...a video. Im trying to take a screenshot of a music video from yahoo.com (its all in windows media format) and everytime i paste it into paint i get black where the screen should be.

Help a dummy out...

I don't think it's possible. But you could get a camera and take a picture of your monitor.

I beleve if you go under tools/options and select the performance tab and lower the video acceleration to the middle area would work.

Some video players have a screen grab button to allow you to take pictures.

Doesn't "Print Screen" work?

Press Print Screen, then in Paint do "Paste".

Doesn't "Print Screen" work?

Press Print Screen, then in Paint do "Paste".
I think thats what he tried.

I rember pressing Print Screen to get some pictures out a Rome: Total War wonder movie and I just got a black box.

PRINT SCREEN does not work because

... the videos are HARDWARE ACCELERATED.

Solution: It will work as soon as you deactivate Hardware Acceleration in the player, just as CivGeneral said - to be more precise, not only middle, if you do not see a switch turn hardware acceleration off, turn it all down.

You have the same problems if you try to show a windows media player video on a beamer, they get a funny black screen... simply switch hardware acceleration off.