question

[Wangmaster]

hey
im just wondering how you take snapshots from movies cause i have advent children on dvd and i wanna get a pic from it but when i press printscreen and copy into paint, the picture acts like the player
help?

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

ah yes! the old print screen phantom has yet another victim. Happened to me aswell pal

[Wangmaster]

hah
did u find out a way?

[Chris]

You can't copy screens directly from a DVD onto Paint or Gimp. I imagine that it has something to do with Copyright protection. <<

[Miriel]

I think this belongs more in the Help Forum. *moves*

[Samuraid]

The reason you cannot copy DVD frames directly in most players is because they use a hardware overlay through your video card to display the video, and Windows cannot capture that in a normal printscreen.

There are likely a number of programs that will capture DVD frames. I would personally decrypt the DVD using DVD Decrypter (if you can find it online anywhere) and then open the video in something like DVD2AVI or virtual dub and save frames out of it.

http://www.doom9.org may have some (or all) of the tools I mentioned.

[starseeker]

If you import the footage to Windows Movie Maker you can take screenshots from individual frames.