Well, I now know it's not as simple as hitting Prnt Screen when watching a DVD on my computer. *sigh*
So, I recognize now that you need some kind of program to do it. Is there anyplace with a free DVD screen cap thingy, or am I gonna have to pay? And if I do, what's the cheapest one that'll still give me good quality?
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Taking DVD screen caps
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Maybe I'm missing something, but...
Why won't it play my DVD?
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"On and on, through the years,
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You need to have a DVD codec, if any other app can play DVD's then you are ok.RogueIce wrote:Maybe I'm missing something, but...
Why won't it play my DVD?
And you need to open the seperate *.vob files from the dvd, it will not play the DVD automatically, atleast I have not found any way to do that.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -Lucretius
"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. ... If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. ... If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?" -Epicurus
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Hmm... I preserved my file preferences, and while it plays media files just fine, when I tried to play a file off of a DVD, it played it about twice as slow...
EDIT: Well that's just dandy...
EDIT: Well that's just dandy...
I knew it was too good to be true.15.) Can BSplayer play DVDs?
* Not, yet. However, BSplayer can play decrypted . vob files which consist an unlocked dvd . To decrypt a locked dvd disc, you use a DVD-ripper like DVDdecrypter .
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It tried that, it won't work. They need to be unlocked I guess. So I'm assuming that means mine are locked for some odd reason?Faram wrote:You need to have a DVD codec, if any other app can play DVD's then you are ok.RogueIce wrote:Maybe I'm missing something, but...
Why won't it play my DVD?
And you need to open the seperate *.vod files from the dvd, it will not play the DVD automatically, atleast I have not found any way to do that.
And there's several .VOB files, but no .VOD that I can find...
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We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
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Ah. Oh well. *uses that DVDdecrypter thing and prays it won't fuck up the DVD somehow*Spanky The Dolphin wrote:He means .vob. And I think DVD are supposed to be locked. Kind of a security thing, you know?
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We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
What DVDdecrypter does is copies the decrypted .VOB to your HDD. It's fairly close to impossible to fuck up your DVD while doing so. Also useful for backing up your DVDs into MPEG-4 files. Which reminds me... I need to get some DVD-Rs. And CD-Rs.RogueIce wrote:Ah. Oh well. *uses that DVDdecrypter thing and prays it won't fuck up the DVD somehow*Spanky The Dolphin wrote:He means .vob. And I think DVD are supposed to be locked. Kind of a security thing, you know?
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Well, that somehow got the Spanish version onto my harddrive, and not even the full episode either...
And though it played the one, it refuses to play the rest now for some unGodly reason. Even the same one if I try opening it again!
ARG!
EDIT: Oh, sure, now you play it. Choppy sound, and NO PICTURE?! Off the DVD itself.
And though it played the one, it refuses to play the rest now for some unGodly reason. Even the same one if I try opening it again!
ARG!
EDIT: Oh, sure, now you play it. Choppy sound, and NO PICTURE?! Off the DVD itself.
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We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
DVD Decrypter will get you the decrypted DVD VOB files. You can then use any number of player/processors to get frames, sequences, sounds, whatever. I personally like to use VirtualDub with MPEG support. Doesn't handle asynchronous timestamps too well, but that's usually not a problem.
VideoHelp.com is the ultimate resource for video processing of any kind.
Both the tools I mentioned are listed there, and are both freeware.
VideoHelp.com is the ultimate resource for video processing of any kind.
Both the tools I mentioned are listed there, and are both freeware.
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Nevermind. Now it plays. Only in Spanish though. But that's not important.
It'll only take a screencap in it's "Movie Size" size, which is for this one set at 720x480. Does anyone know if I can change this so I can make a screengrab an effective wallpaper for me?
It'll only take a screencap in it's "Movie Size" size, which is for this one set at 720x480. Does anyone know if I can change this so I can make a screengrab an effective wallpaper for me?
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
It'll work better if you decrypt the .VOB onto your HDD. Oh, and most DVDs have multiple audio tracks, so you'll have to make sure you've got the right one.RogueIce wrote:Well, that somehow got the Spanish version onto my harddrive, and not even the full episode either...
And though it played the one, it refuses to play the rest now for some unGodly reason. Even the same one if I try opening it again!
ARG!
EDIT: Oh, sure, now you play it. Choppy sound, and NO PICTURE?! Off the DVD itself.
"preemptive killing of cops might not be such a bad idea from a personal saftey[sic] standpoint..." --Keevan Colton
"There's a word for bias you can't see: Yours." -- William Saletan
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Does that programme work out of the box or do I need to feed it a whole bunch of codecs and plugins to get it to work?Sharp-kun wrote:Media Player Classic
File > Save Image
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Works outta the box, or it did for me atleast.Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Does that programme work out of the box or do I need to feed it a whole bunch of codecs and plugins to get it to work?Sharp-kun wrote:Media Player Classic
File > Save Image
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Nothing is more convenient and effective for DVD screencaps than PowerDVD.
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Perhaps. But, as far as I know, I'd have to shell out money for that. So I'll live with this for now.Darth Wong wrote:Nothing is more convenient and effective for DVD screencaps than PowerDVD.
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We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
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It can save as BMP, or it can copy to clipboard and then you can paste it into any app you want (such as GIMP) and save in any format you want.Sharp-kun wrote:As I recall it doesn't save as jpg's though (which is what I want for most screencaps). The option isn't even there as I recall.Darth Wong wrote:Nothing is more convenient and effective for DVD screencaps than PowerDVD.
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"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
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That's what I basically did during the short time I was able to use the "pro" version of WinDVD (my computer doesn't like Power DVD), which saves screen captures in BMP format.
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I never was able to get screencaps to work in PowerDVD. NVDVD works fine for me, though. If you have an nvidia card, Spanky, I suggest trying it.
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was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now, the fool
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