If you use a Mac, you may have noticed that it’s no longer possible to take a screenshot with commercial streaming services. With Safari it's been impossible for some time. And now it’s the same with the Brave browser — there’s just a black rectangle where a screenshot should be.
I cannot find a Safari extension that will bring screenshots back. But there is a fix with Brave: add the Chrome extension Screenshot Tool.
I would guess that this extension works with Chrome itself, but I don’t (won’t) use Chrome. If anyone can verify that Screenshot Tool works there, please do. And if anyone has a fix for Safari, please share.
I’ve found little discussion of this problem — and no solutions — online, so I hope this post is helpful to some movie fanatic somewhere.
Monday, May 16, 2022
Streaming screenshots
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I always take screenshots with my MacBook's keyboard: command + shift + 4
Does that work for you?
Are screenshot apps better?
Frex = Fresca
Fresca, I use that all the time, but it won’t work to get a screenshot from a commercial streaming services. If I try to get a screenshot from the Criterion Channel or Hulu, I just get a black box.
TCM (Turner Classics) too.
I’ve never had a need for a screenshot app, but my screenshot needs are pretty simple. This extension is only to defeat whatever it is that won’t let me screenshot a movie.
Ah, I see.
If you can play it in something like VLC, you can take the screen cap that way. It might require changing it into another format.
That’d make things easy, but I don’t think there’s a way to play something from a streaming service through VLC.
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