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Watch movies in MS Paint
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
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lawl awesome. i didn't test but sounds like fun :)
EDIT:
- it works lol. nice found ;)
- i can paint while playing 2 ^^
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lol if this really works, thats awesome!
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Yup just tried, worked. Lol kind of funny.
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Its working. Lol. So what if i want screen from movie? xD
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Wait, so is this creating a .GIF movie with animation in paint?
Man... This could be valuable.
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The memory size of your computer would limit recording time, but an interesting thing anyway.
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Couldn't get it to work for me.
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lol i thought there was just something wrong with my dads computer when i did that -.- pretty cool though
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I've done it before...
Copy and paste the actual footage across the entire canvas
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works very nicely, great find
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Ahaha it is kinda funny! Just looks odd, I tested it on a Harry Potter movie and it is like the moving newspapers.
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sick ive never done this before and its cool
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That is amazing, it would be quite a nice way to confuse computer illiterate people.
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wow, everything great is so simple...
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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.
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Ahahahahahah thats awsome I have to show this to my intotech teacher lol
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haha this is awesome, thanks!
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nice. this works awesome lol, i can paint on people >:)
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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 >_<
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I once did this accidentally when watching a pk vid.
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Thanks, but pretty useless :D
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Lol, pretty cool. How did you find that out?
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so need 10 post count?leecher?:mad:
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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
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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
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You could watch Movies on Paint, cause the Movie is copyrighted, so the picture will be a "video with you paste it on Paint.
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Lol Thes cool, didnt know about that...
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Also works with the 65536 or w/e color that surrounds most of the item borders on rs.
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lmao! That's cool. For some odd reason my sound didn't work. Maybe it's my comp though...
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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!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
c0de
Thank you. I was starting to worry - people on a scripting website being fooled by such a simple trick...
:duh:
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Old stuff...
IMO that was so damn annoying when I tried to get a screenie from a movie... :P:P
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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
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Wow thats awsoume now i can watch simpsons movie and paint spider pig at same time.
