Hi,

I've embedded the Windows Media Player control within my Delphi 5
application and am trying to capture the currently displayed video frame to
a bitmap for use elsewhere in my app.

I've seen a couple of posts suggesting that this can't be done; however, the
Microsoft free screen capture program (i.e., HTML Help Image Editor) has no
problem selecting the Media Player's client window and capturing its
contents.  Any ideas on how to accomplish this in Delphi with or without the
use of DirectDraw?  Thanks...

Jeff Rhoads

check out: http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,16037,00.html

HTH,

Mike B.

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I wrote that article when I was at Borland, and also posted
(here) a much better version a couple of years ago, but I
fail to understand how that would work with capturing the
video screen of the Media Player...

Joe

As you gathered, my primary interest is to find a way to capture the Media
Player's client window screen image.  However, an alternative solution would
be to somehow use the Media Player's underlying DirectShow interface to grab
the actual frame image.  I've seen references to using IBasicVideo and the
GetCurrentImage() method to accomplish this task within a DirectShow app;
however, I don't understand how to access this interface via the Media
Player control.  Any experience with this interface??  Thanks again...

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