capturing still images with DVD player

[Jasper Sharp]

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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Eija


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