Making DVD screen captures on iMac Intel

[23skidoo]

Hi

I'm relatively new to the world of Mac after spending 5 years on PC. (I was a Mac man before that, but I might as well say I'm a newbie at this point).

I just got myself an iMac Intel Duo and it's a great machine but I am disappointed in the lack of a few features.

From a Google search it appears that Apple is now in Hollywood's back pocket and has disabled any of its on-board software from making screen captures from DVDs. So is there a third-party software -- that works under Intel -- that will do this? I actually have good reason for making screen captures.

I'm going to be installing Bootcamp and adding an XP partition in the near future. Can I get around this problem by simply installing an XP program like PowerDVD that does offer screen capture capability, or is DVD screen capturing disabled across the board?

Thanks!

Alex

 

[ero87]

can't you just play the video full-screen and take a screenshot of the screen?

see your system preferences for all the shortcuts for screenshots. The basic one is apple-shift-3 to take a picture of the screen (thoguh I changed my shortcut for this to F3 - much more convenient!)

 

[swiftaw]

Play the DVD using VLC rather than DVD player

 

[Sdashiki]

you cant take a screenshot (command-shift-3) when the DVD player is open.

last i checked.

go grab snapngrab

it lets you take a shot of the screen, or the window the DVD is playing in.

 

[Queso]

Play the DVD using VLC rather than DVD player

Listen to swiftaw. This is the best and cheapest way to do it.