What a nice MSPaint/PowerDVD bug!

Paper Carnival · Thu 01/04/2004 11:43:41

Dunno if this has been brought up before, but don't kill me if it has. I saw this on a different forum a loooooong time ago and now all of a sudden I remembered it and got the desire to post it.

Anyway... While watching a dvd movie (I tried with PowerDVD, maybe other software will also work) hit the "Print Scrn" button on your keyboard. Then, without pausing or stopping the movie paste it in MSPaint. You'll now be watching the movie with MSPaint!

Gilbert · Thu 01/04/2004 11:49:23

This is not a bug, it is a feature.

* Gilbot V7000a actually doesn't know what he's talking about, as he doesn't have a DVD drive and never used PowaDVD.

Evil · Thu 01/04/2004 11:56:49

Its a thing they set so you couldnt take screen shots of DVDs. Dunno how to do it by how you explained, but it sounds cool.

Darth Mandarb · Thu 01/04/2004 12:02:08

That works in Photoshop too.

It pastes a 'blue screen' looking image and where ever you move the image around that 'square' area shows the movie.

It's a stupid little, "we don't want you taking screen caps" kind of thing.

Didn't know it worked in Paint as well.

~ d

shbaz · Thu 01/04/2004 12:02:43

Quote from: Evil on Thu 01/04/2004 11:56:49
Its a thing they set so you couldnt take screen shots of DVDs. Dunno how to do it by how you explained, but it sounds cool.

Aha.. but what if you save the bmp file?

Paper Carnival · Thu 01/04/2004 12:36:58

QuoteAha.. but what if you save the bmp file?

wherever the movie window was (it also works when you print screen it on windowed mode) you can now see a beautiful dark solid purple rectangle...

YOke · Thu 01/04/2004 12:43:42

Sit back and listen to old Uncle YOke's explanation of what happens...

I used this trick a way back to block out subtitles encoded underneath a widescreen movie. It's not because you're not supposed to take screen captures, but because the video is using overlay. This means that the image you capture will have the color 255,0,255 instead of the picture. That's right, good old pink. Then the overlay function bypasses Windows' own gfx buffer and replaces the color pink with the image. This is done because of speed issues. Since PrintScr only captures the Windows gfx buffer it will get only the pink and no image. What I did was to make an image with pink in the middle and black bars on the top and bottom. I maximized the player window and switched to ACDSee and showed my image in full screen. The image came through the pink and was blocked by the black. Bye bye annoying Chinese subtitles on Star Wars LaserDisc Rip. (No offense to Chinese people, you're propably cool!)

Paper Carnival · Thu 01/04/2004 13:09:15

Hehe, I was sure the reason is something like that

Peter Thomas · Thu 01/04/2004 13:23:57

You go to that much trouble to avoid subtitles?

Most of the time they're funnier than the movie itself...

YOke · Thu 01/04/2004 13:42:23

Wasn't that much trouble really, but yeah... I did...

And yes the subtitles can be funny...once or twice maybe. But this was Star Wars! I've watched those movies a MILLION-TRILLION TIMES!!!

Esseb · Thu 01/04/2004 14:48:29

I agree, the Chinese subtitles on some of my movies are simply hilarious. It's like they get the only person in their office who know a bit of the language to subtitle it in Chinese with no regard for quality.

Sam. · Thu 01/04/2004 20:32:20

They're obscene? anyone seen rugrats the movie with subtitles? oh man. Tommy has serious potty mouth
"f**k off CHuckie you slit a*s C*nt face"
"shut the f**k up Tommy you a**hole"

sweet jesus ....

Yellow is a Flavor · Thu 01/04/2004 23:44:20

Its a thing they set so you couldnt take screen shots of DVDs. Dunno how to do it by how you explained, but it sounds cool.

Hmm. A little bizarre, since the 'C' key takes DVD screencaps in PowerDVD anyway...