Capturing Images from Movies and DVDs

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When you play back movies or DVDs on your computer, the computer often uses a special mode to display the movie made for super efficiency, which can make capturing screenshot images result in a black region where the picture should be.

This causes people much confusion.

If you want to capture images of movies in your media player you have 2 choices.

•	Use a media player program specifically designed with a built-in screenshot funciton.

•	Turn off (temporarily) the "hardware/video acceleration" option in your media player (then exit and restart it). This should allow you to take screenshots. Most media player programs have an option for this somewhere.

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