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I went to your FAQ and found the answer, but I'm confused.

Under Windows, add the --nooverlay option to the command line and use Prt Sc button to put a screenshot on your pasteboard. You can then paste this picture in a picture editor or a Word document or something.

Where is the option to the command line? That's the part I don't get. Help!

Just go into the preferences->video

Make sure you set the "Advanced options" setting.

I'm using the lastest version and I can't find that in Video.

Look better it's there.

oooh! I see it..all the way in the corner. Thanks!

So I just check the advance option and that's it?

When you check the nooverlay option, make sure you Save.

Advanced options can also be set as a default. Settings -- Preferences -- General -- Interface. If you select Show advanced options, then Save, it will always open that way.

When you check the nooverlay option, make sure you Save.

Advanced options can also be set as a default. Settings -- Preferences -- General -- Interface. If you select Show advanced options, then Save, it will always open that way.

um...I'm confused...

hi, i'd like to generate thumbnails (i.e JPEG) of multicast in a playlist : this will make me able to have an HTML page to monitor several multicast. can vlc do that ?

I still don't get it. Please help!

OK, you want to take screen shots:
-Launch VLC with the wxwindows GUI
-Select Settings -- Preferences
-Check the Advanced options checkbox
-On the left of the preferences window, select General -- Settings -- Video
-On the right of the Prefs window, scroll down a bit and you'll see a checkbox for "Overlay video output". Clear that checkbox (you don't want to overlay), then press the Save button to store this choice.

You should now be able to take screen shots OK, using whatever your OS uses (e.g., the PrintScreen button on Windows). For example, on Windows I use PrtScn, then paste them into whatever program (open Paint, then do an Edit -- Paste), and save them from that program.

Yes, thank you! It worked.

I did so too, but it really wont work, the pic just "slips" away

A snapshot function (take a picture of the video display window) has been implemented in the development version of VLC. It can store the snapshots as either .png or .jpg files.

Under Windows, the resulting pictures are stored in My Documents\My Pictures, though the directory can be changed in Preferences (which is where you can change from .png to .jpg, if desired.)

The snapshot function is available in the nightly builds, for Mac, Win, BEOS. (It'll appear in the Linux distributions when the next release comes out, or you can do a build of VLC yourself)

Hi Hi~

Unfortunately, I saw this post a little too late--and am now using VLCplayer 0.82--for screenshots~!

It is a marked improvement (over that "hunt and search for overlay option") over 0.81, but there now seems to be a bug in the playlist maker option (improve one thing--something else has problem~)

Oh wellllllllll~

If you mention what the bug is, that would be good. The odds are that people know about it, but just in case...

I just wanted to say thank you for this. It worked great!
ToniAyniaNightFish...

OK, you want to take screen shots:
-Launch VLC with the wxwindows GUI
-Select Settings -- Preferences
-Check the Advanced options checkbox
-On the left of the preferences window, select General -- Settings -- Video
-On the right of the Prefs window, scroll down a bit and you'll see a checkbox for "Overlay video output". Clear that checkbox (you don't want to overlay), then press the Save button to store this choice.

You should now be able to take screen shots OK, using whatever your OS uses (e.g., the PrintScreen button on Windows). For example, on Windows I use PrtScn, then paste them into whatever program (open Paint, then do an Edit -- Paste), and save them from that program.

I think the bug in question is that it doesn't make playlists at all, just writes "#EXTM3U" to the file.

I tried the above but when ever i take a screen shot i get a black screen where the video should be.

I tried this as well, and it works, however.. when I play the video under non-full screen, it stretches side to side all the way, out of the bounds of the VLC window.

Kinda weird. Maybe its just my video driver, but it is uptodate.

Windows XP
Geforce 2 mx400 64meg (retro)
blah blah

Some Screenshots of what happens.

http://digitallywarped.mine.nu/vlc

as you can see, if something is layed over, its fine, that or if its dual audio, turning on a subtitle track corrects the problems as well.