capturing still images with DVD player

[Eija Niskanen]

And, thanks to FB friends, I found a way to, firstly play the DVD on
VCL, and secondly, just to take a still with apple+shift+3!

Thank you all for your advice!

Eija

2012/4/21 Dale Hudson <dalehudson at gmail.com>:
> Another software is Snapz Pro X
> (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/), which doesn't require
> converting the file before taking a screen grab.
>
> Best,
> Dale
>
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> On Apr 21, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Jasper Sharp wrote:
>
> 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.
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> ________________________________
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:23:52 -0400
> From: baird at asianlan.umass.edu
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: capturing still images with DVD player
>
> ON my machine, the Mac DVD disables the screen capture, but there are
> shareware such as Capture Me that can do the same thing.
>
>
> On Apr 20, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Eija Niskanen wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> How does one capture stil images from a DVD film with Mac DVD player?
> (I know there is supposed to be some screen capture device for VLC
> player, but the DVD in question won't open with anything else but DVD
> player). The system is OSX, DVD region 2.
>
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