Re: Capturing a single frame from a DVD
- From: "Bob Knowlden" <nkbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:08:34 -0400
I don't know of an appropriate newsgroup in the Microsoft group.
Capturing single movie frames isn't something I usually need to do, but...
I use WinDVD 6 (http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Home.jsp) to view DVDs. It has
a frame capture capability.
I have hardly used it, but I just tried it on a couple of DVDs that I
believe to be copy-protected. It worked fine on both, saving single frames
as jpegs. (.bmp also seems to be an option.) Apparently copy protection does
not prevent single-frame capture.
As far as I know, WinDVD has no hot key feature that would make this more
convenient. It appears to be done strictly using the mouse and pulldown
menus. The captured frames are saved to RAM, so you can grab a number of
frames in quick succession, to be saved to the hard drive at your
convenience.
PowerDVD (http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/index.jsp) also has a snapshot
feature. How that compares to WinDVD, I don't know.
I also have Nero Showtime installed. (That's a media player that is included
with the Nero CD/DVD burning suite.) It captures a single frame to the
Windows clipboard when the C key is pressed.
In short, I believe that all you'll need to capture single frames is an
ordinary DVD viewing application. (You'd need that anyway - Windows Media
Player can display DVDs, but only if a set of third-party codecs is
installed. WinDVD or PowerDVD is commonly bundled with DVD-ROM drives or
burners.)
Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
"Bison" <Bison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:DBDF7EF3-4FA9-43A0-A42B-8DB97B2EDD41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Can someone please direct me to the appropriate group for this question;
>
> Here's what I'd like to do. Using my laptop and an external DVD drive
> (since my laptop is not equipped with one) I want to capture and print
> single
> frames from commerical DVD movies. I'm an artist and would like to use
> the
> prints I make as reference photos for my painting. I've had conflicting
> opinions as to what I need to do this. Someone told me all I need is the
> external DVD drive whereas others say I need additional software, video
> capture cards etc.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Bison
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