Taking Screenshots from DVDs or Media Player is a serious problem for any screen capturing or video recording tool.
A large part of screen capturing software captures standard Windows output instead of DirectX output while DVD, Windows Media Player, Internet movies and other streaming videos use DirectX output to accelerate a drawing. Note, most of modern graphical cards use built-in hardware accelerators to draw DirectX scenes. Unfortunately, DirectX uses its own output system and can't be captured via the common Windows GDI interface.
For this reason, taking screenshots from DVDs requires a special approach.
Mr. Captor has the magic 'Prevent Black Screen' option
to protects a user from the 'black screen' effect.
Solution. Step-By-Step instructions:
If you see a 'black screen' as the result of capture, turn on the 'Prevent Black Screen' option at the Preferences | Other page.Note: You should turn on this option before a DVD or Media Player gets started!
If the result of capture is still a 'black screen', turn off the hardware acceleration:
- Go to the Start Menu and select Settings->Control Panel.
- From the list view, select Display Properties and select the last page titled Settings.
- Find the Advanced button and then choose Troubleshooting.
- There you will find a slider control for hardware acceleration. Move that slider to None, then click OK button.
Note: In a few cases this solution doesn't work, however. It occures very rarely, but it occures. If it takes place, try another DVD player.
Unfortunately, this problem has no completed solution so far. But we are working on it. Download for free a trial version of Mr. Captor and try our solution to see whether it helps you. To learn more about Mr. Captor abilities, visit its page at: http://www.fox-magic.com/mrcaptor.html
If the above doesn't help, please email us and describe the problem more precisely.
Please also specify:
- The type of computer you are using.
- The operating system you are using (i.e. Windows 95, Windows 2000...).
- What you did to correct the problem.
You can also visit our support forum at: http://support.fox-magic.com
We hope this problem will be completely solved in future.
You may also be interested in video capturing rather than grabbing still images.
Mr. Captor can capture any screen activity and save it as
AVI file, but it has some limitations, however, because it is mainly intended to capture
still images.
For example, Mr. Captor doesn't record a sound.
Our another product ScreenVirtuoso eliminates this
disadvantage by providing the ability of recording video and sound.
ScreenVirtuoso enables you to record desktop activity and save the clip as AVI file, which can also be converted to MPEG 1/2 VCD/SVCD/DVD,SWF (Macromedia Flash) compatible formats. The program can limit recording to a selected window or a rectangle area on the screen. The program also captures DirectX output properly, which can often result in black screens during regular screen captures. You can choose to record audio and optionally annotate a scene with various shapes or speech bubbles. The program is easy to use, you can pause/resume recording via keyboard hotkeys, and also adjust the frame rate to achieve higher or lower quality videos.
ScreenVirtuoso has the 'Prevent Black Screen' option as well.
To learn more about ScreenVirtuoso, visit its site at: http://www.screenvirtuoso.com
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