Screenshot Question

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NatronB

macrumors regular

Original poster

• May 22, 2003

• #1

All-

How does one take a screenshot of a DVD movie? I tried my handy 'open apple-shift-3' bit, that didn't work. I then tried using 'Grab,' that didn't work either. Any ideas?

Thanks,
-Nate

 

MoparShaha

Contributor

• May 22, 2003

• #2

You can't take screen shots of the apple DVD player. Its a copywright issue, apple blocks the screen shot functions when the player is open. You can download another DVD player, VLC, at http://www.videolan.org/. This progam allows you to take screen shots, although it doesn't run that well on older systems.

 

iJon

macrumors 604

• May 22, 2003

• #3

use snapz pro. thats what i use.

iJon

 

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MacRumorSkeptic

macrumors regular

• May 22, 2003

• #4

I think it depends on what type of graphics card you have.

 

zarathustra

macrumors 6502a

• May 22, 2003

• #5

run a search at versiontracker. There is an app called DVD capture (how fitting). It works quite well.

Yes, because of copyright issues you cannot legally take a screenshot that will be used commercially (e.g. in an ad, magazine cover, etc.), without consent from the producers and copyright holders.

Sorry, this rant was brought to you by:

MoparShaha's spelling of copywright. 😉

 

Freg3000

macrumors 68000

• May 22, 2003

• #6

Originally posted by iJon
use snapz pro. thats what i use.

iJon

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I think it even comes bundled with some new computers. I know for a fact that it's on my Power Mac.

 

ibookin'

macrumors 65816

• May 22, 2003

• #7

Originally posted by Freg3000
I think it even comes bundled with some new computers. I know for a fact that it's on my Power Mac.

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It comes bundled with the "Pro" line of computers. It did not come on my iBook, but when my boss bought a Ti 1GHz (with 1GB ram, 60GB HD 😀) it came preloaded.