Kat DVD workings I've got a few great anime DVDs here but a small problem arises from them. What I want to do is to take a still shot of a scene and make it into a wallpaper (for personal useage only, I don't want to break any copyright laws). So far whenever I try I get an image that for some reason when ever I move the screen the image stays in the exact same place on the screen (so if it was on the centre of the screen, I move the screen to the left, and it's still on the centre) Also I was wanting to get some sounds from another DVD to create a sound scheme sort of thing. (again, for personal uses only) If you guys could help me out, I would really apreciate it... And if what I want to do is breaking copy rights... Please don't hurt me. Rockman.EXE Leeching data from a DVD is a complicated thing. When you play a DVD, usually depending on the decoder, it goes through a hardware decoder located on your video card. From there, it streams data from your video buffer through your OS into your monitor. Most video capture programs, on the other hand, do not have access to the video buffer on your video card; only system memory stored in RAM. That's why when you try to capture a video still, it doesn't capture properly. The data in your capture program is referencing data in your video buffer so it can only display what's currently in your video buffer. What it saves, on the other hand, is usually a blank file which your OS was using to reference to a location in your video buffer. Rockman.EXE Unless you can dump your data to RAM, either by using a DVD player that decodes to system memory, which isn't likely due to DeCSS issues, or by fooling your system by playing tricks with your player, like pausing it, then minimizing and restoring the player, the only way you can take a screen capture is using a DeCSS program to rip the data file and decode it into a normal video stream. Depending on your player, pausing it and minimizing it forces the program to seek to the nearest keyframe and dump that to system memory. That way, it can manipulate it like a normal 'window' without having to move stuff around in your video buffer. Sometimes, however, it still doesn't work. Rockman.EXE Sadly, this is the same for both PC and Macintosh computers. It favors neither when it comes to video capturing of video overlays like the ones DVD use. You'd have to decrypt the entire DVD onto your computer and use a video editing program to grab the frames you need. Roll.EXE As for grabbing sounds, on a PC, you can go to your 'volume control' mixer which should be in your start up tray. It's the icon that looks like a little yellow megaphone. Under your options, you can select 'properties' and choose 'recording' for adjusting volume. In the scroll box, make sure 'wave/direct sound' is checked off. When you hit 'ok', select 'Wave/Direct Sound' in the checkbox selection and when you record, it should record anything that plays out of your wave device, like your DVD player. If that doesn't work, you can also check 'What you Hear' and see if that works. Roll.EXE On a Mac, you can do something similar. If either is too complicated, going to the store and purchasing a double ended stereo headphone cord and plugging your speaker out into your microphone in and hitting record should work too. You just won't be able to tell what you're recording. Blues.EXE Good luck. Radical Edward Ne...ne...Kat-chan, there are a buncha of Screen Capture programs out there. Has Kat-chan tried any? Edward likes TechSmith's SnagIt, but plenty of others are floating around the net. Some are try-for-free shareware, and some freeware. Edward likes SnagIt, because Edward can bind the capture to a key combo, so Edward can put the screen just-so and have Edward sure only what Edward wants captured is on-screen and then Edward hits the three-button combo (no, not Ctrl-Alt-Del, silly Kat-chan) and *poof* Screen Captured! Little fuss, little muss, and a buncha output formats. Edward thinks the Rockman-gumi have said all the stuff about audio already so Edward will butt out on that. Otakon Hmm, well, on the Mac side, you can use screecap software like SnapzPro X that will let you grab stills from DVDs if you so want it. As for audio, the best I can suggest is to use a program like Audio Hijack to redirect audio output from your app to a file, and thereby recording it.