Watch Movies in Ms Paint !, Really I'm NOT JOKING !

[The CyberShot]

Hey guys, did you know that you can REALLY watch movies in paint ?

Here's what you gotta do :

> Open your favorite movie player and play the move (I played the .mpg format in Winamp)

> Hit "PrintScreen", keep playing the movie in the player, dont stop it.

> Open MsPaint.

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

> Presto! You can watch movies in Paint!

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

> Spead this fact to all your friends and show how COOL things you can do with Paint!

> Experiment with other formats too, it doesn't play DivX , Flash movies(*.flv), etc. Microsoft hasn't revealed this, I think.

Man! MsPaint is GREAT! I never knew how interesting a boring Image Editing software could be!
This also works with many other similar Image Editing Software too.

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NOTE: The actual Credit to all of this, goes to my friend, Vishak Malepati (No need to Google him, you wont find him) who was watching a movie and wanted to capture a frame of it, and use it as a wallpaper, but as he was a newbie (at that time) he did the above steps and found out this amazing fact ! He told me about it and i'm requesting you to share it with your friends and colleagues.
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Thankx

[niga84]

Nice

[Akhil Jain]

great

[aditya.shevade]

Good.

[Sykora]

I already found this by accident when I wanted to catch a shot from a movie to put as my wallpaper. You can even watch movies on your desktop wallpaper by saving the image you pasted and setting it as your wallpaper.

[Pathik]

good

[paul_007]

amazing discovery dude

[Anand_RF]

Actually, I read that this is done to prevent people from taking screenshots. Wonder why

[thecyclone2k]

Already knew about it

[ayush_chh]

Originally Posted by Sykora

I already found this by accident when I wanted to catch a shot from a movie to put as my wallpaper. You can even watch movies on your desktop wallpaper by saving the image you pasted and setting it as your wallpaper.

same here.....

[sam_1710]

Originally Posted by Sykora

I already found this by accident when I wanted to catch a shot from a movie to put as my wallpaper. You can even watch movies on your desktop wallpaper by saving the image you pasted and setting it as your wallpaper.

ditto here also......

you can also play movies in da background ....
wondering how??...
simple... jus set dat image pasted in paint as da wallpaper... and viola.. movie playin on da desktop

[arunks]

already known for very very long timee..nothing special seems to me so i didnt shared tht

[~Phenom~]

Well thats really great.
Amazing.

[the deconstructionist]

Good trick to show off to friends.

[Tech.Masti]

you can play movie on desktop by using VideoLAN player

[Chirag]

I knew it long long long..................... time ago thru accident of taking shot frm a movie.

[knight17]

Thats funny.

[rockthegod]

dude this is very old stuff. I find it surprising that so few people know abt this so called *trick* ....

More of this ... but hope many of u kno dis already ...]

** Go to [Tools -> Options-> Performance] in Windows Media Player and disable Video Acceleartion (set the slider from "full" to "none"). Whoa the aforementioned *trick* doesn't work ... because directdraw video acceleration is disabled.


** U can save that JPG/BMP in paint and open that saved file in any Image viewer.. the video continues to play in that image viewer too (provided WMP continues to play in the background.


** Wanna see a video playing as a wallpaper ? Either set that *active* image as a wallaper OR use VideoLAN Client. Goto [Video-> Wallpaper].


** Also wanna see ASCII characters in VLC instead of the video. Follow The screenshot:

[img=http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6034/tempvy6.th.jpg]

Go on tampering wid the advanced settings and u will fing secrets !!!!

[The CyberShot]

Thankx Guys for your great responce and all that tips.

[Delta]

Originally Posted by The CyberShot

Microsoft hasn't revealed this i think. MsPaint is GREAT

Microsoft does not want to reveal bugs.....

[Siddhartha_t69]

what's so funny there?
That's because of the function called hardware video overlay...
if that is turned off. then the screenshot of the current frame will be taken...not the video.

[Brainstormer]

The tip is great.

[Third Eye]

I know it.

[teknoPhobia]

The question we should all be asking here is .... why the heck would anyone want to waste time gushing over something that has no practical application whatsoever?

[rohan]

man more than paint's capability, it looks like a GDI bug/glitch sort of thing to me.... never know however.

and no matter what, it isn't the capability of MS Paint at all. It's like the area which paint considers to be the 'video' area is still kept alive on the screen even after the video-playing application is closed.

[Mahesh Kurade]

you are so cool.

[mattoo]

thanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx buddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[shaunak]

I had asked this long ago when i was unable to capture a screen shot! Its a bug. close your media player and the movie is gone! nothing gr8 about paint.
Thank fully the bug has been eliminated in vista.

[toshi jamir]

what about in other players like WM Player

[mattoo]

i cant play it on desktop!!!!!!!!!!!!!! help if anythin is wrong