# Making screenshots

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-screenshots/184804>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 27, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-screenshots/184804 "2003-06-27T18:21:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bubba\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bubba\_Ray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubba_Ray)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-screenshots/184804/1 "2003-06-27T18:21:01Z")

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I have the following problem, I just cant make any screenshots of movies that I play on my computer, neither from the windows media player nor quicktime, realplayer or vidomi. I tried the usual print screen and inserting into paint as well as several free/shareware screencapper that all only gave me a blank screen as result. Same happens when I try to make screenshots from my DVDs. Anyone knows a solution, or workaround for that problem.

P.S. It occurs me that this question could scrape on the border to copyright issues for said media, if thats a problem please close/delete the thread.

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**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-screenshots/184804/2 "2003-06-27T20:19:54Z")

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this was covered here and I believe the answer was ’ can’t make it happen, sorry '.

search…Was within past 90 days.

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**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-screenshots/184804/3 "2003-06-27T20:28:34Z")

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It’s been a while since I did this, but IIRC I stepped through the film frame by frame until I got one I wanted, then successfully copied it using Paintshop Pro. Sorry, can’t remember any more than that. I know I was never able to take a screen dump of a _moving_ film though.

Julie