[vlc] Re: Screen grab from DVD playing in VLC 0.85

[Danko Dolch]

Hi Steven!

This is normal and can't work because VLC uses a so called "video overlay surface" that does'nt copy the video pixels into your windows desktop buffer from where Alt+Print takes the data. You only will capture a "key color" where VLC is inserting it's overlay. Not very useful ;-)

--> To get your screen grabs use the VLC function "Take video snapshot" by default Alt+Ctrl+s and a img file will be written to your harddisk.

You can set up file format and img path in the VLC Advanced Options (in the video section - video snapshot dir - file type and so on...)

Best regards

Danko
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steven Wood 
  To: vlc at videolan.org 
  Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 11:11 AM
  Subject: [vlc] Screen grab from DVD playing in VLC 0.85


  Hi,

   

  I'm struggling to take a snapshot (screen grab) of a DVD playing in the VLC player. The DVD is a in-house DVD and not commercial so there is no copy protection etc. When I try Alt-Printscreen and paste the copy into MSPaint or Word etc and click play again in VLC the screen I pasted into Word also starts to play.very strange. Can anyone tell me how to do this?

   

  Many thanks

   

  Steven


  (VLC Newbie)

   

   

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