Jag QE - are DVD screenshots possible now?

eizzumdm

Because Quartz Extreme fundamentally changes the way our Macs process screen elements, is it now possible to make screenshots of DVDs w/ Cmd-Shift-3?



Or do you still get the blanked out window?



It would be interesting to hear if any Jaguar users have tried this with ATI and/or NVIDIA graphics cards.



(Yes, I know you can do this w/ SnapzPro and NVIDIA cards, but I have a Radeon.)

havanas

Have you tried an alternate dvd-player?



Try VideoLan: <a href="http://www.videolan.org"; target="_blank">http://www.videolan.org</A>;

ghost_user_name

[quote]Originally posted by eizzumdm:

<strong>Or do you still get the blanked out window?</strong><hr></blockquote>Blanked out, dark green window. (Radeon 32MB OEM AGP)



I've tried both the default screenshot mechanism and Snapz and both perform the same (WRT this test) as in 10.1.

marcuk

[quote]Originally posted by havanas:

<strong>Have you tried an alternate dvd-player?



Try VideoLan: <a href="http://www.videolan.org"; target="_blank">http://www.videolan.org</a></strong><hr></blockquote>;



Can I DL this .dmg and it will play DVD's or is it just the sourcecode? I am looking for an alternative to Apple's DVD player for a disc Ive got that doesnot play in AppleDVD, but will play in every other DVD players ive tried. I am not a coder of any sorts

havanas

[quote]Originally posted by MarcUK:

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Can I DL this .dmg and it will play DVD's or is it just the sourcecode? I am looking for an alternative to Apple's DVD player for a disc Ive got that doesnot play in AppleDVD, but will play in every other DVD players ive tried. I am not a coder of any sorts</strong><hr></blockquote>



There is a dmg here:

<a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download.html"; target="_blank">http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download.html</A>;



you might have to still launch the dvd via the terminal though It's in the readme and not too hard ( I figured it out afterall )





It's also a good general purpose mpeg player, like for playing mpeg2 you might find on the internet. You can open general mpegs via a dialog box.

wmf

For legal reasons, I suspect Apple's Grab will never take screen shots of DVD Player.

noahj

My understanding was that only people with nVidia cards (and maybe only the first run of them) could actually take pics because of something in the way the drivers were written. That may be a thing of the past though. There is no way Apple would purposely allow anyone to take pics of a DVD. Not if they want to be able to include a DVD player in their OS...

eugene

Using vlc, I was able to snap these shots from the Training Day DVD. I have a Radeon 8500 in my Power Mac G4.



<a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~ceugene/photos/trainingday1.jpg"; target="_blank">http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~ceugene/photos/trainingday1.jpg</a>;

<a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~ceugene/photos/trainingday2.jpg"; target="_blank">http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~ceugene/photos/trainingday2.jpg</a>;