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TV ClubHouse: Archive: USA 2002: All Things Technical for BB 2002 (computer stuff): How can I make screen caps???: Archive through July 18, 2002

Ryn

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 05:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If you want to share the way you do it - post it here.

I mostly use a program called 'hypersnap' - its shareware and can be found at most download sites - I will post the link later.

There ARE other ways as well.

Sage

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 06:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I use Paint Shop Pro v.7. You can find it at jasc.com. It is not a free program, but I believe you can try it out for a certain time period for free. It is very useful for me to use this program for doing the screen caps, because of features for getting the pic lighter or darker, or sharper, or whatever.

Pamy

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 07:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How?? I am still trying to figure out WHAT they are!!!
<-----should be blonde hair!

Ryn

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 08:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Some people take pictures of the live video feeds and post them or share them with friends.

Its how we got pictures of certain things BEFORE you saw them on TV (if you ever did).

We had screen caps of Justin holding the knife to Krista within a couple hours of it happening.

olphilia

here is a screen cap I took of Ophillia right as the HGs were introduced to her (sorry - low quality cap as it was on my 56k connection). Many people without the feeds love to see things that won't be on TV for a day or two :)

Pamy

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 06:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Ryn!

Freydnot

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 10:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ryn, I'll second your recomendation of HyperSnap and add in HyperCam too. They are both made by HyperIonics

HyperCam will capture a movie by doing a series of screen captures as fast as your computer can go. It then saves them as an .avi movie. I've had great results with it.

HyperSnap is $35 to register. Hypercam is $30 to register. Or you can get them both for $59.95

Ryn

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 10:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah - I used hypercam to make AVIs of some of the goings on last year :)

I bought version 2.x of hypersnap - it still works - I think they are on 4.x now

You can capture audio & vid with hypercam, though it takes some playing around with.

The fake stream of Monica jumping on the trampoline I made last year was made using hypercam (then inserted the AVI into a flash movie).

Freydnot

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 03:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I had success using streambox VCR to capture the RTSP streams directly last year. I haven't tried it since, so I don't know if it will still work.

Its probably worth a try though.

Ryn

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 05:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Freyd - I have used it to capture the Extra stream and the CBS Early morning stream this year.

You mean you used it to capture the live feeds too???

How did you turn it on and off if you did that??

Freydnot

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 06:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ryn, yes I was able to capture the live feeds with streambox VCR (or is the streambox ripper?)

The key was to get the raw RTSP "URL" from URL snooper and feed that to streambox. The RTSP URL should look something like rtsp://rx-lvl3-tex01.rbn.com/farm/*/encoder/cbs/cbs/bb3/secure/live/cam3_200.rm?rbnkey=2002071101128ded6dd21d9252620b44900ed0c8e6e3

Let the games begin :)

Gusto

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Dang, I knew there was a trick to this - same as last year. I capture the image - but it is black....

Anyone know what the trick was to get screenshots last year? (And it was without buying Hypersnap)

__Tera

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 08:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gusto.. in your RealOne "preferences" click on the "hardware" link, then uncheck "Use optimized video display".

It worked for me.

Gusto

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 08:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Outstanding Tera! That was the solution ;-)

Thank you

Emjaycue

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 09:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I wrote a screenshot tutorial for our users over at Riii. You folks are welcome to use it here if you want. Here's the link:

Screenshot Tutorial

Zachsmom

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 10:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How do I upload a screen shot to this website?

Sage

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 02:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Zachsmom, the image uploading feature for the board has been disabled until the end of the Big Brother season. I and another person that I'm aware of, have made websites for posting the caps/shots. If you would like to, you could email me, and I would be happy to add a pic to my ever growing collection. Just click on my name to the left here, and you can get my email addy and the url for my site in my profile. I hope that helps. :)

Missy666

Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 08:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Tera and Emjaycue, I took your advise Tera and unchecked the thingy in Realone and I followed the directions Emjaycue wrote to make the screen prints and now I am able to do screen prints.

Poser

Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 03:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've used every function of Hypersnap, and I can't get a screen shot of realone. Any other ideas?

Missy666

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 09:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Poser I don't know anything about Hypersnap, but if you read the threads above from Tera and Emjaycue and download that program it should work to get screen shots, that is what I used and it worked great.

Good Luck

Poser

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 03:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Missy666,

I already did all of those things. They didn't work. What I get is the realone shell with a black center.

I know how to capture a screen. It just won't capture the streaming feed from BB.

I am an expert with Paintshop Pro and have now tried 4 different screen capture programs including Hypersnap, the one that others say they are using.

__Tera

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 05:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Poser.. in your RealOne "preferences" click on the "hardware" link, then uncheck "Use optimized video display".

Sage

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 06:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I use a program called MWSnap. It is freeware, and works pretty good. You can find it Here. I hope that helps.

Poser

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 07:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tera,

Yup. It is.

Poser

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 07:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Duh!!! I have been reading the instructions about the optimized video display backwards. I have been making sure it WAS checked.

Thanks everybody. It wasn't an expertise problem. It was a reading comprehension problem. It's tough being stupid, but somebody has to do it.

__Tera

Thursday, July 18, 2002 - 09:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
lol, Poser. I'm glad it worked for you.