How do YOU take DVD screencaps?

[James]

I used to use a program by Ulead, and it worked incredibly well. Push "C," and the screenshot is saved to the folder. However, when I got my new computer, the program had a bug that caused my monitor to stop responding (so if it went into sleep mode, it wouldn't come back out). There was supposedly a patch on Ulead's site, but it the URL was bad, and I never got any response back from my emails.

My new computer came with a scaled-down version of PowerDVD, whish is essentially just there to work with Windows Media Center to run (WMC won't play if you uninstall PowerDVD). And the only way to take screencaps with that is via Print Screen, but even if you turn off accelleration, it doesn't work right (same with WMP).

Windows Media Center is my only way to take screencaps, and that's via Print Screen. However, if I take a screencap while paused, the media bar will show up in the image. I have to do it WHILE the video is playing. :/


So, I was wondering how YOU take screencaps, and how you obtained your program for it. I heard good things about PowerDVD, but I'm worried that Media Center won't work if I replace the copy that came with my system.