whats a good free program guys? mspaint aint cutting it no more :(

Gimp is a fairly decent image editor

thanks i'll give it a shot

hmm its wierd you see i pause the movie, then screen cap and paste but the image kind of like stays where ever the player is is on the desktop and if i close the player all i get is a black square instead. sorry hard to explain

Don't you just love it? NOT

I think I used vlc

yep i tried thru VLC, I went video -> snapshot but no files were appearing in the directory i set them up to save to =(

ahh never mind i just had to restart vlc and its working now cheers kat

Use Fraps, then you can cap stills and video how you like.

I use windows media player classic.
1: open dvd
2: pause
3: file -> save image
4: ???
5: profit

hmm its wierd you see i pause the movie, then screen cap and paste but the image kind of like stays where ever the player is is on the desktop and if i close the player all i get is a black square instead. sorry hard to explain

Funniest post in ages, thanks for this.

it's something to do with overlays being teh gay

you can disable them but that's also teh gay

LOL, what the fuk do i know about this kind of stuff

ya bastads

just use mpc look here's one I just took
http://home.iprimus.com.au/whoop/snapshot20060821213427.jpg
unless you're trying to capture moving pictures then use VLC and stream the output to an mpeg file, open it up in virtualdub, select the part you want & save as avi or whatever, or you could also stream it to mpeg, open in vdub, select part of it and save each frame and get your screen cap that way but I prefer just using MPC for screencaps.

I can't see it whoop, it's just a black square :S

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g95/neda85/chickens.jpg

weeeeeeeee