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rieekan333
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388 Posts
3/02
Posted - Mar 7 2004 : 9:54PM
Hey guys,

This morning PowerDVD is working fine. I go to sleep without having made any changes to the program or my system (that I can remember at any rate). I wake up and suddenly PowerDVD isn't taking screen captures right.

The captures are the correct dimensions but instead of an image they're solid green. I've tried taking captures from a number of DVDs, including ones that worked only hours ago but I'm still just getting green.

Reinstalling hasn't helped. Any ideas or suggestions?

daviangel
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Only time I would buy a girl flowers is if she was in the hospital
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1/04
Posted - Mar 7 2004 : 11:05PM
I don't know if it's a bug in powerdvd 5 that's what I use. I know how to fix it though on my computer anyways you need to click on configuration and under video tab uncheck hardware acceleration if it's checked. After that screen captures should work.

mookiemeister
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181 Posts
7/02
Posted - Mar 8 2004 : 1:32AM
I also use PowerDVD. How do you do screen capture with PowerDVD? I can try it on my program and see if it works in my PC.

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daviangel
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Only time I would buy a girl flowers is if she was in the hospital
455 Posts
1/04
Posted - Mar 8 2004 : 4:11AM
first button on menu says capture frame.
rieekan333
Member

388 Posts
3/02
Posted - Mar 8 2004 : 6:22AM
daviangel, thank you! Disabling hardware acceleration has fixed the screen capturing. Although I swear that up to this point hardware acceleration has been enabled and screen capturing worked ... Anyhow, thanks again

mookiemeister, you can also press "c" every time you want to capture a frame. By default PowerDVD captures to clipboard, but you can also capture to wallpaper or to a BMP file.

 
daviangel
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Only time I would buy a girl flowers is if she was in the hospital
455 Posts
1/04
Posted - Mar 8 2004 : 9:56AM
no prob
But that's why I think it's a bug in powerdvd. It happened to me the other day too and I could've swore I didn't have any problems before with it?
It could be that only certain dvd's have this problem?
rieekan333
Member

388 Posts
3/02
Posted - Mar 8 2004 : 12:32PM
I see what you're saying. Pretty strange (and apparently random) bug but I guess that's why it's a bug.
Saki
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Posted - Mar 8 2004 : 10:44PM
PowerDVD and every other program that uses hardware acceleration will result in blank captures if you turn the acceleration feature on. That's because it uses a video overlay that basically sends the DVD video to the video card instead of rendering it along with the rest of the screen in the CPU. That's why even screen captures of the whole screen will show a blank black or green box where the video should be.

- Saki [faqs]

rieekan333
Member

388 Posts
3/02
Posted - Mar 9 2004 : 1:22AM
Thanks for the clarification Saki, what you said makes a lot of sense.
Crucifixio_Jones
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4727 Posts
10/03
Posted - Mar 16 2004 : 1:02AM
I have PowerDVD XP for Sony Vaio and I don't think I have a screen capture option...if I do, I don't see it.
rieekan333
Member

388 Posts
3/02
Posted - Mar 17 2004 : 11:04PM
Crucifixio, load PowerDVD and open:

Configuration > Player Setting > Advanced > Snapshot.

If you have that menu tab that's a fairly good indication you can take screen captures I can provide a screenshot of what that looks like on my computer if you like.

Alternatively, press 'C' while you're watching a DVD and check your clipboard (copying to clipboard is the default setting).

If neither of those work then you probably don't have a snapshotting function, but I would be very surprised if that was the case!

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