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Capture a DVD screen with the Apple DVD Player
Authored by: mekkablue on Jun 22, '05 03:01:21PM
Too complicated. Here's what I do:
do shell script "screencapture -ics"
This places a screenshot in the clipboard. Works even when DVD Player is running. For easy access, I saved it in my AppleScript menu folder. More options? VoilĂ :

usage: screencapture [-icmwsWx] [files]
  -i         capture screen interactively, by selection or window
               control key - causes screen shot to go to clipboard
               space key   - toggle between mouse selection and
                             window selection modes
               escape key  - cancels interactive screen shot
  -c         force screen capture to go to the clipboard
  -m         only capture the main monitor, undefined if -i is set
  -w         only allow window selection mode
  -s         only allow mouse selection mode
  -W         start interaction in window selection mode
  -x         do not play sounds
  -S         in window capture mode, capture the screen not the window
  -C         capture the cursor as well as the screen. only in non-interactive modes
  -t<format> image format to create, default is png
  files   where to save the screen capture, 1 file per screen
Hope this helps!

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Capture a DVD screen with the Apple DVD Player
Authored by: lucite on Jun 22, '05 05:14:13PM

Thanks for that tip, but it's not working for me - either via the AS or directly in Terminal (under Tiger 10.4.1).

The only way it seems to work is without any options, i.e.:

[code] screencapture filename[/code]

But if I add any options, e.g. -ics or even just -i then even though I get the selection cursor, after I've clicked and gotten my normal cursor back there's nothing in the clipboard or in my save path...



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Capture a DVD screen with the Apple DVD Player
Authored by: lucite on Jun 22, '05 05:16:27PM

EDIT: using -c alone does work...



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Capture a DVD screen with the Apple DVD Player
Authored by: lucite on Jun 22, '05 05:20:26PM

EDIT 2: actually, everything appears to work except when I use the -i option... weird. The only thing I can think of is that I'm usig PathFinder, but that doesn't seem like the culprit.



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Works! Quality different?
Authored by: PopMcGee on Jun 22, '05 07:44:45PM

Fantastic, "screencapture -ics" works: Just press space after executing it, choose DVD player and off you go. Thanks a lot! :-)

On a side note, the picture that one gets in the clipboard is a bit different than the DVD player one, just try it out: Diagonal lines have steps in them in the copied version, it looks like DVD player adds some "smoothing" to the picture that we don't get if we copy it. Any way to change that?

Cheers! :-)



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Works! Quality different?
Authored by: greenplasticcup on Jul 19, '05 11:49:04AM

Take the image and get it into photoshop. then run the Filter -> Video -> De-Interlace on it. that should clean up the jaggies.

I didn't experience the diagonal lines when I tried this hint on a self-made dvd I have in my office, but in the past when i've taken still frames from a video, i've used that filter to get rid of the diagonal lines when i got them.



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Works! Quality different?
Authored by: greenplasticcup on Jul 19, '05 11:49:05AM

Take the image and get it into photoshop. then run the Filter -> Video -> De-Interlace on it. that should clean up the jaggies.

I didn't experience the diagonal lines when I tried this hint on a self-made dvd I have in my office, but in the past when i've taken still frames from a video, i've used that filter to get rid of the diagonal lines when i got them.



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