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ajaj
09-08-2007, 10:00 PM
Hey guys, did you know that you can watch movies in paint ? But u can't do anything (Just watch it while its playing in Media Player Classic, winamp or any other movie player you use.

Here's what you gotta do :

1.Open your favourite movie player and play the move (I played the .avi, format in Media Player Classic) (.mpg also works)

2.Hit "PrintScreen", keep playing the movie in the player, don't stop it.

3.Open MsPaint.

4.Select "Edit > Paste" Or Hit "CTRL+V"

You can watch movies in Paint!

But there are no Pause, Next, Previous, Stop etc. buttons

Experiment with other formats too, it doesn't play DivX , Flash movies

MasterKill
09-08-2007, 10:08 PM
lawl awesome. i didn't test but sounds like fun :)

EDIT:
- it works lol. nice found ;)

- i can paint while playing 2 ^^

Infantry001
09-08-2007, 10:09 PM
lol if this really works, thats awesome!

mastaraymond
09-08-2007, 10:14 PM
Wow nice!

Opal Tasty
09-08-2007, 10:15 PM
Yup just tried, worked. Lol kind of funny.

dyles
09-08-2007, 11:39 PM
Its working. Lol. So what if i want screen from movie? xD

R0b0t1
09-09-2007, 12:02 AM
Wait, so is this creating a .GIF movie with animation in paint?


Man... This could be valuable.

lonewolfszc
09-09-2007, 01:48 AM
The memory size of your computer would limit recording time, but an interesting thing anyway.

Smartzkid
09-09-2007, 02:13 AM
Couldn't get it to work for me.

nething
09-09-2007, 02:54 AM
lol i thought there was just something wrong with my dads computer when i did that -.- pretty cool though

Diablo1123
09-09-2007, 06:20 AM
I've done it before...
Copy and paste the actual footage across the entire canvas

cyberspace07
09-09-2007, 02:20 PM
Yup pretty cool :D

Timothegreat
09-09-2007, 05:52 PM
works very nicely, great find

Tails111
09-09-2007, 06:00 PM
Ahaha it is kinda funny! Just looks odd, I tested it on a Harry Potter movie and it is like the moving newspapers.

mark9510
09-09-2007, 06:41 PM
sick ive never done this before and its cool

bballoakie
09-09-2007, 11:55 PM
That is amazing, it would be quite a nice way to confuse computer illiterate people.

dima89
09-10-2007, 08:52 PM
wow, everything great is so simple...

anonymoustbh
09-11-2007, 03:13 AM
it doesn't make a gif / record the image, it pretty much puts a hole straight through the paint window in the area of the screenshot that the movie would be in, if you move the paint window arround, the border arround the movie's actual area in the screenshot will cut off the movie.

Hobbit
09-11-2007, 04:18 AM
Ahahahahahah thats awsome I have to show this to my intotech teacher lol

Ermalz
09-11-2007, 05:19 PM
HAHA Thats so awesome!

psipog
09-12-2007, 06:06 AM
haha this is awesome, thanks!

cerealkiller
09-12-2007, 10:33 AM
nice. this works awesome lol, i can paint on people >:)

arcix
09-12-2007, 07:17 PM
The reason this works is that most media players use hardware acceleration. When you press Print Screen, Windows can not save the current video frame into a static bitmap picture because WMP, not Windows, is accessing a section of video memory directly. Instead, when you take a screenshot, Windows returns a handle to the original video memory in your media player. When you paste the screenshot into Paint or any other picture editting program, the program accesses the handle to draw whatever is there. This means that no matter what you draw over the "video" area in Paint, it will still show the video. If the video changes, Paint will update the picture. If the media player is closed or if you save and re-open the file, you will see a black rectangle in the place where the video should be.

When I first found out about this, I did not think it was cool at all. I was trying to screenshot a frame from a movie and then save it as a file.. but couldn't do so. I ended up disabling hardware acceleration in WMP to get a screenshot >_<

n3ss3s
09-12-2007, 07:21 PM
I once did this accidentally when watching a pk vid.

Gowsu
09-12-2007, 10:45 PM
Thanks, but pretty useless :D

Mr beat
09-13-2007, 02:16 PM
LOL, it works =DDD

Bradlays
09-13-2007, 06:53 PM
Lol, pretty cool. How did you find that out?

ShowerThoughts
09-13-2007, 07:10 PM
so need 10 post count?leecher?:mad:

Zyt3x
09-13-2007, 08:16 PM
Lol yea i noticed that for about 14 months ago, i tryed to print screen a movie, nad then i coud paint on the movie! ^^ its kewl! :D

zach_is_wack
09-15-2007, 02:10 PM
l0lzerz i remeber doing this i was lik 6, havent done it since then :/ dose it still work to like draw on the pic?:p

vcw
09-15-2007, 06:55 PM
You could watch Movies on Paint, cause the Movie is copyrighted, so the picture will be a "video with you paste it on Paint.

Lalaji
09-16-2007, 04:07 PM
Lol Thes cool, didnt know about that...

shaunthasheep
09-16-2007, 04:35 PM
Also works with the 65536 or w/e color that surrounds most of the item borders on rs.

busha5a5a5
09-16-2007, 07:30 PM
hehe didnt know

coolbeans
09-16-2007, 11:29 PM
lmao! That's cool. For some odd reason my sound didn't work. Maybe it's my comp though...

Julza
09-18-2007, 08:02 AM
Yep that works - ill post a quick snippet of whats going on...

When taking a screen shot your cp does not only take a screen shot, it also has a code of what you have on your task bar.

And with a movie such as like James bond it has encoded that it is a "moving file" which makes it move, and remember how i said it takes a code of what it has on your task bar, well it keeps playing!

Lokito
09-18-2007, 02:09 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay

?Thank you. I was starting to worry - people on a scripting website being fooled by such a simple trick...

:duh:

CheetahNub
09-18-2007, 05:23 PM
Old stuff...

IMO that was so damn annoying when I tried to get a screenie from a movie... :P:P

toxicf
10-02-2007, 09:50 AM
i don't think you're actually playing it in paint, i think that paint just can't take a screenshot of the movie so it shows through it like a hole. If you move paint around the video won't move with it... I tried this when i was trying to printscreen a video


EDIT: oh ok sorry i didn't read all the posts

Scotland
10-02-2007, 03:07 PM
Wow thats awsoume now i can watch simpsons movie and paint spider pig at same time.

munk
10-02-2007, 11:59 PM
yeah, i figured this out a while back when i tried to take a picture of a video and save it as a jpeg. Doesnt work, but hey, you can watch videos in paint. haha

Zeke1901
10-03-2007, 05:01 PM
Heh, wtf? Is this some kind of bug with MSPaint, cause this is about the coolest thing I've seen since Excel had Flight Simulator hidden on it.

SimpleAs
10-03-2007, 08:27 PM
Doesnt work for me :S Maybe because the film?

pinapple-->
10-03-2007, 09:05 PM
Hillarious thats awsome really works!

SirMashew
10-14-2007, 06:24 AM
Heh, wtf? Is this some kind of bug with MSPaint, cause this is about the coolest thing I've seen since Excel had Flight Simulator hidden on it.

Do tell. :rolleyes:

baosen
10-14-2007, 09:33 AM
It only works if you have a OpenGL or Direct3D graphic card that supports video rendering. Because then your GFX card will use a video layer, which you can print screen and paste anywhere. You will still see the video playing after pasting.

If you don't have a GFX card that supports video rendering, your computer will render the images without using a video layer. You won't be able to see videos in paint then.

darkbrother
10-27-2007, 01:20 PM
Loooll! awesome!

Shawn1533
12-18-2007, 11:16 PM
this works perfectly exalent find

meus_vita
12-21-2007, 07:02 AM
So cool,man nice find
it actually works....:)

ooples
12-21-2007, 07:36 AM
thats pritty oober

mariofan12
07-15-2008, 02:03 AM
Omg this is awsome!

xfire
08-08-2008, 08:12 AM
I have Vista, doesn't work for me. :mad:

ax0ren
08-19-2008, 05:58 PM
I have Vista, doesn't work for me. :mad:

Same, I'm using VLC and a .avi, must not work in Vista.

sf411
08-20-2008, 05:04 AM
That is some pretty sweet stuff, would have never thought of doing that.

sapetto
08-20-2008, 06:04 AM
Watching and drawing the film at one time! :p

NeoXeo
09-05-2008, 02:43 PM
LOLLLLLL I never knew this would work :o

triv
09-14-2008, 11:23 PM
I have Vista, doesn't work for me. :mad:


Same here, 32-bit.

nething
09-21-2008, 01:04 AM
Omg this is awsome!

wow...7 month gravedig...

Shady?
09-21-2008, 01:45 AM
Lol this allways happened to me, but now i got vista xD. when trying to print screens of bike movies.

P W N T
09-21-2008, 01:49 AM
Wow. Never in my 'RIGHT' Mind would I have ever thought about watching a DVD On MS-Pain. Nice find.

~Pwnt

William
10-03-2008, 10:19 PM
It works sweet lol

Danizho
10-05-2008, 04:30 AM
lol...
its awesome!
but i cant take a image to edit!

Vampspiro
10-07-2008, 03:53 PM
the most awesomely pointless thing ever THIS WINS !!
thanks for posting xD

newber_dan
11-23-2008, 01:43 PM
not working for me.... this been tried on vista and does the movie need to be in full screen or what? im only getting a screen cap like usually...

itz over 9000
01-31-2009, 07:47 AM
Sweet! second best thing to happen to me!

DemonKing7
02-26-2009, 11:52 PM
it doesnt work for me, everytime it happens MSpaint just freezes up

TheFatness
03-11-2009, 01:08 AM
Sweet! second best thing to happen to me!

What is the first?

This works for me. I wonder if I can get DVDs from blockbuster and save them on my PC. :rolleyes:

The Reeper
03-11-2009, 09:24 PM
Yeah i found this out while trying to get a screenie of a movie as well... I was aggrovated >:(
But I didn't find out until after I had saved the file, then opened it up later... as it played what was currently playing, (I had switched movies... and it showed the new movie when I opened the file. :p)
This isn't the EXACT story... but the exact story is a little more embarrassing XD pm for details.

Ouivile
07-27-2009, 12:28 PM
/!?!?? i thought everyone knew this?!!?!?!? wow .... well i knew it for ever, because i used to want to take screenies from movies. the video_ts folders on dvds have blocks on this because they dont want u to recapture frame by frame. if u want a screenie u need to get special software....however theres obviously a bunch of free stuff

my fav for everything is VLC

at vlcmedia.com or somthin

it can take screenies....

mikuz
02-22-2010, 08:11 PM
Just annoying when trying to take screen :D