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Old April 25th 12, 01:33 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Taking a sceen from a web page and using as a desktop



There is a web page that has a beautiful movie and I would like to
take a snapshot of a sceen in the movie and use it as a desktop.
The movie is running in Flash Player 11.2

Can that be done?
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Old April 25th 12, 02:11 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Taking a sceen from a web page and using as a desktop

Ed Cryer wrote:
wrote:


There is a web page that has a beautiful movie and I would like to
take a snapshot of a sceen in the movie and use it as a desktop.
The movie is running in Flash Player 11.2

Can that be done?


Sure! There are many free utilities that can do a frame save. But you
don't need one because you have Snipping Tool under Accessories.
Run the video, halt at the place you want, save with Snipping Tool.

Ed


And the developer here, thinks the Snipping Tool is quite potent,
in the sense that it cannot be stopped from capturing a frame from
a Flash movie. Initially, I was concerned that it wouldn't capture
Flash, but the OP in this thread seems to think it can.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6...-snipping-tool

I wonder if that includes all the various means of protecting Flash ?
There is at least one plugin, used for DRM reasons, which I thought
could be used to control Flash capture.

I guess we'll see, when the OP tests it.

One problem with extracting a single frame from a video, is
"motion blur". If the scene in the movie is static for a second,
the result shouldn't look that bad.

Paul
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Old April 25th 12, 10:38 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ed Cryer
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Paul wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
wrote:


There is a web page that has a beautiful movie and I would like
to take a snapshot of a sceen in the movie and use it as a
desktop. The movie is running in Flash Player 11.2

Can that be done?


Sure! There are many free utilities that can do a frame save. But
you don't need one because you have Snipping Tool under
Accessories. Run the video, halt at the place you want, save with
Snipping Tool.

Ed


And the developer here, thinks the Snipping Tool is quite potent, in
the sense that it cannot be stopped from capturing a frame from a
Flash movie. Initially, I was concerned that it wouldn't capture
Flash, but the OP in this thread seems to think it can.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6...-snipping-tool

I wonder if that includes all the various means of protecting Flash
? There is at least one plugin, used for DRM reasons, which I
thought could be used to control Flash capture.

I guess we'll see, when the OP tests it.

One problem with extracting a single frame from a video, is "motion
blur". If the scene in the movie is static for a second, the result
shouldn't look that bad.

Paul


I've just tried it out using a random youtube video.
I got it playing, chose full-screen size, stopped it,
snipped to desktop.
Then I opened it with irfanview (freeware) and that has the option to
set as wallpaper. But I edited it first with Irfanview because I'd
chosen full-screen snip and that contains taskbar.

Ed


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Old April 25th 12, 11:11 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:56:02 +0100, choro wrote:

PS. I prefer to use the freebie Irfan View which is far superior to Paint.



Just about any alternative is far superior to Paint. Paint has always
been terrible and remains so.

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Old April 26th 12, 12:14 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:11:04 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:56:02 +0100, choro wrote:

PS. I prefer to use the freebie Irfan View which is far superior to Paint.



Just about any alternative is far superior to Paint. Paint has always
been terrible and remains so.


Irfanview is fantastic and free. It can do editing up to and
including one-key color, brightness, and contrast correction. It can
control a scanner for single images or multiple-image TIFFs, and can
save in many, many formats. It's also quite fast.

http://www.irfanview.com/

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Old April 26th 12, 12:46 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ken Blake[_4_]
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:14:59 -0400, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:11:04 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:56:02 +0100, choro wrote:

PS. I prefer to use the freebie Irfan View which is far superior to Paint.



Just about any alternative is far superior to Paint. Paint has always
been terrible and remains so.


Irfanview is fantastic and free. It can do editing up to and
including one-key color, brightness, and contrast correction. It can
control a scanner for single images or multiple-image TIFFs, and can
save in many, many formats. It's also quite fast.



Yes, thanks. I use it and I know that.

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Old April 26th 12, 04:33 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"Stan Brown" wrote in message
t...
Irfanview is fantastic and free. It can do editing up to and

including one-key color, brightness, and contrast correction. It can
control a scanner for single images or multiple-image TIFFs, and can
save in many, many formats. It's also quite fast.

http://www.irfanview.com/

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com


The default install also comes with a 'Paint' plug-in
Irfanview Menu/Edit/Show Paint Dialog
or
F12

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