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Sadly reminds me of the very early days of online video, where speed runners would video their televisions because screen capture devices were terribly expensiv
by zrobotics 6y ago
Sadly reminds me of the very early days of online video, where speed runners would video their televisions because screen capture devices were terribly expensive.
What's old is new again?
- reaperducer 6y agoWhat's old is new again? I'm not so sure. Back in my Windows days (95? 98, maybe?) if I played a DVD on my computer, the window that the video was playing in would be black if I took a screenshot.
- toast0 6y agoA lot of early computer DVD playing was using hardware accelerated decode, with the resulting images bypassing the framebuffer. That means it won't show up on your screenshots, but it wasn't necessarily detecting a a screenshot and blanking the output (although, once software decoding was feasible, that may also have happened).
- eznzt 6y agoI remember this. I also remember the colour of the video window was something like 030303 and if you had that colour on any other window (including your wallpaper) you would see the video there as well.