Posted by Oldus Fartus on 02/01/07 13:17

Doug Jacobs wrote:
> Grand Titus <grand.titus@free.fr> wrote:
>> I want to make a menu for a video with thumbnails to reach chapter.
>> I use DVDAuthorGUI
>> Do you known a software to extract images from a DVD either the first image
>> of each chapter or at least one image by second?
>
> The easiest, although probably not the best, way to do this would be to
> play the DVD on your computer and pause it at the spot you want to do the
> picture capture. Then do a screen-capture (hit the "print screen" button
> on the keyboard.) Now open up MS Paint, PhotoShop, etc. and click "Paste".
>
> You might need to clean up the image or crop it a bit first. Save it as a
> file format that your DVD authoring program can recognize. Then go back
> to your DVD authoring program and import the image.
>
>

You haven't actually tried that have you?

To the OP, most DVD playing software will have a button to capture
frames to either clipboard of to hard drive.

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Cheers
Oldus Fartus

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