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Screen Cap WITH Media Player Content?

Hello,

I was playing with my screen capture utility the other day and I noticed that, while it caps the screen perfectly, and shows me the mouse pointer etc.. It doesn't show me whats playing with in a MOV/AVI/MPEG viewer..

This is the screen cap code I use (basically) https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20335134/Screen-Capture-with-mouse-pointer.html

When my screen capture program caps the screen, if there is a Media Player window open, it wont capture whats in the media player.. It just gives a black blank area..

What causes this? Is this an error in my code? How do I fix this so I CAN capture the screen and get whats in the media player?

Thanks.

-Jason

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Palamedes

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Oh..wow.. thanks Alex.. I didn't realize it worked that way..

So there is absolutely no way to directly copy the information from the card? I realize this would probably take some serious programming..

Wim ten Brink

I don't think it's possible, although I'm not 100% sure. It could be that through DirectX or some other technique, you can still get the screen contents. But with DirectX, the CPU just lets the videocard do most of the processing and the videocard does not send the screen information back to the system. So I fear it's not possible.