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Another means of capturing DVD screenshots
Authored by: squid on Dec 27, '03 06:15:27PM
Or, you can just type
screencapture -c
in the terminal. This will copy your screen to the clipboard as many times as you like, while a DVD is playing.

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Just use VLC!
Authored by: klaxon on Dec 28, '03 08:31:52PM

Download the free, opensource app VLC (available at versiontracker) and there will be no limitations on screenshots with full playback capability. VLC has a lot of other geeky capabilities giving you access to items not normally available in a consumer oriented package like Apple's DVD player.



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Just use VLC!
Authored by: JimMueller on Dec 29, '03 02:51:03AM

VLC is very, very squirrly when it comes to stepping to the frame you want, and if you overshoot and hit left-arrow to back up (as you can in Apple's DVD Player) it takes you to the previous chapter.

I added this to VLC's bug database awhile ago, and the developers replied they have been working on it with little success.



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Another means of capturing DVD screenshots
Authored by: freerangehuman on Feb 03, '04 02:28:44AM

weird: I tried using the terminal command, which does override the disabled command-shift-4 when dvd player is running. but when i took a shot of the dvd window, and opened it in preview, it wasn't just blank - it was see through! if i drag the preview window over the paused dvd window, i see the dvd screen through the screen shot of the dvd screen!



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