screen captures

[Smallvillian]

Okay--I know some places have them but I haven't found particulary great quality. I have a DVD player with my PC. Do I need special equipment to do screen captures or is there a way to do it since I have the player already built in? If so how would I? Thanks :)

[Disco]

I asume you want just an episode capture and not your eniter computer screen. You most likely need a capture program. Don't know if there are any free ones. I've used SnatchIt. And you need a tv card attached to your computer.

[Smallvillian]

I got a free one and every time I save something, as soon as I turn the DVD off the saved image goes black. Is it supposed to do that??

[Disco]

Uh, don't really know. What screen capture program. I know that I have a problem with 5 Clicks when trying to take a capture off a DVD playing on Windows Media.

[Tigress35]

The weird thing about DVDs is that what you see on your screen is actually NOT on your screen (I know it's weird, don't ask me to explain it cuz I couldn't) so when you do a normal screencapture it will only show black. On my Mac, I love DVDCapture, but I'm not sure what's out there for Windows.

[Disco]

Ahhh, no wonder it didn't work.

thanks :D

[Lax Lustre]

What DVD software do you use?
My drive came with PowerDVD 4.0 which allows me to pause a movie and capture a frame in .BMP format which can easily be converted to .jpeg for uploading. The limit for KS is 102400 bytes.

My friend uses WinmDVD but I don't know if this has the same facility