Capturing stills/ screen captures

MyTVandTwo · Postby **MyTVandTwo** » 15 Mar 2005 22:36

I know this has been asked before, but how can I take screen captures. Like you can with the BS player (ctrl+p). I have read previous answers to this question, but I still dont get it. Do I need a new version or build or something. Um, you may have to check back here incase I still don't get it. Sorry. Thanks to anyone who can help.

markfm · Postby **markfm** » 15 Mar 2005 22:43

It's been around for a while, but if you have a Mac or Windows the nightly builds get you the latest functionality.

While playing a video, do a Ctrl S, else select Video -- Snapshot from the menu.

(If you're using the skins interface, it's something like rightclick inside the video, then select Video -- Snapshot)

guess69 · Postby **guess69** » 16 Mar 2005 05:17

i know i read most of what ppl have said and its all so comfusing i use VLC media player 0.8.1 and i can;t ctrl s or whatever and i have no option of pressing snapshop all i want is the screen to stay still so i can copy and paste but it won't ever work anyone can give a decent answer clearly we woud be grateful

Mankel · Postby **Mankel** » 16 Mar 2005 21:10

Hi! I had that same problem and I lost my nerves many times trying to figure out way to take screenshot that would work.
I think that this isn´t the best way to do it ( I dont use VLC at all), but it´s worth of try

I used the VirtualDubMod to open the videofile (I dont know what kind of video file you´r trying to play, but lot of them work in this program), and runned it to the spot that i wanted to take the snapshot and then i just went to Video, and Snapshot source frame or output frame (I dont remember which it was) and saved it at bmb format and had a nice little snapshot of the video.
This is just my way to do it, but it worked for me

MyTVandTwo · Postby **MyTVandTwo** » 17 Mar 2005 03:36

I dont know what a nighty build is.

I probably should have said that before. I use windows. And the file I want captures from is a OGM file. Any other file would work in BSplayer and I could just do it with that.
Please help me out..... again. TY

The DJ · Postby **The DJ** » 17 Mar 2005 22:59

nightly builds are nightly build versions of the current VLC development version (unstable unreleased code). they are available here: htttp://www.videolan.org/~videolan

and you could have found that by searching the forums

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