On Tuesday, January 22, 2002, at 05:05 , Michael J. Hu=DFmann wrote:
> Robert,
>
> this is a well-known phenomenon to anyone who has ever owned a =
Performa
> 630 AV, or any of its successors: You cannot take a screenshot of=20
> a video
> image, regardless of the screenshot utility you use. The video=20
> window is
> empty, it just serves as a cue for the video hardware so it knows =
where
> to insert the video image (which never enters RAM and thus can't be
> captured). Now the funny thing is that if you take a screenshot=20
> and then
> open that -- in Photoshop, SimpleText, or whatever --, the window=20
> in the
> screenshot will still prompt the video hardware to overlay the video
> image within that area (a kind of chroma keying is used for that), so
> while the player is running in the background, you can view the video
> within the SimpleText or Photoshop window.
As a matter of fact, one neato cool thing with mac OS X ( dunno if=20
the same trick will work with pre-X Mac OS ) is that if you set=20
your background color to the appropriate shade, the video source=20
will output directly to your desktop, behind everything else. Very=20
cool.
Zachery Bir <zbir_at_urbanape.com>
<URL:http://www.urbanape.com/>
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