If you have been using a PC for sometime, then you already might know that the Print Screen feature allows you to capture a snap shot of entire desktop. For those who doesn’t know, you can press on the “PrintScreen” button on your keyborad now and open a program like MS Paint or MS Excel and use the paste function (ctrl+v) to paste the screen shot of entire desktop. This function is very useful to take a screen shot of a website or a video.

How to use Print Screen to capture a video shot from windows media player?

I used to play the video in windows media player and simply press the PrintScreen button to capture a screen shot of the video. But that only worked in the earlier version. The new versions of windows media player (I am using version 11) is giving me a black space at the video area after the Print Screen shot is pasted in my favorite photo editor (photoshop). So I digged a bit to find out how can I solve the windows media player print screen problem. After searching on many forums and playing with many settings on media player I found that the video acceleration setting is the culprit. So here you go.

Open windows media player.
From the top menu choose, Tools>>Options
A new window with Option will open. In the Options window choose Performance tab.

Screen Shot

Under the Performance tab you can see Video acceleration. Click on Advanced.
Under the advanced Video Acceleration Settings, uncheck Use overlays. Click Ok and apply. You are ready to go.

Print Screen Video

You are all set. Enjoy your video screen shot with the push of a button (and paste) ;)