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[Fiend]

The color 160016 (RGB) is a special color that common Media Players use. Go ahead and open up Microsoft Paint and create the color 160016. Or if your too lazy, I'll post an image with that color.



Ok, now put that image over a media player as it's playing a movie. You can see right through it! How crazy is that! This doesn't work on all media players but most of them.

They use this technique so you can't take screen shots of movies. You'll just get the color 160016 if you try. Thats how I figured it out.

[Kn1ghtl0rd]

The color 160016 (RGB) is a special color that common Media Players use.  Go ahead and open up Microsoft Paint and create the color 160016.  Or if your too lazy, I'll post an image with that color.



Ok, now put that image over a media player as it's playing a movie.  You can see right through it!  How crazy is that!  This doesn't work on all media players but most of them.

They use this technique so you can't take screen shots of movies.  You'll just get the color 160016 if you try.  Thats how I figured it out.

How did you go about discovering this, I mean what made you want to know this information?

[Fiend]

The color 160016 (RGB) is a special color that common Media Players use.  Go ahead and open up Microsoft Paint and create the color 160016.  Or if your too lazy, I'll post an image with that color.



Ok, now put that image over a media player as it's playing a movie.  You can see right through it!  How crazy is that!  This doesn't work on all media players but most of them.

They use this technique so you can't take screen shots of movies.  You'll just get the color 160016 if you try.  Thats how I figured it out.

How did you go about discovering this, I mean what made you want to know this information?

Well, I tried to take a screen shot of a movie to show my friend the good quality of it. Then when I paisted it into Microsoft Paint, the movie was playing in the paint box. I'm like weird! So I turn the movie off, and I just seen this Dark Violet color.

And sure enough, that color is 160016. Crazy huh?

[Kn1ghtl0rd]

That is pretty cool man.

[ntheory]

They use this technique so you can't take screen shots of movies.  You'll just get the color 160016 if you try.  Thats how I figured it out.

I think that's a little far fetched. I think that this is done because your video card is not drawing directly but is putting the video on the screen in video overlay mode.

Basically, the video acceleration hardware knows to replace that color with the MPEG video (or other accelerated video type). It's not a conspiracy, I promise.

[tokachu]

The color is #00001E in MPlayer and is #FF00FF in the Windows 98 DVD Player.

Oh, I forgot to add: Winamp lets you set an overlay color for its AVS so you can have fancy moving images on your desktop. Drempels does the same thing (using #FF00FF).

Edited by tokachu, 18 October 2005 - 06:58 PM.

[d3xter]

w00t this is some kewl stuff i did it as my background (the color ) and i openend up my window to select backgrounds etc and i watched my porn through that w00t

[Apoc]

Did you watch the pr0n on your desktop or in the little window where you select your background?

[systems_glitch]

This also woks with the ATI Player for the ATI All-In-Wonder TV capture cards. I noticed when I went to change the desktop background color while watching TV (I have an overabundance of midrange to low-end PCs...so I use one as a TV...) and noticed that the pinkish swatch in the color selector was displaying part of the TV input.

[d3xter]

Did you watch the pr0n on your desktop or in the little window where you select your background?

In the little windows where i select my background..

(sorry for bad English and Grammer)

[.1337]

This may be off topic, but how do you take ss that arent moving of a movie? Do you have to use a certain program? Im curious as I want to make animated gif's from porn .

[elchoaro^2]

Awesome. This happened to me a million times when I tried to copy and paste specific frames of a video in paint. I can't believe I never made the connection. I found it unusual, but that was about it.

Oh, I forgot to add: Winamp lets you set an overlay color for its AVS so you can have fancy moving images on your desktop. Drempels does the same thing (using #FF00FF).

BSPlayer will do it to actually play your video on the wallpaper, rather than silly visualizations.

Edited by elchoaro^2, 23 October 2005 - 06:09 PM.

[wiccan_two]

Wow i tried this and now every time i go into the folder where my video is it crashes explorer, i wonder why this is happening ill have to try a diferent video?