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Quick question, how do you get a DVD screen capture? Is there some free software about?

I fancy nabbing something off my BSG DVDs to use as a background.

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Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:23 pm
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Quite a lot of things won't grab from DVD player - it uses some weird overlay system meaning all you grab is a blue rectangle. I've done screen grabs in the past by ripping a very small section of the DVD with handbrake and grabbing an image from the playback of that. There are a couple of 'DVD grabber' apps, but all the ones I know of stopped working about Mac Os 10.4.

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Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:43 pm
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Quite a lot of things won't grab from DVD player - it uses some weird overlay system meaning all you grab is a blue rectangle. I've done screen grabs in the past by ripping a very small section of the DVD with handbrake and grabbing an image from the playback of that. There are a couple of 'DVD grabber' apps, but all the ones I know of stopped working about Mac Os 10.4.

Jon

Me no like. Me go digging some more.

Ta by the way. :D

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Play it on the PC using VLC and then use the screen-grab function.

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JJW009 wrote:
Play it on the PC using VLC and then use the screen-grab function.

Ah, cool, didn't realise VLC had a screen grab option. Frickin numbnuts I am, why didn't I think of that?

Thanks JJ. :D

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