screenshots of DVD menus

trevorl wrote on 1/17/2005, 11:55 AM

Can anyone advise me on how to create screenshots of DVD menus for use on a website?

I've tried doing it using the Print Screen function with Windows Media Player and pasting it into Paint as a bitmap but the without good results.

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ScottW wrote on 1/17/2005, 1:00 PM

Was this authored in DVDA? If so, use preview mode and then do the capture from there using the copy to clipboard button (might want to set the quality to best).

trevorl wrote on 1/17/2005, 1:39 PM

Thanks, I'll give that a shot for the projects that I authored in DVDA, but I have others that were not done in DVDA. I have only have DVDs to work from for these.

bStro wrote on 1/17/2005, 3:17 PM

Most DVD player apps have some sort of screencap feature, though I don't know if Windows Media Player does. If you have any other, PowerDVD for example, check its help section.

What is it about the Print Screen screencaps that you don't like?

Rob

trevorl wrote on 1/18/2005, 4:52 PM

With Windows Media Player it doesn't it just doesn't work. The video portion of the screen comes up blank. Evidently there's a CTRL I feature that's supposed to do it but I couldn't figure it out. I'll try another DVD player app. Thanks.

bStro wrote on 1/18/2005, 5:20 PM

Ah yes, forgot about that. It has to do with how DVDs are presented when you play them. They're not so much "on screen" as they're played within a container that's "on screen."

Rob