I was watching Matrix Reloaded (yet again) on my computer this time. I tried to take a screenshot of Smith sticking his hand into Neo, but the screen of the movie turned out to be a black square. I tried focusing other programs so that no keyboard scripts are called when the Print Screen button is pressed, but nooo, they have to make it absolutely perfect.
I’m using WinDVD, and just cannot get any screenshot of the playing movie (even when paused). I will find a way around this. Why would any company make this secret? It’s not like I’m stealing pictures from DVD movies and selling them to the blackmarket for beer money. Nuh-uh.
I had this same issue with both Winamp and Windows Media Player when I was trying to take a screenshot of some video I was watching.
What was really weird was that if I left the video playing in the background and moved the canvas around in Photoshop, the “black” square would actually show the area of the video it was currently over.
I still haven’t figured out a way past this… It did this in MSPaint as well…
Yeah it did that for awhile, until it crashed my computer lol.
Man these decoder things are secure.
We had the same problem, or at least almost the same. I was using BSPlayer and Photoshop and after several screenshots I was able to get something like 600*25px pic of it. What’s the deal? :D
Wow so take screenshots of the screenshot? O.o
No :D Just taking screenshot after screenshot of the movie :D
I don’t want no screenshot of my Adobe :D
Can’t do it on a Mac either. Its for the copyright laws and all that MPAA crap.
I dont know of a way around it on Windoze, but I *think* i may have found one on the Mac. Not 100% though.
Aww I wish I had a Mac. Those patent companies make released public products so secure that you cannot steal a single part of it. But I will, some day. Muhahaha.
Must put this in here :P
“The problem is usually due to graphics hardware acceleration being used to display that image. The resulting “blank screen” effects all screen capture programs, even images captured using the PrintScreen key.
For example, this type of problem usually occurs if you’re trying to record a streaming media player or DVD player that is playing a movie. These players all use hardware acceleration to display images.
For streaming media players, the solution to your recording problem is to turn off hardware acceleration in the player before you try to record it.
DVD players, however, usually require hardware acceleration. So you may try disabling hardware acceleration on your desktop to see if that allows you to record your DVD player, but then the DVD player probably will not work.”
Oh wow! that just proves that I do have a graphics card!
How would I go about turning off hardware acceleration? O.o
Read this you bunch of fools :P
1. Right-click the desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshooting > Hardware acceleration: None
Bypass graphics card
2. Press the print screen key on your keyboard.
Saves the entire desktop as an image to the clipboard.
3. Paste into your favourite graphics editor. Even paint will do.
Now you can see what was saved. From here you can do what you like with it, saving might be a good idea wink.gif
4. Right-click the desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshooting > Hardware acceleration: Full (or whatever it was beforehand)
Return graphics settings back to normal
I tried it and it works, but the quality of the screen grab is compromised. It is pixelated.
Is there another way of doing this.
Some of my friends can do this with their dvd player software automatically. Anybody know how to do it with software?
BTW Thanks for the comments gnu and max
WinDVD supports taking screenshots of DVD’s. I think the latest version that supports that is WinDVD6. That’s what I’ve been using.