How do you capture video from the computer's DVD player?

newbie2005 · 07-25-2005, 05:19 AM

Say, your computer has a DVD player capable of read/write. You play your VCD and/or DVD disc using programs like Windows Media Player, RealOne Player. Is it possible to do more than just viewing the video?

How do you take a snapshot? Or if you want to record a particular series of actions within the video, how is it done?

[-0MEGA-] · 07-25-2005, 05:36 AM

if you try to take a snapshot or movie, you see the background and program stuff, but where the video is all you see is a black square. There isnt a way to record the video that is playing on your dvd player, only way to do it is to get a copying programs (they dont allow you to copy copy-protected movies though.)

**The_Other_One** · 07-25-2005, 05:48 AM

Actaully, if you use a program called Media Player Classic, it has a screenshot option...

[-0MEGA-] · 07-25-2005, 05:49 AM

ok, so you can get a snapshot of it, but i dont think you can record movies from it. Please correct me if im wrong

alanuofm · 07-25-2005, 07:19 AM

well if you are able to take screen shots, then take many screen shots (30 per second) then you can convert those into an avi. i used to do this with cs movies but i dont remember the name of the program.

newbie2005 · 07-25-2005, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by geoff5093

ok, so you can get a snapshot of it, but i dont think you can record movies from it. Please correct me if im wrong

You can definitely make an exact duplicate of the DVD. There's I know at least half dozen DVD copier software out there that have the ability to duplicate encrypted/protected discs.

That's not what I want. I'm only interested in extracting particular scene (i.e., short clip) from the movie, so I can save it as AVI/MPEG file. Of course I can do it the hard way, that is, play the disc on a stand-alone DVD player; and then use the S-video connection via a capturing device (PCI card). But I thought there could be an easier way.

Bunchofstuff · 07-25-2005, 01:32 PM

Maybe WinDVR could be capable of this? and for taking screen shots, WinDVD Recorder can do that, and It has some nifty features like using the movie as a wallpaper

jjsevdt · 07-25-2005, 05:39 PM

Power DVD will take stills of the movie, but what do you mean you want to capture portions of the movie? Do you want them in DIVX or something?

alanuofm · 07-25-2005, 09:08 PM

i think he means like if there was 2 minutes of footage in the middle that is really great and he wants to send it to someone, how would he just take out that 2 minutes.

aqsg72 · 07-28-2005, 08:24 PM

You can use VirtualDUB to take out a piece of the video and save that segment.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

Run the program and use 'Home' and 'End' keys to select a segment of the clip and file>save segmented avi. [Under Audio and Video leave both to 'direct stream copy']

[VirtualDUB only outputs to avi]

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newbie2005 Bronze Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 53	How do you capture video from the computer's DVD player? Say, your computer has a DVD player capable of read/write. You play your VCD and/or DVD disc using programs like Windows Media Player, RealOne Player. Is it possible to do more than just viewing the video? How do you take a snapshot? Or if you want to record a particular series of actions within the video, how is it done?

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alanuofm Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,630	well if you are able to take screen shots, then take many screen shots (30 per second) then you can convert those into an avi. i used to do this with cs movies but i dont remember the name of the program.

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Bunchofstuff banned Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: USA , Georgia Age: 20 Posts: 491	Maybe WinDVR could be capable of this? and for taking screen shots, WinDVD Recorder can do that, and It has some nifty features like using the movie as a wallpaper

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alanuofm Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,630	i think he means like if there was 2 minutes of footage in the middle that is really great and he wants to send it to someone, how would he just take out that 2 minutes.

07-28-2005, 08:24 PM	#10 (permalink)
aqsg72 VIP Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Age: 21 Posts: 235	You can use VirtualDUB to take out a piece of the video and save that segment. http://www.virtualdub.org/ Run the program and use 'Home' and 'End' keys to select a segment of the clip and file>save segmented avi. [Under Audio and Video leave both to 'direct stream copy'] [VirtualDUB only outputs to avi]

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