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Can't get that to work
Authored by: monsterjaeger on Oct 02, '01 11:43:47AM

I'm using X.1 (5G64) and SnapzPro and the trick you described would lead to the same old problems when capturing from DVD. MacOS X disables the screenshot key as soon as DVD Player is running. With your trick Im able to invoke Snapz Pro's capture routine. But the screenshot is a completely blank file. All captured screen space it white. Funny is the icon of the screenshotfile looks like a correct captured thumbnail, bu still has a black hole where the DVD image should be. Just like the one you get when capturing in MacOS 9. The DVDs I tried were "End of days" (Region Code 2) and even a self burned DVD (region Code 0, unencrypted). It's not cool not to be able to capture from DVDs I legally bought for personal use but it's terribly annoying that I can't get to the content I produced myself and certainly have the rights on...



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Interesting...
Authored by: robg on Oct 02, '01 01:30:46PM

I just tried on my G4/350 with an ATI PCI Rage Pro 128 ... and got exactly what you described. But at home last night (G4/733 with NVidia GeForce3), I took screenshots. It appears to have something to do with the video card drivers, I would guess (probably wrong, but that's my guess!).

-rob.



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Can't get that to work
Authored by: brodie on Oct 08, '01 07:13:57AM

Are you taking screenshots or movie shots? i tried movie shots with 10.1final on G4 400 ATI, didn't get it to work either. in fact, snapz pro 1.0.0 makles everything 'drag' unbelievably.
if i play the movie saved the DVD running in the background appears 'through' the player window, even stranger.



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nVidia vs. ATI
Authored by: robg on Oct 08, '01 09:55:11AM

I was taking screenshots. I can confirm that it only appears to work on machines running nVidia cards - my G4/350 at work doesn't handle it correctly, nor does a friend's ATI machine. The G4 with the nVidia, though, works fine.

Some difference in either the hardware or the drivers, I guess.

-rob.



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