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THere's a great piece of software called Handbrake, which can convert a DVD to another video file such as mpeg4 (very useful for embedding into PowerPoint presentations, for example). Then you could frame grab from this resulting file.<div><br><br><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt">My n</span>ew book, <b><i>The </i></b><span style="font-size:10pt"><b><i>Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema</i></b>,</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> is out now from<a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810857957" target="_blank"> Scarecrow Press.</a></span></div><br>Jasper Sharp: Writer & Film Curator Homepage<br>http://jaspersharp.com/<br><br>Midnight Eye: The Latest and Best in Japanese Cinema<br>http://www.midnighteye.com<br><br>Zipangu Fest: Japanarchy in the UK<br>http://zipangufest.com/<br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:23:52 -0400<br>From: baird@asianlan.umass.edu<br>To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>Subject: Re: capturing still images with DVD player<br><br>ON my machine, the Mac DVD disables the screen capture, but there are shareware such as Capture Me that can do the same thing.<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 20, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Eija Niskanen wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div>Hi!<br><br>How does one capture stil images from a DVD film with Mac DVD player?<br>(I know there is supposed to be some screen capture device for VLC<br>player, but the DVD in question won't open with anything else but DVD<br>player). The system is OSX, DVD region 2.<br><br>-- <br>Eija<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
<span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div style="font-style:normal;word-wrap:break-word">Bruce Baird<br>Assistant Professor<br>Asian Languages and Literatures<br>University of Massachusetts Amherst<br>Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History<br><br>717 Herter Hall<br>161 Presidents Drive<br>University of Massachusetts Amherst<br>Amherst, MA 01003-9312<br>Phone: 413-577-4992<br>Fax: 413-545-4975<br><a href="mailto:baird@asianlan.umass.edu">baird@asianlan.umass.edu</a></div><div style="font-style:normal;word-wrap:break-word"><br></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">For information about my recently published book<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><i>Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh</i><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>see:</div><div style="font-style:normal;word-wrap:break-word"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;word-wrap:break-word"><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/hijikatatatsumiandbutoh/BruceBaird" target="_blank">http://us.macmillan.com/hijikatatatsumiandbutoh/BruceBaird</a></div><div style="font-style:normal;word-wrap:break-word"><br><br></div></span></span>
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