Screenshot of DVD

Hi all,
First off an appology if this is in the wrong place, couldn't decide between here and the video/sound section.

I am trying to get a screenshot of a frame on a DVD, but no matter what I do all I get is a blank rectangle where the video should be. This bit is a bit hard to explain, but when the video is open in the background, I can see the video in paint shop pro (or MS image preview, or firefox etc.. whatever I open the picture in. Now, when I move the image on the screen, or resize scroll etc the window moves, but the screen from the video doesnt!! It's like I have a hole to the video in the screen.

I had something similar years ago back on '98, and used a program, HyperSnap, to capture the overlay, but this is not working now.

I have tried playing the video in Media Player, PowerDVD, Intervideo and some player that came with my dvd writer, and to capture i've used print screen, hypernap, psp6 and 7 capture facility. All have the same results, but some videos I can capture ok, some won't.

Please could someone help me with this problem. How can do to get a bitmap saved to disc of a dvd?

I use InterVideo WinDVD4 and it has its own little capture button/ utility that lets me take screenshots and save them however I want.

You can capture with powerdvd but you have to disable hardware accelleration.

There's something called overlay mode mode. In Winamp whilst watching a video, I've had the same problem and turning off Overlay Mode enabled me to take a screenshot.

Thanks for the replys!

Trombe said:

I use InterVideo WinDVD4 and it has its own little capture button/ utility that lets me take screenshots and save them however I want.

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I have used the inbuilt capture as well as capture programs, all same result.

moz_21 said:

You can capture with powerdvd but you have to disable hardware accelleration.

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This worked, thanks!, but the quality has been reduced lots - its very pixelated (stretched? not smothed? IDK)

willkill1337 said:

There's something called overlay mode mode. In Winamp whilst watching a video, I've had the same problem and turning off Overlay Mode enabled me to take a screenshot.

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I remember know, yes thanks! disable overlay on the display control panel. But that was back on my nVidea. All I have on my ATI is the huge *** catalyst control centre that takes half a day to load, and a futher half day to do anything. How do I disable overlay in it. I also have radlinker but was unable to find any overlay setting.

Is there another way to disable overlay without turning off hardware accel/quality??

If not I may just rip it into avi and capture that way.

Lonew0lf said:

This worked, thanks!, but the quality has been reduced lots - its very pixelated (stretched? not smothed? IDK)

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Did you use the spacebar in Powerdvd instead of just doing a printscreen?

moz_21 said:

Did you use the spacebar in Powerdvd instead of just doing a printscreen?

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I think it was configured a 'c' or something, but yes, and I had it set to write to disc each time (d:\snap_.bmp) I have all the files on disk, but they are black, or are like lego tv!