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How to make a print screen from a movie playing in Windows Media Player

Posted on September 17, 2009

It seems that is not easy to grab a screen shot from a playing movie on a PC, when you’re using Windows Media Player.

In BSPlayer is very simple: press Shift + P or simple P and you will get saved all your movie print screens into the BSPlayer directory, usually here C:\Program Files\ACE Mega CoDecS Pack\BSPlayer\ in this form: bscap000.jpg, bscap001.jpg, etc.

The problem is the Video Card, the hardware acceleration which makes practically impossible for a movie to be captured into a print screen (remember this is applied only to WMP) . A similar situation is in photography where it’s very hard or impossible to catch the cyclist into a shot because of the speed of the action.

What we can do in both situations is to slow down the action and to make it “printable” on our screen. In computers we have to refer to the video hardware acceleration.

Here are the steps to be followed:

1 – Open Windows Media Player
2 – Go to Tools > Options > Performance
3 – click on “Video Acceleration“, drag the slider to none
4 – Click Apply and then OK
5 – Restart WMP if it’s not restarting by itself.
6 – Open the movie you want to take a screenshot of, fast forward to the place that you want one of, then click Print Screen button.
7 – Open MS Paint / Adobe PhotoShop, Corel Paint or whatever program you are thinking to use and paste it.
8. You should have now the printscreen of the movie.

A second method is referring to Overlays:

1. Open Window Media Player
2. Go to Tools > Options
3. In Options, click on Performance Tab
4. Click on the Advanced Button
5. Uncheck “Use Overlays”

Don’t forget to roll back the changes when you’re done :)

Click Ok

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