I know I’m being lazy by posting instead of researching but - hey- I’m too busy 
I’ve watched DVDs on my laptop (using WinDVD, not sure of version as I’m not home at the moment). I pause the movie.
I do a CTRL Printscreen. I open mspaint. I paste from the clipboard and - voila! The screen cap has everythong but the movie - it is a black rectangle.
Is WinDVD preventing the capture? How do I avoid this problem?
PS - It is not porn!
FWIW, the same thing happens in Window’s Media Player
What makes you think we aren’t busy too?
No, it is because it uses DirectX which writres directkly to the screen. Normal behavior.
I assume the reason you want to do a screen cap falls under fair use.
DVD’s don’t use the normal video method of drawing, thats why even with a 2 meg card you could watch collor correct DVD’s. They use an Overlay. Your DVD software has a fucntion to save screen saptures to the hard drive, you need to read the manual If you have version 4 the letter p will do a screen capture
WinDVD may very well be preventing the capture, for a very good reason; the program probably has its own built-in screen capture feature. I have this software on my computer at home, I’ll check it out later (if I remember). The other piece of DVD software I have on my other computer definitely has its own screen capture feature. Check the help file, and click on all the buttons on the console.
All the DVD software I’ve ever used have a little screencap feature. It’s usually a button on the player interface with a stills camera icon. It will either save the frame to the clipboard, or put it into a nominated folder on your HDD.
You may need to turn off any hardware acceleration, too.