Posted October 20, 200915 yr Every single time I try to capture an image from a DVD (tried 4 different dvd players including WMP 11) and with whatever application (tried 3 different screen cap apps) - the information goes blank when I try to re-open it in PS. Is this some super- protection scheme to stop me making my own images from DVDs ? *puzzled* other screen caps are fine... "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
October 20, 200915 yr Yeah cause it's an active image(video) Download VLC media player ta-dah! it has a built-in screen capper http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t136/varan92/sc_ii_2.png
October 20, 200915 yr Author I'll try.... edit... thanks Tyla... that works... OMG I tried b4 work for an hour, then I tried for an hour and a half after work and then now it works... I think you deserve another grenade for that... you can always get another one cheers Edited October 20, 200915 yr by mandatory05 "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
October 20, 200915 yr I have just being through the same thing Sandy if I had saw the thread earlier I would have given you the same advice. VLC FTW BABY! Also guys if your having trouble make sure you have the latest codec pack for your operating systems. http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/VisOne_Photo/Signatures%20and%20Banners/VisP.png
October 20, 200915 yr There is a way to do it (from memory with Windows XP - perhaps Vista, don't know about 7) without VLC. You need to get in to your Settings from the Desktop (right click) and turn Graphic Acceleration down from Full to Minimum. Now it works. http://imgur.com/e5y6e.gif You've already ruined these forums for me, I have no desire to read your rhetoric or the pathetic arguments you get yourself in to, or the personal vendetta you have against me, so please, do not talk to me. Ever. About anything.
October 20, 200915 yr Author Strange thing... like S.O.P. - I believe you, it's just a strange thing... that the memory should be like this... seems like (yet) another credibility hole in Windows... I had all sorts of strange things happening when I tried to copy the screen caps before... weird graphics memory things... "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
October 20, 200915 yr By the wierd Graphic Memory thing. Do you mean when you hit the PrtScn Button and paste it into Paint or another graphics program does the picture kinda just vanish as soon as you Close the movie/WMP? It's happend to me heaps before but yeah like the above post's say ^ VLC is awsome best media player fo sho. http://imageshack.com/a/img538/2069/C6k7ld.png
October 20, 200915 yr Author I have been involved in graphics and 3D stuff for years now... but there was some strange things that I am not quite sure how to explain... relates (or must relate to) windows and contexts or something because a static screen cap would be scrollable... and show more than in the original cap region but when saved would show up blank when reopened... if the first cap was capped again in another app (which I tried a couple of times) re-screencapping the screen cap with another s-w tool to see if I could jump it out of whatever messy little hole it was in it was the same... that's what I mean about a hole... recursive thingymajigs... "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
October 20, 200915 yr Author Ahhh - the tech guru hath arrived. Pill_Monster, your technological holiness , just out of interest - is there something about the allocation of video graphics memory (from DVD) in XP Pro 32which makes it such a goddamn epic task to squeeze screen caps out ? I mean, VLC (a la the advice of Tyla works fine but) it seems like a strange video/graphics system hiccup. Edited October 20, 200915 yr by mandatory05 "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
October 21, 200915 yr cap region but when saved would show up blank when reopened... ... Yeah thats what i meant. ;p http://imageshack.com/a/img538/2069/C6k7ld.png
October 21, 200915 yr Strange thing... like S.O.P. - I believe you, it's just a strange thing... that the memory should be like this... seems like (yet) another credibility hole in Windows... I had all sorts of strange things happening when I tried to copy the screen caps before... weird graphics memory things... It's probably the way Windows interfaces with DirectX/OpenGL through the hardware. Turning Graphic Acceleration to minimum (or off) makes it a purely software thing so screencaps are now possible. I do remember finding an article about it when faced with the same dilemma. I screenprinted a Cowbell shirt from a screencap of a Will Ferrell DVD. http://imgur.com/e5y6e.gif You've already ruined these forums for me, I have no desire to read your rhetoric or the pathetic arguments you get yourself in to, or the personal vendetta you have against me, so please, do not talk to me. Ever. About anything.
October 21, 200915 yr Ahhh - the tech guru hath arrived. Pill_Monster, your technological holiness , just out of interest - is there something about the allocation of video graphics memory (from DVD) in XP Pro 32which makes it such a goddamn epic task to squeeze screen caps out ? I mean, VLC (a la the advice of Tyla works fine but) it seems like a strange video/graphics system hiccup. Not really, movie playbackis more to do with the processor than the RAM. What kind of files are you trying to play? And what GPU/CPU setup do you have? Your movies should be playing back at around 25 fps... You'll only get DXVA Hardware Acceleration when playing certain file types, and it depends whether or not your GPU has MPEG2 decoding ability. Otherwise all the decoding will be done by your CPU (which is prob what's happening in your case). Depending on the amount of Post Processing involved (deinterlacing, deblocking, etc) it can really bog down your CPU due to the number of threads involved. This is the area where quad core CPU's really shine over Dual Core's. Oh and VLC is good as an all round player, but it really struggles when playing DVD's. Better to go with something like PowerDVD, WinDVD, or even MPCHC for DVD playback. EDIT: lmao - I just realized that the above really has nothing to do with your question .... No is the answer, you just need to use the right application. Use FRAPS for 3D capping because I don't think VLC can cap games (wrong codecs)...never tried tbh, so I could be wrong. Wat program are you trying to open your screenshots with? Edited October 21, 200915 yr by seo iphone [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
October 21, 200915 yr Author Oh... it's solved now with the introduction, stage left, of VLC. I was screencapping with a few different things and opening them in PS CS3 "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
October 22, 200915 yr Just FYI this problem is caused by something called "Video Overlay". As far as Windows is concerned, your media player is just a big off-black box with a bunch of controls at the bottom. After the software has drawn that, the graphics card will then go and overwrite that off-black box with the movie itself, before sending everything on to the screen. It's a bit of a hack (I think it's been removed from newer versions of windows) but it means that video processing can skip several layers of software and be done directly by the GPU. Using VLC's screen cap is generally the easiest way around it. Funsperiment: Open that black image in PS and draw something over the top of it. Then play a movie in the background (leave it open, but cover it with the PS window). You'll see what I'm talking about.
October 22, 200915 yr Author Interesting... pity we can't transform it into a full-blown security bug/memory-leak... "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
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