JuuL said:
Juul, I've been working on some new advisors (which I'm thinking of posting here when I'm done!) and I've been doing a lot of capturing from movie files. The problem is that the DirectShow renderer uses "overlay" mode by default when it's available. As such, the program playing the movie never actually gets the images from the movie; the video card directly puts it onto the screen. So normal printscreen captures won't work. You're going to have to turn off overlay for your movie player. I don't know how it works with media player, or if you can even do that, though.
If you can't figure it out, you can try using what I use (Zoom Player). Right click on the window (when a movie is being played, or else the options won't be there), select Filter Properties/Video Renderer, select the DirectDraw tab, and turn everything off (all the checkboxes to the left on my version). With that, I take screenshots with no problem.
BTW, I love your idea. That wacky military advisor was always the most amusing.