What is the best software(s) for...

[Slayer 0]

...getting screen caps and sound bites from DVDs?

[MrRant 0]

Well how are you planning on watching the DVDs? Do you have a DVD player in your computer? You can just be watching a DVD... pause it and do ALT-Print Screen on your keyboard for a screen cap.

[Slayer 0]

Well how are you planning on watching the DVDs? Do you have a DVD player in your computer? You can just be watching a DVD... pause it and do ALT-Print Screen on your keyboard for a screen cap.

Playing with DVD-Drive on computer.

 

And print screen doesn't work with DVD players, I've tried. I read somewhere it has to do with the fact that the DVD-playing image isn't actually on the screen, so the computer doesn't "see" it when you try a basic screen capture... I've heard there's software you need to do this, and that's what I'm asking for

 

And that still doesn't answer how to get soundbites either

[Fökai 0]

For screencaps, use the WinDVD4 player. When you press the "P" button on your keyboard, it'll save the current image into a cache (not on your computer). From there, you can save or delete any images you want (NOTE: they ARE saved as bitmaps, so you should download Paint Shop Pro 7 to resize and covert it to a smaller format - jpeg's are my preference).

 

For ripping audio, it ranges from freeware like River Past Audio Capture to higher quality products (mine being SuperMP3Recorder, priced at $19.99). It all depends on the quality of audio you want from your soundbites. If you want anything beyond 56 kbps - which is fine for freeware - you'll need to puchase SuperMP3Recorder or something along those lines.

 

WinDVD4 (with key generator) and Paint Shop Pro 7 be found on Kazaa. For the audio capture programs, you'll find the downloads through web search engines.

[HarleyQuinn 0]

I also like using the PowerDVD program which I got from Kazaa and for sound bites, I use Cool Edit Pro 2(Can save them as MP3's, WAV's, etc.)

[Slayer 0]

I also like using the PowerDVD program which I got from Kazaa and for sound bites, I use Cool Edit Pro 2(Can save them as MP3's, WAV's, etc.)

I have PowerDVD too (came with my comp), but I looked all over it and haven't found how to get screencaps with it...

[HarleyQuinn 0]

When playing the movie, just click on the camera button located on the little menu bar next to the play, ff, rewind, stop buttons(Best used with the pause button IMO)

[Slayer 0]

When playing the movie, just click on the camera button located on the little menu bar next to the play, ff, rewind, stop buttons(Best used with the pause button IMO)

I don't get it. I even double checked by online searching, and my PowerDVD doesn't look anything like what I'm seeing help images for

 

Example: My config menu has two rows of tabs instead of one, and the general tab does not have the advanced controls to allow screen capture

 

Yet the About file says "Version 4.0" on it, but this doesn't look like it.

 

Did I get screwed or something?

[HarleyQuinn 0]

Possibly but upon inspecting my PowerDVD it's the PowerDVDXP version so I'm not sure what the 4.0 version looks like.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

I forget how to do it, but you can configure Windows to use the PC output as input for any sound recording app. It's in the advanced sound control panels somewhere I think?

 

Anyway, playing the clip while having record on COULD work, though I can't guarantee it because copy protection is so complex these days that idiot solutions like that don't always work. In which case you'll have to rip the DVD and convert the ac3 into something usable.