"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
news:49638df2$1@news.povray.org...
>>> EVERYTHING IS UNDER THE ADVANCED TAB!!
>>>
>>> [I have no idea why...]
>>
>>   Well, yeah, possibly, but it still isn't obvious what 'Use Overlays' 
>> means.
>>
>>    (Unless you read a manpage of course).
>
> It means basically that the video data isn't rendered into the main 
> framebuffer, it's "overlaid" onto the image by the video hardware. Thus, 
> when you hit the printscreen button and the framebuffer gets copied... no 
> image!

    Ah, ok, understood.


>
> Doing it this way given better performance - hence Warp's suggestion to 
> turn it back on after. ;-)

    Heh, well I've just turned it back on and noticed that there is another 
field for 'Use Overlays' in the DVD Video section! I assume this does 
exactly the same thing when playing a DVD?

      ~Steve~

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