I'm trying to capture DVD movie stills by pressing the

Print
Screen
SysRq

button, and then pasting it in paint and saving it as a .bmp. but the problem is that it doesn't get saved. the 'saved' picture just shows whatever the movie is currently showing. and when i take the DVD out the 'saved file just shows a black screen.

PowerDVD has an inbuilt 'stills' capture as does Media Player Classic and BSPlayer. There is also a very handy program called 'Image Grabber'.

Using the print screen button work for me with, jpg, or other web page images, and pasting into Paintshop Pro, however it doesn't work very well with some media player images. I've never used that method trying to capture DVD images though... I doubt if it works or it would have probably been mentioned more often.

If you buy a capture card for you computer with a 'TV in' slot, it's also very easy to capture quite decent DVD stills via your TV...

I have a capture card installed and use Winfast software to view and capture the images.

The simplest thing to do is to download Media Player Classic (it's free). By the way, the capture function does not have a preset shortcut, you can configure it in the options. Hope it helps

i lowered the hardware acceleration in the options of right clicking on the desktop, and then was able to copy from power DVD to paint.
thanks

i use power dvd - it has inbuilt capture feature....i use windvd too but i can't seem to find a capture feature in that (maybe cos it came free with the burner).

Pretty much what I did. I have a new puter now with Windows XPS, media player, etc. but could not find any way to make caps from DVD. So I ended up getting PowerDVD again, version 6 this time.

It works fine except I had to manually type in the pic dimensions I wanted, otherwise the pics were all squished. On the old version all I had to do was check off 'keep aspect ratio' to get proper sizing.

yes i would definately recommend media player classic...it's free and it often lets you play videos that other players tell you are corrupted. eg. if you try to preview an AVI that you are downloading in a p2p program. media player classic works for me. nero showtime also has a capture button but won't play all videos like media player classic (showtime might say a video is corrupted and yet media player classic still plays it). PowerDVD is good for playing DVDs and get still captures. As for my version of WinDVD, it doesn't have a capture feature but not sure about the latest versions.

i just spent the last few hours editing subtitles for Gloire De Mon Pere...i had a dvd with no english subtitles so i used a program called Subtitle Workshop which is great (and free). The program letes you edit subtitles, delays, and you can add time delays (+/-) for a a selection or all subs and you can preview it with the video. Now I can watch the movie again and understand what is being said! Then you can use a free program like VirtualDubMod to combine the subtitles with an AVI. It works great...just thought I'd let you all know in case you had the same problems as me, because these programs save a lot of time and effort.

this dvd was bought off ebay....the cover looks a bit dodgy so i think it is a pirate. however, i have bought a lot of dvd's that arent pirates and many of them have no subtitles at all which is annyoing esp. when a character mumbles soemthing that you can't understand. so i finished editing the subtitles, and now i can watch the movie properly...however, i dont think i will be watching it again for a while anyway, because to edit the subtitles i had to check each scene over and over again to make sure the subtitles matched up to the audio...i am sure i know the whole script off by heart by now!  lol