DVD SCREEN GRABS....?

download mPlayer

load the .VOB's into mPlayer

play them, find the spot you want to capture

open 'grab', and grab it! works great for me

(PS: I think this way only works with non-encrypted DVD's, or DVD's copied to your HD using DVDBackup)

if you have quicktime pro, you can open the VOB with it, copy and save the frame.

mikebatho said:

Dwonloading Mplayer to try. I've been at this all afternoon!!

Just tried snapNdrag, wouldn't work. If I select an area, the image just ends up blacked out, and if I select the screen, it grabs everything apart from the dvd display window. OSX Grab or screen capture doesn't work, and neither do snapz pro, DVD Capture or Capture me. As with snapNdrag, the last 3 will grab all but the dvd window, as if its on a diferent layer....

This is driving me crazy....

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I saw this problem before, but it was when I was using a PC and Windows Media Player. I think it has something to do with the the dvd video being rendered seperate from the actual screen. In WMP you had to go in options and turn off acceleration then the video card rendered the movie with the rest of the screen.

As for a solution on OSX, I don't really know of one, but I'm sure there is one.

Well, some Mac genius/expert has to know...

On a PC, you can easily capture a video frame w/ PowerDVD or any software DVD player.

FuzzyBallz said:

Well, some Mac genius/expert has to know...

On a PC, you can easily capture a video frame w/ PowerDVD or any software DVD player.

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Not true. Depending on the Macrovision protection on the DVD, some times if you take a screen capture it will just show blue/black where the DVD image is.

Apple was required to disable the screen-shot feature when the DVD player sofware is loaded. There have been discussions on this before.

If you know how, DeCSS the DVD and then play it with a media player that allows saving frames. I dont know how to do this on Mac (my iBook doesnt have a DVD drive and I use my PC for these sorts of things) so unfortunatly I cant be of much more help.

If you've got two Macs connected you could play the DVD on one and then use Rendezvous in safari to take a screen caputre on the other machine....

It's worked for me.

There are a couple of really easy ways around this one.

First off, you can use VLC, which will allow you to take a screen-shot in the normal way using Command-Shift-4 and then dragging the crosshair over the frame. Alternatively, you can download DVD Capture, which works with the OS X DVD Player.

try to download Capture Me from Version Tracker.
I use this and it works very well for my needs.
I'll try to find the site link after my design class today.

Use Constrictor

I use constrictor (on MacOSXApps.com)

http://www.macosxapps.com/article.php?story=20030321031237342

to do screen captures. Run DVD player in windowed mode, position the frame, pause on the frame you want and then save the image. It generates tiff files, and I used it just two days ago in Panther to grab a bunch of stills from Naked Gun

Works like a champ!

Angus

sgarringer said:

Not true. Depending on the Macrovision protection on the DVD, some times if you take a screen capture it will just show blue/black where the DVD image is.

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Give me a DVD movie, any DVD movie, and I'll give you a screen capture, w/o the blue/black thing you're talking about. There are so many ways on the PC to get rid of whatever protection crap it's not even funny.

Found something that might just work.

DVD Capture, now updated to version 2.5, is a helper application for the Apple DVD Player. New features include enhanced improved file handling, DVD Player controls, improved settings retention and conversion to JPEG and cropping capability. It enables the user to take screen captures of the DVD Player Viewer in full screen mode in three different sizes. The captures can be saved to a file or placed on the clipboard. An AppleScript is provided for the DVD Player script menu that launches DVD Capture. Select "File" or "Clipboard" to assign a location for the capture. Mac OS 10.2 or higher required. May not work on all hardware configurations that are not G4-G5 Towers.

Proof of Pudding

I promise that constrictor is the shareware way to go...

and money where my mouth is..

See attached image made with constrictor and shrunk down to manaegable web size!

Angus

VLC has worked fine for me... You can use the same screenshot commands as usual in that program. I just make it full screen and hit pause. It's not always perfect quality, but it works.

snapz pro

snapz pro works for me, even for video capture of dvds...

Mike: Sent you a PM.

I just wrote my own RB app that will take a picture of the screen. It has worked on over 60 dvd's I have tested with it (many of those are best sellers and such).

we are a really american family, 112 dvd's all best sellers and oscar winners

please note: i have tested this on about 6 macs, all with different vdeo cards and such.

What machine do you have? Graphics chipset - ATI or nVidia? They both treat Video Overlaying differently, hence why methods will work on some machines and not others...