[wellylug] PNG can do video!(No Really it has to be a bug)

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Mon Jun 28 16:49:24 NZST 2004


On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Sam Cannell wrote:

> The blue you're seeing is the colour that's replaced by the video
> overlay.  Wherever that blue is on the screen will be replaced by the
> video playing.  You'd get the same thing if you made your desktop
> background that colour.
>
> Windows will do the same with the default options set.  An interesting
> aside - to take screenshots of a video playing in RealPlayer (possibly
> others as well) under windows, disable video acceleration.  This will
> turn off the video overlay functions and force the player to write the
> video to the window itself.  This means that you can take a shot of
> the video window playing and get the video contents as well.

The contents being a single frame or a series of frames 'played as a
video'? Pizbit seemed to be saying that taking a screenshot (i.e. a single
point in time) takes a copy of the video too. Or else I'm extremely
confused by what he was trying to say... ?-}







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