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Cant capture DVD screen as JPEG

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by tokunbo007

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Pls, I have 2-quesitons:
Im watching a DVD and I pause the player, and try to capture the paused-screen and save as a JPEG file. After pasting the captured screen in paint, the whole thing is just black., doesnt capture... Why is this so?

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by Former member

I think you have captured it, but when you place it in paint it is mostly a large file so you will have to resize it in paint.
I hope this helps.

by tokunbo007

the problem actually is that the pasted 'screen capture' is black. I even tried saving the captured screen, quit DVD, then opened the image again, but it was just black.

by Former member

Have you tried "CTRL + PRINT SCRN" on your keyboard then put this into a "word doc or paint". So instead of "capture" just use your computer keyboard keys as mentioned above. Hope this works for you.

by tokunbo007

yes definitely. and ctrl+printscreen was how i captured the black page. I put it into a Word.doc/Wordpad etc, the same thing...black page.Ofcourse the desktop(background) is captured, but the DVD paused screen isnt

by fdiaz693

you know use a software call nero7
or cyberlink
also you can use intervideo windvd thats will work for you

by older mycroft

That way you won't even have to pause the DVD. Pausing CAN cause a slight degradation to the on-screen image.

Run IrfanView first, setup and activate the screen capture routine to suit you, then run your DVD player.

At the required point, invoke the Screen Capture either once or many times. You can choose jpeg or any other file format you want.

When you close / minimize your DVD screen IrfanView will be 'holding' your captured files for you, or you can choose to save directly to a HDD directory.

The reason you have been unable to see the capture is because you have been capturing the background of the DVD image. The DVD image is not inherently part of the screen display - it 'floats' on the top of it, you have been capturing the shadow, so to speak.

by tokunbo007

thanks for the information. I tried all you said, but I still can't captture the image...from DVD to Infranview.

heres what happens: after running InFranview in the backgroud, playing the DVD and stopping at my intended shot, fine...so i hit the InFranView hotkey and the capture goes into the intended save-directoryetc. At this point, i can open the saved image using paint. Next if i close both DVD and InFranView and try to open the image by itself, it goes back to the black blank screen. I even tried re-capturing the captured screen - to no avail

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