Screenshot from a dvd?

Vikings

Is it possible to take a screenshot from a DVD? I'm using VLC player and paint with the normal Print Screen + paste method but when I paste it into paint it shows the film playing and not the actual screenshot I wanted to take. Any ideas?

Chalk

right click on your desktop
properties
settings
asdvanced
troubleshooting
disable hardware acceleration

printscreen

Kingsize

power dvd player has a snapshot option if you can pick up a copy of that youl'll be laughin

Vikings

Tried the hardware acceleration option and there is no way i can live with the quality of image that it produces.

I have powerDVD on a cd somewhere around here, just have to find it...

Standard Toaster

It's video overlay that's stopping you from getting the image on print screen.
As suggested, use Power DVD.

Giblet

Media Player Classic also have a screenshot option in the file menu.

Syth

There's a great Linux programme called mplayer that plays just about everything (and open source too). One of the neat things it can do is output every fram,e as a image file to the current directory. A greate way to fill up your hard disk.

Gosh

The_Edge wrote:

It's video overlay that's stopping you from getting the image on print screen.
As suggested, use Power DVD.

With PowerDVD just press C to capture

Vikings

Dug out my copy of powerDVD and it works a treat, thanks guys.