Screen shots of DVD movies ?

I like to keep still images of movies I have to a database of mine. With any software it's no
problem but with DVD Player (Mac OSX) I cannot do that, DVD Player does not allow users
to do screen shots while DVD Player is active.
I bought the DVD movie not to mention the fact that its my computer and I'd like to do
whatever I want with it. I fail to comprehend how doing a screen shot (image at 72 dpi...) of
a movie constitutes a major criminal act...
Please enlighten me......
Is there any way of going around this ?
Thanks

I fail to comprehend how doing a screen shot (image at 72 dpi...) of
a movie constitutes a major criminal act...
It's not major, and it will result more in civil action than criminal.
I cannot, based on the terms of use of this forum, tell you how someone using VLC or another movie-playing application could use Movie2Shot or some other kind of screen-grab software to commit these civil violations, so please don't ask me to.

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This is my first time posting with this and I am a relatively new user to macs to I am not too sure what I am doing.
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Welcome to discussions!
Your best bet is to ask this question in the iMac forum (Click on this link and then scroll down to where is says something about using DVDs and CDs with your Mac)
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=132
:)Sue
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Position your cursor where you want the still.
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In Mac Help, there is this notation regarding screen shots:
Some applications, such as DVD Player, may not let you take pictures of the screen.
What other applications there may be, I don't know. Maybe this applies to your lost screen shot?
The last thing to try is PREVIEW>FILE>NEW FROM CLIPBOARD.
This then exhausts my ammunition on this item.
Your post of Dec 12, 2011 3:33 AM seems to raise a new problem;
ALL my files are on this current account that doesn't take screen shots...and I don't know how to move everything from my documents, to my pictures in iPhoto and music in iTunes.
I suggest you repost this with more details, thus increasing you audience.
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I shot a video of MY own family using MY own video camera, then made a movie using MY own Mac and burned it to MY own DVD-R disk. However, when I try to capture a frame of MY own movie using MY own Mac's DVD Player, it will not let me because the MPAA dictates to Apple.
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In Terminal run:
screencapture -ics
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space key - toggle between mouse selection and
window selection modes
escape key - cancels interactive screen shot
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-x do not play sounds
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No screen capture when DVD Player is running?!

I have a DVD of my band playing a show that I want to take quick snaps from so I could post it on MySpace, but some genius at Apple decided you shouldn't be allowed to take screenshots with DVD Player is on.
Do they do this with any other program?
I could type out a copyrighted article or book in Word. Download a copyrighted movie as a .mov file off P2P. Take a screenshot and post it as a PDF or JPG.
Better yet, why don't they block YouTube.com so nobody can view stolen, copyrighted material.
It's my DVD, I made it. It is not copyrighted in any way. Yet for some reason they have taken the liberty to ensure I won't be able to take a snapshot of it, because there might be a chance someone would want to take a JPG of a copywrited movie.
I guess I could always download Handbrake and make it a .mov file, THEN take the screen shot. Or maybe Apple will read this and make it so I can't download that program.

I have a DVD of my band playing a show that I want to
take quick snaps from so I could post it on MySpace,
but some genius at Apple decided you shouldn't be
allowed to take screenshots with DVD Player is on.
Apple didn't decide to do this. To get the decrypting code for their DVD Player they had to sign a license with the DVD consortium. The movie industry sets the license terms and they don't want ANYTHING copied.
Do they do this with any other program?
No, but there are similar issues. For example, Preview will disable the "Save as PDF" print option for some PDF files (such as filled-in PDF forms), the same as Adobe's Acrobat reader does. They might have a PDF license from Adobe that requires this.
It's my DVD, I made it. It is not copyrighted in any
way. Yet for some reason they have taken the liberty
to ensure I won't be able to take a snapshot of it,
because there might be a chance someone would want to
take a JPG of a copywrited movie.
The DVD Player application has no way of telling that you are the copyright holder. They may just assume that the maker of a DVD would have all the source material and could get all the screen-shots needed from that.
There is VLC, but it is probably illegal in the USA. There are other screen-shot programs that don't have restrictions against DVDs. Look on VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

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