Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: DREDIOCK on February 13, 2005, 08:21:58 PM

Title: Screenshots from DVD
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 13, 2005, 08:21:58 PM

Was watching a movie(Moby Dick) on my computers DVD player and paused it when my inlaws stopped over.

Anyway happened to notice it was a really nice shot  and would have liked to have kept it.

Is there a way to take  screen shots this way?

Title: Screenshots from DVD
Post by: Roscoroo on February 13, 2005, 10:22:03 PM

if ya have a paint program open and hit print screen you should be able to copy it ..   or you can use fraps i think too

Title: Screenshots from DVD
Post by: ALF on February 13, 2005, 10:25:48 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Roscoroo
if ya have a paint program open and hit print screen you should be able to copy it ..   or you can use fraps i think too

Most time just hiting pnt scrn will not work because the DVD is an overlay.  Most good DVD programs have screenshot ability, powerdvd and Windvd4 do

Title: Screenshots from DVD
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 14, 2005, 12:38:32 AM

Cool!
thanks

Title: Screenshots from DVD
Post by: Kev367th on February 14, 2005, 07:33:00 AM

Quote

Originally posted by ALF
Most time just hiting pnt scrn will not work because the DVD is an overlay.  Most good DVD programs have screenshot ability, powerdvd and Windvd4 do

Yup as he said - the video is overlaid therefore it doesn't exist to Windows in the case of pressing the "Print Screen" key. All you'll get is a black/blank screen capture.
Goes something like the picture is overlaid just prior to being viewable on the monitor therefore Windows doesn't know its there.

The DVD player itself usually has a hotkey to allow you to take screen captures.

Title: Screenshots from DVD
Post by: Roscoroo on February 14, 2005, 11:15:03 AM

rgr ... psp does work that i know ... i didnt realize the others didnt work.