dvd screenshots

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:14 pm

just wondering why when i take a screen shot of a dvd playing on my computer all i get is a black screen or if i line it up with the movie i get the movie in my pic and can watch it there but when i save the pic its just a black screen

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:56 pm

This is a fuction form the TSR coded day's of uSoft and has never been updated!

The original concept was to capture everything on the Display Screen, but that
required a non-moving image ( like a spread sheet or picture! )

To get this function to work properly, today, you need to:
1) pause the DVD at the picture you want to grab.
2) press Print Screen twice.
3) open your Paint program ( if its not already opened )
4) Paste the picture to your Paint program ( yes it will be black! )
5) go back to your paused DVD picture.
6) press Print Screen
7) ^_^ bingo - there it is ^_^

The reason for the delay is the TSR Memory Usage and the failure of the TSR
to pre-clean "that" location of its memory first ( programmers oversite )
and by doing the Print Screen - Paste - Print Screen twice you have corrected
an error that MicroSoft has not deemed worthy of updating.

TRS's were very popular nine years ago and so were Batch files - why this error
never got updated? - who knows ^^;;;; . . this 7 step method works /fin

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:59 pm

thanx. damn microsoft

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:01 pm

8) paste to Paint program . . umm . *cough* ^^;;;; hope I didn't bore ya!

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:13 pm

hmmmm that didnt seem to work. i pressed print screen twice then pasted it into photoshop i also tryed paint for the heck of it. the image was there it was not black but then when i saved it it became black. so i when back and started from the begining pressed print screen twice then pasted it into photoshop then when back to the dvd and pressed print screen again. then pasted it and then it became balck

. maybe its differant on xp.

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:06 pm

well i found a program that will do it for u incase anyone is interested in it the url is http://download.com.com/redir?pid=10205 ... 2setup.zip it works fine but its not free u have a limit on it till u register it

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 2:41 am

You can also rip the specific vob, and then open it in vdub and rock and roll from there with the "Save Image"command.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 12:49 pm

post-it: I don't know what you're talking about.

madmag9999: You can't do a screen grab because of video acceleration. You could try what Dannywilson said, or try turning off hardware graphics acceleration as described here:
http://www.riverpast.com/faq/faq_video.html

CArnesen · Post by **CArnesen** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 12:54 pm

Well, I've always used the 'Capture' function of PowerDVD. Works like a charm!

--Chris ^_^

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 2:45 pm

dokidoki wrote:post-it: I don't know what you're talking about.

If you have built your computer correctly then the "Print Screen" button should work flawlessly - I've used it under Windows and Lenux; so I know it works when the computers they have built done correctly ^^