Frame grabber

letsbehonest

My daughter needs to print up some single frames off of a dvd for part of her university homework. What I need is some simple frame grabber software, as this will probably be a one off a freebee program would be more desirable.Any suggestions please.
regards

cookie_monster_8

just a quick thought,

would the print screen button be enough. she could play the movie then pause it at the approptiate spot. then hit the print screen button. this will take a screenshot. then go into word or whatver she is using and crop it.

alternatively maybe you could load the movie into windows movie maker and then save the frame?? although loading it in may take a while

i know nero vision express can do it but again you may not have that.

possibly look throug this google link http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=screen+capture+software&meta=

unfortuantely i have to go dfor dinner now

rich_jtg

Screen shots often don't work with video.

However, VLC media player has a 'snapshot' function that will take a copy at screen resolution... oh and it's free!

Mercenary

The standard Windows Media Player 10 has this feature available:

"To capture a DVD image
On the View menu, point to DVD Features, and then click Capture Image.
Notes

This feature is only available if video mixing rendering is turned on in the Player and the DVD decoder and display hardware support video mixing rendering. To turn on video mixing rendering, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Performance tab. Click Advanced, and then, in the DVD Video area, select the Use video mixing renderer check box. Some display hardware only supports video mixing rendering if the screen resolution is set to 800 x 600 pixels and the color quality is set to 16-bit. For more information about changing screen resolution and color quality, see Windows Help."