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jmf123aci

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windows media centre
« on: April 06, 2012, 05:51 PM »
When windows media centre is in full screen mode the screen shots are all black.I'm using v2.82.01.

Is there a way to take full screen screenshots in windows media centre in windows 7 64bit?

At the moment I can take screenshots of windows media centre by having it in a large window only.







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Re: windows media centre
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2012, 05:55 PM »
Probably not, because of video acceleration in this mode, which bypasses the normal attempts to grab a screenshot.  You could do it if you completely disabled hardware acceleration for your graphics card, but doing that would hurt performance.

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Re: windows media centre
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2012, 06:14 PM »
When windows media centre is in full screen mode the screen shots are all black.I'm using v2.82.01.

Is there a way to take full screen screenshots in windows media centre in windows 7 64bit?

At the moment I can take screenshots of windows media centre by having it in a large window only.
Euhm, and if you installed the latest 3.0 version from this thread? 2.82 is really, really old :o
And 3.0 has a DirectX capture mode, that might come in handy in your situation as well, though I've never worked with the Windows Media Center, so I can't know for sure.
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Re: windows media centre
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2012, 09:27 PM »
Maybe I'm missing something, but with the current version of SCC (3.03.01) I had no trouble doing a Grab Current Screen while WMP was in full screen mode (F11) playing the sample wildlife video.  Win 7 x64, with an Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT, 295.73 driver.  (That's full screen on one 1920x1080 monitor, not spanning both of them.)
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Re: windows media centre
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2012, 11:22 AM »
Hi,

I have installed v3.03.01 but full screen windows media centre is still black.

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