You didn't give us much to go on.

Are you taking a snapshot of a high definition video or a standard definition video? hat are the propertiesa of the snapshot. Right clcik on it and select details.

What program are you using to view the image. I'm guessing that you are basing the observation on. .
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Thank you for replying. In PowerDVD9, you could go into the settings and on the Player tab you would click the "Advanced" button, then the Capture tab. There you could set the "Capture aspect ratio" ("current video window size" is one of the options). Selecting that, the screen capture image would be the same size as what you are viewing. If you're viewing in full screen mode, the image comes out full screen size.

In version 14, the only capture options (now called "Snapshot") are the Snapshot format (.jpg, .bmp or .png) and the directory where screen captures are saved. The snapshot comes out the size of the original, non-fullscreen video regardless of the size you are viewing the video in.

I tried .jpg, .bmp and .png file formats, and high definition and standard definition videos. Nothing made a difference.

Properties of one .jpg capture:
Dimensions: 640x480 pixels
Resolution: 96dpi
Bit depth: 24

Programs used to view image: IrfanView, MS Office Picture Manager, Windows Photo Viewer, even tried PowerDVD 14 (doesn't matter what program, the image is the size it is).

It captured the image at the dimentions and resolution of the video you were playing.

I captured a high defintion snapshot and got a 1920 by 1080 at the same 96 dpi as the monitor is set for.

Are you going to try to print the image? That would be the only place that the size and resolution would be an issue. .
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I appreciate your attempting to help, but how did you capture it at 1920x1080 (what my monitor is also set for)? What settings and where are they in PowerDVD14 to do that? Size and resolution is an issue to me because I use screenshots for wallpaper and just like larger pictures without having to resize in an image editing program.
Was the full screen capture just taken away in version 14 over version 9? I'm almost ready to just return the version 14 and get my money back because version 9 met my needs.

I did nothing special. Where are you getting the videos that you are working with. It sounds like a tablet or a low resolution camcorder. The resolution of the video is the controlling factor; at least it looks like it.

My monitor is actually set to 2560 by 1440. I was playing a 1920 by 1080 video.

Return V14 if you are within the return window since V9 (?) works for you. .
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Quote: My monitor is actually set to 2560 by 1440. I was playing a 1920 by 1080 video.

It would be helpful if you would tell us how you did this. You're not going to get a native 1920x1080 image from a DVD, and PowerDVD 14 disallows screen captures from a commercial Blu-ray disc.

The OP is asking how to do exactly what you said you did, so it would be helpful if you'd explain.

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Quote: My monitor is actually set to 2560 by 1440. I was playing a 1920 by 1080 video.

It would be helpful if you would tell us how you did this. You're not going to get a native 1920x1080 image from a DVD, and PowerDVD 14 disallows screen captures from a commercial Blu-ray disc.

The OP is asking how to do exactly what you said you did, so it would be helpful if you'd explain.

The OP talked about a snapshot from a DVD OR from a Video on his computer. I did the test with several videos already on my comp[uter. They were from camcorder recordings.

I put the bit about the monitor settings because that has no or little effect on the snapshot. .
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Quote: The OP talked about a snapshot from a DVD OR from a Video on his computer.

And clarified in the next paragraph that he was specifically taking about a DVD.

I did the test with several videos already on my comp[uter. They were from camcorder recordings.

Ahh, you left that bit out! That would have helped clarify what you were saying.

I understand that captures are made in the resolution of the image source, but it's a shortcoming of PDVD that it won't allow captures from BDs.

So I've come to the conclusion, even though it hasn't been said, that full screen snapshots (regardless of original video resolution) are not possible with PDVD14. That feature was apparently removed somewhere between version 9 and 14. I'll go back to 9.

Thank you Branais for your input as well.

Good luck with it, MrNoCal.

I think the point Steve was making is that PDVD 14 makes the screen capture at the resolution of the original video source, not the screen display at the time -- so a DVD obviously isn't going to give you (say) a 1920x1080 image as a capture.

I don't have experience of MKVs, so I can't offer my own comments there. And personally, I leapfrogged from an OEM copy of PDVD 8 to a bought copy of version 11, but I've had every version since then. I don't remember what screen capture functions were like in earlier versions, but it does surprise me, with PDVD obviously pushing to be the go-to application for all multimedia purposes, that some feature sets are being whittled down now.

I for one would be interested to hear how you get on with this. As I said, mate, good luck with it.