Has anyone ever captured a DVD?

[konichiwa]

I need a still image from a DVD that I have. Can anyone tell me the best way of going about capturing this image? I tried just doing ALT+PrintScreen but it did something very weird when I pasted it into an image editor. It was almost like I could resize the entire image, or zoom in, and the actual DVD image wouldn't change size. Is there something I'm missing?

This is kind of urgent, so any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[SexEPid]

What DVD software are you using?
In PowerDVD, all you have to do is press a button on the menu bar, and it prints and stores it on the HDD immediately.

Pid

 

[konichiwa]

😱

I was using PowerDVD, and you have shown me the light. Thank you so much, oh wise grasshoper. 😀

 

[SexEPid]

Press C, or Alt-C
Or "Capture Frame" on the menu bar, what version of PowerDVD do you have?

Pid

 

[konichiwa]

2.5, and I found it. It's a little camera icon. Domo Arigato.

 

[SexEPid]

Yup, that's the one!
Happy Capturing 🙂

Pid

 

[Mday]

the button has been there for a long time. i started pdvd in 1.5 and it had the button.

THE BUTTON!

 

[konichiwa]

Yeah well I had never really watched a DVD on my computer before, I have a pretty nice home theatre setup. 😀

But I have to make an animated GIF from about 25 frames from a movie for my office meeting on Tuesday, and I realized I had no idea how to do it. :Q

 

[AndrewR]

Didn't know there were wild ones on the loose. 😉

 

[AlphaVMS]

I saw and episode on Animal Planet with the Crocodile Hunter going after wild DVDs. He says the best way to capture them is with a trapcase. They are supposed to be easy to train with a device called a DVD player.

Little know facts about DVDs:

1) They are almost always found alone. Rarely do they ever hang out in packs, and even then usually no more than two at a time.

2) While they look like CDs, they aren't. You can safely walk up to a wild CD and even pick them up, but that's too dangerous with wild DVDs.

3) You can almost always get trained CDs to perform with a DVD player, but DVDs can not get trained to perform with a CD player.

4) You can sneak up on an upside-down DVD, but some DVDs are two-sided. Don't be fooled!