,

Does this work for Windows Me?

http://www.virtualdub.org/

It's free, and it automatically takes screenshots from video files (it's made for AVIs but works with mpegs as well.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/ic ... 94545.html

And a wonderful tutorial for using it.

Windows media player.


Media Player != Windows. Should work if you have the latest version.

Crud, I have 9, last I checked. Would it still count even though I don't have 10, or no?

I'm pretty sure they kept that option throughout the whole 8-9-10 series. Should work -- try it.

Will do! Thanks HL.