High Quality DVD Screenshots

[BlueScope]

I'm currently using PowerDVD (by CyberLink) to watch DVDs and screenshot'em... well, unfortunately, the program sucks at screenshooting ^_^ Here's an example of what you get as a result:

Spoiler: Power DVD Screenshot

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Screenshot from 'Last Samurai'

As you can see, the quality is nothing like DVD-quality, and the dimensions are also messed up... (it screens in 3:4 instead of 16:9), and the size (720x576 pixels) is also quite small, I guess. I'm curious if anyone knows a program that can do this any better... or at least can tell me there's no way to do it because of [...] crap. ^_^

Thanks in advance for your help. ^_^

 

[BlueScope]

Lol ^_^ Well, unfortunately, this - unexpectedly - is the same for all DVDs, not only the Tom-Cruise-ones ^_^ (I actually don't own any more Tom-Cruise-DVDs to test it... ^_^ )

Still, anything in mind to help me out?

 

[Ellie]

I believe it is some sort of protection, as the DvD companies do not want you to post screenshots of movies on the internet, so by making you unable to get a high quality one it stops that from happening. There are probably programsd out there that can help though.

(I know with some DvD's, like Bullet in a Bible, if I print screen and paste in paint the movie keeps on playing in paint as a screenshot-proof thing. )

 

[arcthemonkey]

Most video players don't export the video to the clipboard, so you get a black void.

 

[Minkoff]

You can configure them to though. In Windows Media Player, just turn off video overlay.

 

[Vash]

Or used Media Player Classic simply hit "Save image".

 

[$t3v0]

It's Tom Cruise's lawyers trying to make him look taller.

I like it

Yeah, I just do what minkoff said. It's not hard to bypass, really.

MAC - "Hi, I'm a mac LOL"

PC - "And I'm a pc. I try and make people believe they cant take screenshots of running video in media players"

MAC - "What's a media player?"

 

[Minkoff]

Hey man, Macs have VLC. Of course so does Windows and everyone else, but still it's a pretty rockin' media player.

 

[BlueScope]

Yeah, VLC is pretty much the best media player you can get (screw the screencap feature, though -.- )... even more for MAC (for Windows, WMP10 has almost the same functions as VLC has...)

Anyway, to my problem of the moment: After I got rid of my 'WMP is too stupid to output a DVD on two screens at the time' problem, I now ran into something else: The stupid player just won't show the video sharp and there's no fucking option with which I could turn any smoothening off -.-
Also, there's only an option to disable overlays in the advance hardware acceleration window, which also doesn't work... can you tell me what exactly to disable to get it to work?

 

[Stupid Penguin]

I use Media Player Classic and it takes nice quality DVD screens
I suggest you try that as it's free and works with many different file types.