[Kie99]

I want to take screenshots of a DVD, and read somewhere that you can only do this if you turn off hardware acceleration.  How do I do this?

Please no-one send me a link for a player that takes screenshots, when I try that the images got all streched for some reason.

[Taristin]

right click on the desk top.
click properties.
settings tab.
advanced button.
troubleshoot tab.

[Fury]

...I think this hardware acceleration reference refer's the the video hardware acceleration settings in your DVD-player software...

[Sandwich]

DVD players usually render the picture to what's called an "overlay layer". This is a layer that is only generated after the point where Windows grabs its screenshot data from. This is why a simple Print Screen usually doesn't work.

Many dedicated screen grabbers will grab data after the overlay layer point, thus grabbing the DVD picture as well. The other option is, like you said, to force the DVD player to render its image via Windows' interface by disabling the hardware acceleration.

[Kie99]

So how do I turn it off in Windows Media Player?

[karajorma]

You don't. You turn it off for Windows from the display control panel like Raa suggested.

[Ransom]

Originally posted by kietotheworld
So how do I turn it off in Windows Media Player?

Go into the Options menu, Performance tab and change the Video acceleration slider to None.

[Kie99]

Tried that, I still just get a blank area where the DVD screen should be.