dvd screen shots

**shinbreaker** · June 1st, 2003, 05:30 PM

how do u take a screen shot of a dvd, i have tried and its a blank screen unless its right over top the dvd program, this is on my laptop using InterVideo WinnDVD

**Peter M** · June 1st, 2003, 05:56 PM

This is normal. Screenshots capture the contents of the computed main image, but not the video overlay. (Main image and overlay are combined in the graphics card's output pipeline, not in the card's memory.)
You need to use the DVD viewing application to take snapshots.

**shinbreaker** · June 1st, 2003, 05:57 PM

do you know where i can find one, i wanna take a picture for my webpage

**HfdWolfPack** · June 1st, 2003, 09:00 PM

What program are you using to watch the DVD?

**shinbreaker** · June 1st, 2003, 10:13 PM

InterVideo WinnDVD

**Speed** · June 1st, 2003, 10:33 PM

From the help section of Intervideo windvd...

If you want to remember a perfect (or not so perfect) image in a movie, capture it as a still image.

To capture a still image from a DVD or other video content, at the desired place in the movie, click the Capture button or press P on the keyboard. The image is captured to memory, and the Capture Browser opens.

To capture additional images, click the capture button in the Capture Browser. Each image is shown by a thumbnail in the browser. Since the images are saved to memory, you can capture images in rapid sequence.

Captured images can be saved to disc using the Save and Save All buttons in the browser. Closing the browser does not delete the captured images, but they will be lost when WinDVD exits unless you save them.

The Capture Browser buttons are used to work with captured images. They are:

Capture/Preview

Save Current/Save All

Delete Selected/Delete All

Note: capture does not work on zoomed regions and when using some types of hardware acceleration. If you are having a problem, try turning off the Hardware Acceleration option in the Video tab of the Setup dialog box and/or in the Color subpanel.

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If you look at your settings page you can choose the file that the captured picture gets sent to.

Dave.

**HfdWolfPack** · June 2nd, 2003, 12:59 PM

Speed beat me to it

**shinbreaker** · June 2nd, 2003, 06:06 PM

i go into the help and it shows icons of the capture and says about the shortcut but its not on the toolbar doring a moive and the shortcut does nothng

**HfdWolfPack** · June 2nd, 2003, 09:46 PM

you try pressing "P" and going to c:\program files\windvd etc?

**shinbreaker** · June 2nd, 2003, 10:09 PM

nope nothing there, its making me so mad, i'm usally good with computers but something so simple i can't do, i don't know if its the program or me

**HfdWolfPack** · June 3rd, 2003, 01:40 PM

Do a search on your drive for "cap001.bmp" , "cap002.bmp"

Some graphics chips have trouble capturing images from WinDVD. If you have a problem, disable hardware motion compensation (located on the Properties dialog, under Display) and recapture the image.

Are you using Windvd 4?