Has anybody got the means and would be so kind to make a screenshot for me? I didn't know you couldn't make them by just hitting "print screen" with the DVD in your drive...

It's from the first deleted scene in "Six Months Ago", "Dad is dead". After Nathan leaves, Peter looks at a photograph of him and Nathan as kids, fishing. Could someone cap the photograph for me?

Thanks in advance.

I don't have my DVD set with me right now, or else I'd get the cap. What player do you use? I know Windows Media Player has the option to save image (CTRL+I).

Ctrl+I? Oh, great, WMP was the one I was using, I didn't know the combination though. Thanks a lot, I'll try it!

.. no, didn't work - nothing happened.

But I think I'll just pause it on the DVD player and do a sketch - that's quicker too, I guess.

irfanview with the multimedia plugin has the capability to take screencaps, iirc, if you wanted to try another software-based option.

And next up's a link for irfanview, if you're interested.

I actually have irfanview on my comp - I'd need to install it on my hubby's, since his is the comp with the DVD drive, mine hasn't got one.

I never knew you could make screencaps with that... I'll give it a try! Thank you!

Here's an update, of sorts... I at first suggested irfanview, but just in googling to see if that's the right idea, it seems people say that WinDVD and PowerDVD are useful to get screencaps from a DVD, while irfanview is helpful for getting screencaps from .avi and .mpg files. I just figured that since the dvds can play in the windows media player, and the irfanview multimedia plugin uses the windows media player, then irfanview should also be able to get screencaps from a dvd.

So, I apologize if the information about irfanview is incorrect.

Are any of those programmes freeware?

Well, I remember that Intervideo's WinDVD was installed when I played some dvd way back when, since that player was supposed to be able to enhance the features/options that you could get outta the dvd. So, WinDVD's been on my computer - I actually didn't know about the screencapping ability of the player. So, to answer your question, I don't think WinDVD is freeware, now that I think about it, since it came with a movie I bought. And I'm not familiar with PowerDVD.

Huh. I'm not much help - my bad. That would be cool if irfanview is able to work, however...

_{Yeah, I'll stop attemptin' to help now.}

ETA (and then I'll stop postin' silliness) the link to Corel's WinDVD page, where it says there's a free, 30-day fully-functional trial of the software, if you're interested...

I've used PowerDVD, and it works wonderfully. Here is a free trial version.

For all the mac users who are on this forum and might be interested, there's an easy way to capture DVD stills on a mac using DVD Player. Create a script (use ScriptEditor, it's easy, just type in the script and save it) with this- Save the script to your library, specifically the DVD Player part of application support, in a folder called "scripts", name the file DVD Screenshot. When using DVD player, pause at where you need to screenshot, and then run that file(simply double click) on it, it will take a screenshot of the screen.

To take a screen shot of just part of the screen, say the DVD player menu, create a second script called DVD Selection Screenshot, with this -



It does the same thing but it works like the usual screen grab feature on the mac, in that you select what part of the screen you want to with the crosshairs.

Dunno if that will help anyone, but I found it neat when I first read about it, and I use it...