I am currently using WinDVD 4 but was thinking about upgrading to the new version of WinDVD 8. Unfortunately there seems to be a major problem with the way WinDVD 8 does its still image capture compared with WinDVD 4 so I am wondering if anyone has any ideas. By the way I also looked at WinDVD 7 and it has much of the same problems, though not all.

Here is the story: in Win DVD 4 if you want to capture a group of images all you do is click the capture button, then click another button and all the images you captured are saved in a format such as cap001.bmp, cap002.bmp, etc. Then you can delete those captures from the program and if you want capture another group of images. So if you have captured and saved 15 images the first 15 will be saved as cap001 to cap015...then the next 15 will be cap016...cap030 etc.

In Win DVD 8 however instead of a simple name like cap001.bmp you get THE_NAME_OF_THE_MOVIE_1.bmp. OK, I could live with that, but if you save 15 images...the next 15 images you try to save will overwrite the first 15 images unless you go in and individually rename each image before you save them...which is obviously a PIA if you want to save several hundred images from a DVD you are watching.

Ironically, if you go to the Inter-Video site and search the knowledge base on WinDVD 8, instead of explaining how WinDVD8 handles captures it simply says that captures are stored sequentially as cap001.bmp etc. just as is done in WinDVD4...but that is NOT how it is done in WinDVD8.

Anyone know a work around for this? Or at least is there a way to contact the company and ask them to allow the old way in future editions. There does not seem to be a way to contact them unless I actually purchase WinDVD8 which I obviously don't want to do at this point.

Or is there another dvd viewer program out there that will allow these kinds of still captures to be made simply and efficiently as I can now do in WinDVD4?