DVD Screenshots
 

I don't know if anyone can answer this or not. I was just wondering if anyone around here knew of a good program that you can use to get screen shots off of games and DVD's



Blaze DTGG

For games, most emulators should have a sceenshot capability.

For DVDs, I don't know of any specific programs that can take screenshots, but you can always simply pause the DVD while it's playing in your DVD-ROM drive, pause it, press Ctrl+PrtScr (or is it Alt+PrtScr), and then edit the screenshot in a photo editing program.

There's also a program called SnagIt, but it's not freeware, just to warn you.

the biggest problem I have found has been that it will show the DVD window in the image editor and a Black box where the image should be. I am not sure if it has something to do with the software the DVD is playing in or what.

Blaze DTGG

It does that for me too.

and I know that they make programs that can do it. because I have seen DVD ScreenShots on websites.

I just havent been able to find any programs that work.

Blaze DTGG

Yeah, I have looked too for good programs, but have had no success.

Don't let that first try make you give up...

Yes, the black screen appars once in a while when I try to make screen caps too, but there's a little trick to getting by that, at least using Windows Media Player: have the player be on top when you cap the screen with the photo editor below it, paste the image into the editor, and then edit out the unneeded portion(s). Even after a second time, just keep trying, it'll eventually work.

Don't believe me? Check out the screen caps of the Technodrome submitted by Brent Haskins (that's me) on the main site...the method described above is 100% how I got them, using nothing more than Microsoft Paint ;)

Of course, the only get-it-the-first-time way guaranteed is to use SnagIt, but you gotta pay for it after 30 days or something. But it's worth it, IMO: you can select certain regions to capture without the hassle of using an image editor, the entire active window can be capped without having to memorize certain key combinations, and a bunch of other options.

It still doesn't work, what version of windows do you have?

I will have to try again when I get home. but I have tried for DAYS to get screen shots off of different DVD's and nothing.. nada.. just black.. IF i am lucky..

Blaze DTGG

1. 98SE

2. Keep trying is all I can tell you, that's what I had to do to get those screen caps.

i have windows XP......

and yeah.. I will.. its just getting frustrating..

Blaze DTGG