SRL Archive - Computer Help and Tutorials

Hey guys, did you know that you can watch movies in paint ? But u can't do anything (Just watch it while its playing in Media Player Classic, winamp or any other movie player you use.

Here's what you gotta do :

1.Open your favourite movie player and play the move (I played the .avi, format in Media Player Classic) (.mpg also works)

2.Hit "PrintScreen", keep playing the movie in the player, don't stop it.

3.Open MsPaint.

4.Select "Edit > Paste" Or Hit "CTRL+V"

You can watch movies in Paint!

But there are no Pause, Next, Previous, Stop etc. buttons

Experiment with other formats too, it doesn't play DivX , Flash movies

lawl awesome. i didn't test but sounds like fun :)

EDIT:
- it works lol. nice found ;)

- i can paint while playing 2 ^^

lol if this really works, thats awesome!

Wow nice!

Yup just tried, worked. Lol kind of funny.

Its working. Lol. So what if i want screen from movie? xD

Wait, so is this creating a .GIF movie with animation in paint?


Man… This could be valuable.

The memory size of your computer would limit recording time, but an interesting thing anyway.

Couldn't get it to work for me.

lol i thought there was just something wrong with my dads computer when i did that -.- pretty cool though

I've done it before…
Copy and paste the actual footage across the entire canvas

Yup pretty cool :D

works very nicely, great find

Ahaha it is kinda funny! Just looks odd, I tested it on a Harry Potter movie and it is like the moving newspapers.

sick ive never done this before and its cool

That is amazing, it would be quite a nice way to confuse computer illiterate people.

wow, everything great is so simple…

it doesn't make a gif / record the image, it pretty much puts a hole straight through the paint window in the area of the screenshot that the movie would be in, if you move the paint window arround, the border arround the movie's actual area in the screenshot will cut off the movie.

Ahahahahahah thats awsome I have to show this to my intotech teacher lol

HAHA Thats so awesome!

haha this is awesome, thanks!

nice. this works awesome lol, i can paint on people >:)

The reason this works is that most media players use hardware acceleration. When you press Print Screen, Windows can not save the current video frame into a static bitmap picture because WMP, not Windows, is accessing a section of video memory directly. Instead, when you take a screenshot, Windows returns a handle to the original video memory in your media player. When you paste the screenshot into Paint or any other picture editting program, the program accesses the handle to draw whatever is there. This means that no matter what you draw over the "video" area in Paint, it will still show the video. If the video changes, Paint will update the picture. If the media player is closed or if you save and re-open the file, you will see a black rectangle in the place where the video should be.

When I first found out about this, I did not think it was cool at all. I was trying to screenshot a frame from a movie and then save it as a file.. but couldn't do so. I ended up disabling hardware acceleration in WMP to get a screenshot >_<

I once did this accidentally when watching a pk vid.

Thanks, but pretty useless :D

LOL, it works =DDD

Lol, pretty cool. How did you find that out?

so need 10 post count?leecher?:mad:

Lol yea i noticed that for about 14 months ago, i tryed to print screen a movie, nad then i coud paint on the movie! ^^ its kewl! :D

l0lzerz i remeber doing this i was lik 6, havent done it since then :/ dose it still work to like draw on the pic?:p

You could watch Movies on Paint, cause the Movie is copyrighted, so the picture will be a "video with you paste it on Paint.

Lol Thes cool, didnt know about that…

Also works with the 65536 or w/e color that surrounds most of the item borders on rs.

hehe didnt know

lmao! That's cool. For some odd reason my sound didn't work. Maybe it's my comp though…

Yep that works - ill post a quick snippet of whats going on…

When taking a screen shot your cp does not only take a screen shot, it also has a code of what you have on your task bar.

And with a movie such as like James bond it has encoded that it is a "moving file" which makes it move, and remember how i said it takes a code of what it has on your task bar, well it keeps playing!

From: c0de
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay

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Thank you. I was starting to worry - people on a scripting website being fooled by such a simple trick…

:duh:

Old stuff…

IMO that was so damn annoying when I tried to get a screenie from a movie… :P:P

i don't think you're actually playing it in paint, i think that paint just can't take a screenshot of the movie so it shows through it like a hole. If you move paint around the video won't move with it… I tried this when i was trying to printscreen a video


EDIT: oh ok sorry i didn't read all the posts

Wow thats awsoume now i can watch simpsons movie and paint spider pig at same time.

yeah, i figured this out a while back when i tried to take a picture of a video and save it as a jpeg. Doesnt work, but hey, you can watch videos in paint. haha

Heh, wtf? Is this some kind of bug with MSPaint, cause this is about the coolest thing I've seen since Excel had Flight Simulator hidden on it.

Doesnt work for me :S Maybe because the film?

Hillarious thats awsome really works!

From: Zeke1901
Heh, wtf? Is this some kind of bug with MSPaint, cause this is about the coolest thing I've seen since Excel had Flight Simulator hidden on it.

Do tell. :rolleyes:

It only works if you have a OpenGL or Direct3D graphic card that supports video rendering. Because then your GFX card will use a video layer, which you can print screen and paste anywhere. You will still see the video playing after pasting.

If you don't have a GFX card that supports video rendering, your computer will render the images without using a video layer. You won't be able to see videos in paint then.

Loooll! awesome!

this works perfectly exalent find

So cool,man nice find
it actually works….:)

thats pritty oober

Omg this is awsome!

I have Vista, doesn't work for me. :mad:

From: xfire
I have Vista, doesn't work for me. :mad:

Same, I'm using VLC and a .avi, must not work in Vista.

That is some pretty sweet stuff, would have never thought of doing that.

Watching and drawing the film at one time! :p

LOLLLLLL I never knew this would work :o

From: xfire
I have Vista, doesn't work for me. :mad:

Same here, 32-bit.

From: mariofan12
Omg this is awsome!

wow…7 month gravedig…

Lol this allways happened to me, but now i got vista xD. when trying to print screens of bike movies.

Wow. Never in my 'RIGHT' Mind would I have ever thought about watching a DVD On MS-Pain. Nice find.

~Pwnt

It works sweet lol

lol…
its awesome!
but i cant take a image to edit!

the most awesomely pointless thing ever THIS WINS !!
thanks for posting xD

not working for me…. this been tried on vista and does the movie need to be in full screen or what? im only getting a screen cap like usually…

Sweet! second best thing to happen to me!

it doesnt work for me, everytime it happens MSpaint just freezes up

From: itz over 9000
Sweet! second best thing to happen to me!

What is the first?

This works for me. I wonder if I can get DVDs from blockbuster and save them on my PC. :rolleyes:

Yeah i found this out while trying to get a screenie of a movie as well… I was aggrovated >:(
But I didn't find out until after I had saved the file, then opened it up later… as it played what was currently playing, (I had switched movies… and it showed the new movie when I opened the file. :p)
This isn't the EXACT story… but the exact story is a little more embarrassing XD pm for details.

/!?!?? i thought everyone knew this?!!?!?!? wow …. well i knew it for ever, because i used to want to take screenies from movies. the video_ts folders on dvds have blocks on this because they dont want u to recapture frame by frame. if u want a screenie u need to get special software….however theres obviously a bunch of free stuff

my fav for everything is VLC

at vlcmedia.com or somthin

it can take screenies….

Just annoying when trying to take screen :D