Screenshot/print screen question....

[BRL]

Hi all. I know you can press 'Print Screen' and it copies to Notepad. Well, when I do it and have a look, it has only caught half of the screen shot.
Here is what happens. I wanted a screenshot from a dvd. It is the film 'Kill Bill' where near the start, Uma knocks on a door and when the other person answers it there is a close up of Uma's eyes. I paused it and hit 'Print Screen', hoping to edit and print out the picture. No joy. It only done half of the screen shot not all of it.
Is there any setting I am missing here?
Ta...
Brl.

[ORAC]

The problem may be due to graphics hardware acceleration being used to display the image. Try disabling it. Go to Control Panel - Display - Properties - Settings Advanced - Troubleshooting in Windows 2000 or XP; or Control Panel - System - Performance tab - Graphics - Advanced settings in Win98 etc. Slide the Hardware Acceleration slider to None.

Otherwise it might be down to the system using DirectX. There are a lot of shareware screen grabbers out there which can do it, but they'll cost you about $20-30.

[E-Liam]

Hi BRL,

This one is freeware, and I've used for a while now..

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

The benefit is that you just click on the print screen button, and select the specific image area from the screen. This saves having to muck about with cropping etc.

Cheers

Liam

[spannersatcx]

What are you using to watch DVD's (software) as some have the ability to grab frames/screen shots. Read the readme or help file for the software, you might get lucky.

[Naples Air Center, Inc.]

BRL,

I just use the Capture Feature in the DVD Player Software. It is usually called something like Capture or Snapshot. The snapshot images can be saved as high quality BMP files, to the Clipboard or as Desktop Wallpaper.

http://www.gocyberlink.com/uploadweb/english/products/images/snapshot.jpg

If you need a good DVD Player, Cyberlink's PowerDVD (http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/products/product_main.jsp?ProdId=28) is excellent.

Take Care,

Richard

[BRL]

Thanks all, I have been a tad busy recently but I will try and give this a go over the next day or two.
Cheers. :)

[BRL]

I can capture the image but it doesn't show what should be on the screen, it is blank as you can see..... http://www.btinternet.com/~paul.evans28/ScreenShot002.jpg
Getting the screen is not a problem now, it is just nothing on the dvd will show, just blank as you can see here..... :confused:

[ORAC]

I refer you to the answer given to this question here - I tried to capture Media Player or Real Player, Why do I grab only a blank, black screenshot? (http://www.any-capture.com/faqs.html#blankimage).

Then refer you to my answer above, reference hardware acceleration. :}

[BRL]

Hi Orac. When I tried that I got the error Create overlay failed. Please lower your screen resolution or color depth and try again. I can't lower my screen resolution as it wont go lower than 800x640 and the color thing makes no difference either. Can't even play a dvd now without that error coming up...!!!!:confused:

(in case anyone is wondering what the wallpaper is, it is Squirt from Finding Nemo... ) :ok:

[ORAC]

What version of Windows are you using?

[BRL]

.aaah, sorry, it's XP home.....

[nooluv]

on the same subject i am using m.s, f.s. 2002 and would like to capture some screen shots. I use 2000 pro, but need my graphics accelerator up full to fly the aircraft. Also where do I save it to?
Can anybody help? please.
Mal.com........

[ORAC]

1. Either put the accellerator setting back where it was, or lower your resolution to 800x600 and using high color (65 thousand).

2. make sure you have all the required updates (http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Support.jsp) installed.

3.

[Naples Air Center, Inc.]

BRL,

I might be wrong, but I think I remember something about pressing the letter "P" for screen capture with WinDVD but it has been a long time since I last used that program.

Take Care,

Richard

P.S. It always helps when you list the name of the program in question when troubleshooting. ;)

[BRL]

Hi all. I have downloaded and installed all of the updates except for the win installer 2 that would not set up, wrong OS error or something similar. Still no joy. I tried pressing P but nothing happened even when pressing ctrl and shift with P, no joy.
Using Intervideo WIndvd, it came with the Toshiba dvd drive that I bought.

[spannersatcx]

Are you sure you haven't actually captured the scree shots?

From the website -

How do I use still image capture?


You can capture a still image during movie playback. Press the P key at any time to capture a BMP file of the current frame. Capture does not work on zoomed regions and on some hardware motion compensation graphics chips. If you are experiencing problems with capture, disable the hardware motion compensation and try capturing again.
Captured images are stored in the Capture subdirectory of the WinDVD directory on your hard drive. Captured files are numbered sequentially: cap001.bmp, cap002.bmp, and so on.

[BRL]

Update, problem solved. Downloaded the programme Richard reccommends and all is well. Picture printed out no problems. Thanks for all your help. Brl. :ok:

[BRL]

Here is what all the fuss has been about(from the film 'Kill Bill' and on a t-shirt now).............. http://www.btinternet.com/~paul.evans28/PDVD_001.jpg
:ok: :ok: :ok:

[Naples Air Center, Inc.]

BRL.

That is great news. Enjoy the T-Shirt. :ok:

Take Care,

Richard