Method and apparatus for capturing screen based on wddm

Abstract

The present invention relates to a technique of capturing screen. It discloses a method for capturing screen based on WDDM, which is aimed at solving the problem that the existing techniques are not suitable for Vista. The method comprise the steps of outputting commands of drawing image by an image display processing engine; analyzing the commands of drawing image by a filter driver, determining whether a display adapter can execute the commands in accordance with the registered capacities of the display adapter, and transmitting the commands to the display adapter if the display adapter can execute the commands; generating image data to be displayed in accordance with the commands by the display adapter, and transmitting the generated image data back to the filter driver; and buffering the image data to be displayed in the filter driver. The present invention also discloses a computer system with a plurality of displays employing the method described above. The present invention can be easily implemented, and the captured screen image and the image on the local display terminal have the same image quality.

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