How the heck do I do a screen capture on Real Player

[Elgin Clock]

I've tried just doing a "print screen" by using that key, next to scroll lock, but when I do it all I get is a black screen in the realplayer frame.

ARGHHHHH!!!

How do I do this right????

[Clark Gilbert]

You need to download a screen capture program.......i used to have one...but now i cant remember than name of it....

EDIT:

You need a program like Hyper Snap

http://www.hyperionics.com/index.asp

[Greg Ross]

Originally posted by Elgin Clock
I've tried just doing a "print screen" by using that key, next to scroll lock, but when I do it all I get is a black screen in the realplayer frame.

ARGHHHHH!!!

How do I do this right????

I don't know why it didn't work for you. I was able to do a PrtScr (actually I did Alt+PrtScr which captures only the active window instead of the entire screen) and then paste it into Windows Paint.

[Joe Ross]

It has to do with the way that real player outputs the video to the screen and the way that the screen capture captures it. I had it explained to me once, and it made sense then, but I can't remember it all now.

What you need to do is to turn off the optimized video display in real player. This is in the preferences/hardware section in Real One. I remember seeing a similar setting somewhere in the older Real Player.

[Ben Mitchell]

i think the program is called

Hypersnap DX (or something like that)

Im pretty sure its freeware

Hope this helps

[Joe Matt]

All video players use a black screan to "project" on. If you took a picture of a movie screan at your movie theater (with flash on) you would see the screan, if any of the film. So when you screan capture on a new player, it will show that. I tried it with my PowerDVD player, it didn't work. ]

[Elgin Clock]

ughhhh Don't even get me started on Power DVD, it crashes constantly on my computer!

[Joe Matt]

I got a new computer, but it keeps locking me out of movies that are rated! I can't even see a "G" Rated movie!

[patrickrd]

On a similar note, does anyone know of any tools that will allow me to "record" a portion of a realaudio stream and save it as an MP3 or similar common format? I would like to save our matches from NYC so I can have them to use in future promos, etc...

--or-- Does anyone know where I can get a video copy of NYC?

Thanks,
Patrick

[Elgin Clock]

Don't you mean MPEG instead of MP3? I think MP3 is only for audio. MPEG is for video along with AVI, RAM, QT and such!

As for recording, I have no idea, I think there is some way to hook up your computer to your tv/vcr and record it that way but again, I have never tried that either; why bother on a dial up connection where the video sucks most of the time anyways.

[Wetzel]

vcr/ why not just use your hd?
Only 4.6 meg or so a minute at 80kbps. 281 meg a hour.
At the 220kpbs I was usally at it would be 12.8 meg a minute and 773 meg an hour.
Nice cable modem. Large harddrive. Why bother with a vcr?
Now...to find a program to record a realvideo stream...