DVD Screenshots

[Boz824]

Can anyone help me? How can I take screenshots from a DVD playing on my computer? Good old "Print Screen" doesn't seem to work for DVD's-at least not on my computer. Since there are plenty of screenshots on this site, presumably from DVD's, I thought you might know. Thanks for any help you can offer.

[dean]

what program do you use?  i use power dvd xp and it has a capture screen function where you can capture images from the dvd and save them as a gif or something.  maybe your dvd program has a similar function

[Boz824]

I found one that has a capture feature. Thanks.

[raj]

With Windows systems (don't know about Mac & Linux) you usually also have to disable the video hardware accelerator.

[JohnL]

>With Windows systems (don't know about Mac & Linux) you usually also have to
>disable the video hardware accelerator.

There's a program called HypersnapDX that claims it will capture any Windows display. It's also supposed to be able to capture images bigger than the desktop, such as a web page that you can only see half of at any one time. It's not free though.

[scarface]

the caps are in bmp format.

anyway, if you experience any problem with the picture you capped looks effed up. you can solve that by doing the following:

"You need to get into the Cofig menu. Now Turn off Hardware Acceleration ( I believe its under the Video Tab. Make sure the DVD isn't playing or its grayed out). In the General Tab, there should be an advanced button - click it. In the capture menu change the capture ratio to current video window size"