Using VirtualDubMod to do DVD screenshots?

[mikewg]

I love using VirtualDubMod when working with videos because it's an easy way to go back and forth between frames and find the exact picture I'm looking for when pulling screen captures. However, and excuse my lack of terminology, but the pictures come out deinterlaced - where there's two pictures in one with the lines through it. Is there a filter or a way to pull screenshots from a DVD's VOB file using VirtualDubMod without the lines being there? Perferably not a blur filter as I want to keep as much quality as possible.

[Pinstripes23]

It's interlace.

As for your question, probably not. Although if it NTSC-film, vdubmod should be able to ignore the pulldown flags, and just display full progressive frames - no interlacing. Why not do screen caps with a player, like VLC that has options for deinterlacing on-the-fly.

[mikewg]

I just downloaded and tried VLC. It's just like any other DVD playing software. I also tried PowerDVD recently. The problem is that there's no easy way to go back and forth a frame or two to find the exact picture I'm looking for. Not like VirtualDubMod does. Something I can go frame by frame, forwards and backwards and find exactly what I'm looking for, interlaced.

Is there not a way to interlace in VirtualDubMod? I tried to figure out what Pinstripes23 was talking about "displaying full progressive frames" but I can't find anything about this in VDM.

[mikewg]

Nevermind, I found it.

Video - Filters - Add - deinterlace

That adds a deinterlace filter to the video and gets rid of the lines. Now I can go frame by frame and find exactly the shots I want.

[redwudz]

VLC can do that, sort of. You find the general area you want to snapshot, then use the - key to slow down the framerate. Then you can hit pause when the proper frame comes up. You can make a little jump backwards by using the shift/arrow keys if you miss the desired frame. At least you will get a stable picture that way.