Take a Screenshot within....VLC | Nero ?

Rollo Tamasi

Hi guys, i'm trying to capture a frame from a movie. I basically want to export one single image as a jpeg or something similar. I always thought you could do this with VLC but i can't find the option to do it. I have Nero Showtime aswell, i don't know if that function is in Nero thou.

Lump

Yuo can do it in VLC, go to the Video Drop Down and it's there - Click Snap Shot.

John

Rollo Tamasi

thats what i tought myself. But snap shot is not there.
On the video list i have
Video Track
FullScreen
Zoom
Dinterlace
Always on Top
Post Processing

No snap shot!

Duffman

Start vlc from a command line with the "--no-overlay" switch. Play the video normally. You will now be able to take screenshots with the prnt scrn key. Prnt scrn and paste into an image editor. It's that simple

so you would enter something like this in the run dialog:

c:\Program Files\VideoLAN\vlc.exe --no-overlay

Hope it helps.

Rollo Tamasi

thanks, but that doesn't allow me to take a proper screenshot.

Ruu_Old

I didnt used to have the Screenshot option in the video menu, but when i upgraded to the very latest version it showed up, what version have you got?

Rollo Tamasi

.8.1 , i remember seeing it before thou. i don't know what happened, and i'm pretty sure i had a similar option in nero before.

Duffman

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

thanks, but that doesn't allow me to take a proper screenshot.

I don't follow.

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

i'm trying to capture a frame from a movie. I basically want to export one single image as a jpeg or something similar

This is a JPEG screen grab, a frame from an episode of Lost that I just took from using the method I described above. It's at my desktop resolution too.. You could use it as a wallpaper.

Am I missing something?

The_g-man

Try downloading a program called fraps, very simple , just leave it open when watching your vid in vlc or mpc and press F10 to grab an image.