{"id":378,"date":"2006-09-19T21:44:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T15:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/19\/how-to-take-screenshots-from-dvd-video-using-free-tools\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T22:29:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T16:29:33","slug":"how-to-take-screenshots-from-dvd-video-using-free-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/19\/how-to-take-screenshots-from-dvd-video-using-free-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"How to take screenshots from DVD video using free tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial will guide you to take a screenshot, screen dump or screen capture from a DVD.<\/p>\n<p>First we need to install a free software (open source) called <strong>Media Player Classic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Download:<br \/>\n<!--adsense#HalfBanner--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/prdownloads.sourceforge.net\/guliverkli\/mpc2kxp6490.zip?download\">Media Player Classic for Windows XP and Windows 2000<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/prdownloads.sourceforge.net\/guliverkli\/mpc98me6490.zip?download\">Media Player Classic for Windows ME and Windows 98<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The software doesnt even need any installation. Simply extract the .zip and run the <strong>mplayerc.exe<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image370\" alt=\"DVD Screenshot - mplayerc.exe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/dvd-screenshot-mplayerc-exe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This brings up the Windows Media Player Classic.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image371\" alt=\"Windows Media Player Classic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/windows-media-player-classic.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on <strong>File > Open DVD&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image372\" alt=\"Media Player Classic - Open DVD\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/media-player-classic-open-dvd.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This starts playing your DVD movie.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image373\" alt=\"DVD Screenshot - Play DVD\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/dvd-screenshot-play-dvd.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(yes the screen is blank here&#8230; cause you cannt capture dvd screenshot with traditional PrintScreen key)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now when are at the screen you capture, click on the <strong>pause<\/strong> button.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image374\" alt=\"DVD Screenshot - Pause Movie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/dvd-screenshot-pause.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on <strong>File > Save Image&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image375\" alt=\"DVD Screen Capture - Save Image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/dvd-screen-capture-save-image.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Save the file.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image376\" alt=\"DVD Save Image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/dvd-save-image.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You should pay attention that you save the file as JPEG (.jpg)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image377\" alt=\"DVD Save As JPEG (jpg)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/dvd-save-as-jpg-file.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial will guide you to take a screenshot, screen dump or screen capture from a DVD. First we need to install a free software (open source) called Media Player Classic Download: Media Player Classic for Windows XP and Windows 2000 Media Player Classic for Windows ME and Windows 98 The software doesnt even need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[80,141,304,29,39,310],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tips","category-tutorials","tag-dvd","tag-screenshot","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-tips-and-tricks","tag-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}