Chris The Rock Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Mods, if this veers into taboo territory, feel free to delete. =========== I want to be able to put a movie in my PC's DVD drive, cue up to a particular frame, and take a screen capture. What programs are available to do this? (I'm specifically looking to get screen grab of the scene in Office Space where the "two Bobs" are sitting across the table and they ask Tom ... "What youd you say you DO here?". There's a priceless look on both of their faces at that exact moment. I want to take that pic, put a caption at the bottom and set it as my desktop at work.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orpheus Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 The simplest thing to do would be to hit printscreen and then paste the image into the editor of your choice. Alot of dvd software also has a hotkey for taking screenshots. I know PowerDVD does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris The Rock Posted August 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 The simplest thing to do would be to hit printscreen and then paste the image into the editor of your choice. Alot of dvd software also has a hotkey for taking screenshots. I know PowerDVD does. When hitting pritscreen, the image doesn't show up. I'll check out PowerDVD. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orpheus Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 is the image not showing up in your dvd player when you paste it or are you getting no image at all when you go to paste it (you should be getting your full desktop)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Tyner Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 is the image not showing up in your dvd player when you paste it or are you getting no image at all when you go to paste it (you should be getting your full desktop)?Overlay and Print Scrn don't play well together. I personally use PowerDVD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whooter Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Overlay and Print Scrn don't play well together. I personally use PowerDVD. Nope. I use WinDVD (because it came free with the drive. I'm cheap,) which has a hotkey for screencaps. It's how I got my avatar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 The reason you don't get an image is because that picture is in a DirectX overlay, and not the main screen itself. Some of the players have got dedicated screengrab features you could try, but the other option is to go into the advanced player settings and turn off all the video accelleration you can - that'll probably force it to write to the base screen layer rather than the overlay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Chris, what do you use for DVD playback? If you already have something for that, you might be able to download something like the free version of BSplayer and it might use your already-installed DVD decoder. I only mention BSplayer because I think people like its screen capture feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris The Rock Posted August 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Thanks for your advice. Got a copy of PowerDVD, it worked great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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