Power Dvd Help

[MetDream]

My power DVD decided to just stop working. I have deleted it, reinstalled it, deleted it, removed all the registry values, reinstalled it, upgraded it, done all of this all over again... and it still keeps giving me an error message when I try to make it play: Power DVD has encounted a prolbem and needs to be shut donw, and then it just shuts down.

It really really sucks. I hate using windows media player (making screens shots using it is a pain in the ass). I can use nero but ti makes suck ass screens with video lines. I downlaoded the VLC media player but making screens with it sucks too, but that doesnt matter because it did the same thing and just errors on me.

Any ideas how to get power DVD to work on my computer again?

Thanks.

[jarrur]

VLC is great. Use the Preferences -> Video -> Filters (click the first "deinterlacing video filter" option) -> Deinterlace -> Display -> Linear ...to get rid off the "videolines". Then just start making screenshots.

[metmum]

My older version did this and I could never get it to work or find any solution for it. I ended up getting a newer version and that worked fine. Sorry for not being a help but maybe its something with the program.

[MetDream]

Yeah it is frustrating as hell.

VLC is great. Use the Preferences -> Video -> Filters (click the first "deinterlacing video filter" option) -> Deinterlace -> Display -> Linear ...to get rid off the "videolines". Then just start making screenshots.

Nero gave me the video lines. VLC wont work on my computer anymore.

[Speed Damage]

I gave up on PowerDVD because it was too much of a resource hog and filled with bloat.

I installed the Combined Community Codec Pack, which has every codec you'll need to play pretty much any type of video file out there, and it came with a player called Media Player Classic. I don't suggest you need to get the whole codec pack (I got it mostly because of HD video), but MPC has more options than you need for viewing videos, but is still small and lightwieght (and 100% free). I never used it to take screen shots, but I just checked it out and its a matter of just doing File > Save Image As and you can choose bmp and jpeg.

You can get it here: http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video ... lassic.cfm

[Metfan91_]

I haven't had any problems with it yet, thats weird its having problems

[slayerdiabolus]

Combined Community Codec Pack all the way!!! I can't fault it!