PS: The black screen is because most dvd/video players play the video in a hardware overlay(kind of like another screen playing on top of your screen) what you are actually capturing is the overlay key colour(black usually). For example if you have Winamp the visualizations can be played full screen in overlay mode(temporarily changes the desktop background colour, then plays on the desktop) which uses less system resources than full screen. Some graphics cards will let you disable 'Hardware acceleration', which should force the player to play in regular Windows desktop, instead of in a hardware overlay. A lot of the time though, the player just won't play!