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Rolfe

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Somebody answered this in the course of another thread, but I still haven't managed to accomplish the deed and I could do with help.

What I want to do is copy a few still pictures from a DVD in order to illustrate a piece of lit crit. Perfectly legit, within all known copyright laws. Just can't actually manage to do it.

Is it likely I have any software on my computer already that would do it? If not, is there something I can download that would enable the trick?

It's obviously quite easy, because the other thread was illustrated with examples the genius in question had just knocked off to demonstrate, but clearly I need some sort of idiot's guide.

Rolfe.
 
If you're not deeply concerned about photo-quality reproduction just do Alt-printscreen to copy and then paste into a Word document or whatever. Ot start Irfanview (which you can download here ) and paste to paste it as a new image. I just tried it to make sure it worked.
 
Sigh.

I'd tried PrintScreen before and got nowhere. This time it's sort of working. But it keeps chopping the top off the picture. I got a lot of decapitated characters.

Then when I try to select and save the bit I want, all I can do is select and save the top left-hand corner of the picture. (In Paint. Because it's a bitmap?)

Am I being obtuse here?

Rolfe.
 
What do you mean chopping the top of the picture?

Which media player are you using?
 
Just what I say. The pasted view isn't the view on the screen. Extent of effect varies but it's present with both Realplayer and InterVideo. (Better with the latter.)

Thanks for the Irfanview tip Wudang, that has helped a lot. But this bitmap thing is causing trouble. I want to select and use a part of the image and I'm having hellish trouble. Even if it looks right it won't do what I want when I try to put it into a word processing file.

Is there no way to get the thing as a jpg?

Rolfe.
 
Well, it thinks it's a jpg. But there's no picture. I simply can't manipulate the file the way I'd like to at all.

:cry:

Going to bed now, thanks for the help. Most progress I ever made anyway. Maybe I'll get further later.

Rolfe.
 
Intevideo DVD 4? If so, it has a capture button :)
To the left of the little Intervideo logo (which is directly above the menu button), there's a little button, which with a lot of imagination looks like a little camera. Click it, and it will capture the image, and open the Capture window with more options. There you can save as .bmp
To convert to jpg you can use paint or Irfanview.
 
Hmm. I'd have disabled any hardware acceleration (i.e. DirectX, etc.) that could stuff the frames into an overlay buffer, paused the video and pressed 'Alt-Prt Scr', then pasted it into 'Paint', cropped off the borders, then told it "Save As..." and picked 'JPEG" from the file type.

But that's just me.

There are also more than one DVD playback solution floating around, many available for free trial. If your DVD player doesn't have options to disable hardware acceleration or overlay windows, there are others that do.
 
Whatever I do (and I'm not about to swear I did exactly that but I tried a few things very like it) I don't end up with the bit of the picture I want. And trying to save as a jpg gets me no image at all.

:cry:

Rolfe.
 
Donks said:
Intevideo DVD 4? If so, it has a capture button :)
To the left of the little Intervideo logo (which is directly above the menu button), there's a little button, which with a lot of imagination looks like a little camera.
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Disabled, I think? But earlier, I thought I saw it enabled, could be wrong.

Time I went to bed, I'll try again tomorrow.

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe said:
Disabled, I think? But earlier, I thought I saw it enabled, could be wrong.
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I played around with the player for a while but was unable to get the function disabled. The help does mention that it can be disabled depending on certain types of hardware acceleration and zooming, so you could try to disable hardware acceleration (setup, video options, I recommend not changing the options while the DVD is playing, my computer locked up when I did that), and make sure the video is at 1:1, so no zoom. Also, the help says that some OEM versions come with an "Angle" function isntead of the capture function, so that might be it.
 
:cry:

Can anyone explain why I keep getting a different segment of the picture from the one I've carefully selected and saved? Even when I cut, paste, save and then try to open the saved file into a new application?

And why saving as jpg loses the picture entirely?

And why closing the application from which the clip was originally copied loses everything, including the saved pictures which simply open as black empty space?

Rolfe.
 
Advice.

Stop messing around with software that won't work for you.

1. Download BS player (it is free)
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/bs_play.html

2. Navigate to the video ts folder and find the .vob file you want to play.

3. When you see the screen you want to capture, press p for the size the pic is on the screen or Shift p for the original resoloution.

4. It will save the picture as a JPEG in it's default installation folder.

You will be done in 3 min.
 
thrombus29 said:
Advice.

Stop messing around with software that won't work for you.

1. Download BS player (it is free)
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/bs_play.html

2. Navigate to the video ts folder and find the .vob file you want to play.

3. When you see the screen you want to capture, press p for the size the pic is on the screen or Shift p for the original resoloution.

4. It will save the picture as a JPEG in it's default installation folder.

You will be done in 3 min.
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:cry:

I keep getting error messages.
BSplayer v1.02.812, Unhandled exception at EIP: 1D1C5055
If you click 'Close' application will be terminated.
Please report this info to the author with description what were you doing.
Floating point division by zero
EZeroDivide
, 0x00543BD3, 0x00543DD1, 0x004553F7, 0x0044C742, 0x77D43A68, 0x77D43B37, 0x77D45B40, 0x77D45F87, 0x004BA2E1, 0x0044C742, 0x77D43A68, 0x77D43B37, 0x77D43D91, 0x77D4438C, 0x005456E8, 0x77E814C7
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:cry:

Rolfe.
 
thrombus29 said:
Sorry man,

What kind of computer and OS are you using?
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Sigh. It's a Dell Inspiron 5150 notebook (P4 3.06GHz), running Windows XP Home User, and it's just over a year old. It has 512Mb RAM and the hard disc still has oodles of space left. It has a 64Mb video card.

I tried a different DVD, but the only file BSplayer would read was the tiny one with the short copyright notice on it. All others just gave "can't open this file". That's what the original disc I tried is doing now too.

Any enlightenment most gratefully received.

Rolfe.
 
The only thing that I can think of now is that the DVD is copy protected and that is stopping BS player from reading it that way.

If you feel like messing around, try this it might work.

1. Use alcohol 120 or Nero or CloneCD to make a image file of the DVD on your HD

2. Get Daemon tools and mount the image on a virtual drive with all protection emulations on.

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php

3. Try reading the DVD files off the virtual drive with BS player.

Might be a DMCA violation, but lucky you you don't have to worry about that.
 
Rolfe said:
It's obviously quite easy, because the other thread was illustrated with examples the genius in question had just knocked off to demonstrate, but clearly I need some sort of idiot's guide.
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It's 1% genius and 99% blood, sweat & tears :)

Every program to playback DVD's should do the job. It's all about the "Capture" function. I use PowerDVD to reproduce my DVD's. This is the control panel I get:

powerdvd.jpg


It's the encircled button. You just pause the playback at the desired moment, hit that button and that's it!. The image will store in a preset folder in your comp.

Why don't you try the 30-day trial version of PowerDVD?.

http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/products/product_main.jsp?ProdId=28

It's a newest version, the layout is different, but the capture function is there.

I'd be glad to help further on that.
 
thrombus29 said:
The only thing that I can think of now is that the DVD is copy protected and that is stopping BS player from reading it that way.
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I thought they were all copy-protected. That was the point of the original query. I thought about DeCSS, and how do you use that, but in another thread (damn, I'll never find it now) someone said it was a perfectly simple thing to do, and proved it by doing it and posting the result then and there.

Using PrintScreen on the ordinary player pictures on freeze-frame didn't totally not work, which was encouraging, but there was the problem that no matter what area of the picture I selected that wouldn't be the one that was subsequently displayed, and then once the player programme was closed the saved image would disappear completely.

This is a perfectly legal thing to do, taking one frame for illustrative purposes has always been regarded as fair use. It's another example of how efforts to thwart pirating are more successful in stopping the casual user from doing something perfectly innocent and legal than they are at actually stopping piracy.

Except, it does seem to be possible. I just don't know how!

Rolfe.
 
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