Take a screen shot from a video

Introduction
If you play a video on a Windows PC you can't take a screen shot. Press Print Screen won't give you anything. If you use Greenshot or other screen shot utilities, again you'll get nothing, just a black screen! Then I came across the solution. I'm using VLC Media Player and I noticed it actually has a built-in screen shot function!


Instructions
In VLC Media Player, play your film, press pause at the screen you want to capture.



Click Video and change the 'Video snapshots' Directory (click Browse to select a folder)

Click Save

For this change to take effect you must close VLC Media Player and re-open it.