capturing still images with DVD player

[Dale Hudson]

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
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> ON my machine, the Mac DVD disables the screen capture, but there are shareware such as Capture Me that can do the same thing.
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> On Apr 20, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Eija Niskanen wrote:
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> Hi!
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> 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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