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Print Screen woes; or, my computer is haunted
scrivenerjones
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So I was attempting to take a screen capture from a movie, and the following undocumented behavior occurred:
1. Hit 'print screen' with Windows Media Player open. Screen contents are dumped to clipboard.
2. Open MS Paint (lol). Hit ctrl-v. Contents of clipboard are dumped to .jpg file.
3. Save .jpg file.
4. Close WMP.
5. Open .jpg file; discover that it's now showing my desktop with a blank WMP window.
To sum up: it seems that a .jpeg knows when I've closed the media player from which its contents were obtained, and is changing accordingly. This seems slightly crazy to me. Does anyone have a better explanation (some kind of creepy DRM thing, video card bug, whatever), and hopefully a way around the problem?
1. Hit 'print screen' with Windows Media Player open. Screen contents are dumped to clipboard.
2. Open MS Paint (lol). Hit ctrl-v. Contents of clipboard are dumped to .jpg file.
3. Save .jpg file.
4. Close WMP.
5. Open .jpg file; discover that it's now showing my desktop with a blank WMP window.
To sum up: it seems that a .jpeg knows when I've closed the media player from which its contents were obtained, and is changing accordingly. This seems slightly crazy to me. Does anyone have a better explanation (some kind of creepy DRM thing, video card bug, whatever), and hopefully a way around the problem?
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The easy way to let WMP allow you to use PRNTSCRN is to go to WMP's options and turn off hardware acceleration completely, or just overlays.
As an experiment, try capturing the screen again, and then move around your paste in MSPaint. You'll see the video image stay put.