Capturing stills from HD DVD (off harddisk) to disk

[asarian]

Hello,

I have HD DVD material on harddisk (.EVO files). Now, what I'd like to do is very simple. I want to be able to find some authoring tool that lets me save stills/frames of the movie to disk, in the HD DVD resolution, of course. Seems simple enough, you'd think. But I have the hardest time finding such software. Most of them offer "capture" capability, but usually they mean from TV or other live source.

I'm sure this qualifies as a newbie question of sorts. So, pardon me if this all sounds rather daft, but if someone could tell me how to do it and/or point me to software that does, I'd be most grateful.

Thanks

[Baldrick]

What do you play the hddvd with?

Not sure about screen capturing in PowerDVD Ultra, although it’s fairly easy to work around these limitations by simply making sure that another device is using the overlay before you start the program (e.g. open an AVI in Media Player, then run PowerDVD). This forces PowerDVD to render the video in software as part of the primary viewing area, meaning that the printscreen function should work as normal. Of course, it will probably be unplayably slow for HD material, but it serves the purpose for obtaining screen captures.

[Baldrick]

but I think powerdvd and windvd disables prtscrn....they are doing everything to prevent copying. But maybe it works better from decrypted hd dvds.

[asarian]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yeah, I used both PowerDVD HD 6.5 + 7.2 Ultra; but for some reason I won't let me make screengrabs. Plus, I can hardly see the movie as my brightness gets pushed to ridiculously high levels (some sort of driver glitch, I'm sure; I got a 7800 GTX, btw).

For regular DVD, I have a prog call DVDGoPro; that nicely lets you step through the film and allows you to save grabs to disk. I was hoping maybe something like that existed for HD DVD too. But I'll go for a regular screengrab if I can make one.

[asarian]

Anyone?

[Cornucopia]

Let's see...

1. Backup/Decrypt with HDDVDBackup
2. Demux with EVODemux
3. (Assuming you've got h.264/AVC) Open in QTPro.
4. Print Screen, or Select In & Out point tonly have 1 frame and save a file (BMP, PNG, etc)

Scott

[asarian]

Let's see...

1. Backup/Decrypt with HDDVDBackup
2. Demux with EVODemux
3. (Assuming you've got h.264/AVC) Open in QTPro.
4. Print Screen, or Select In & Out point tonly have 1 frame and save a file (BMP, PNG, etc)

Scott

Thanks, Scott. I'm going to try this. Really appreciate it.

[Baldrick]

BackupHDDVD...clickable link...

And most new HD DVDs are in VC-1, maybe it work fine to play in Media Player Classic if you have wmp11 installed and use File->Save Image or play with Windows Media Player 11 and turn off hardware acceleration to capture screenshots.

[Cornucopia]

That makes more sense!

Well, it was the wee hours when I wrote that...

Scott

[asarian]

That makes more sense! :)

Well, it was the wee hours when I wrote that...

Scott

The streams seem coded in VC-1, but sense or no, Windows Media Player 11 cannot display them. On the main feature I get the director's commentary only, for sound, and no video (some of the outtakes, btw, are playable; but they're not HD, I reckon).

Also, demuxed with EVODemux (which told me the main feature was a VC-1 stream). but I'm still no closer to playing the resulting .mpv video. Basically, it just gives me the video stream sans the audio. :) (which is fine for screen-grabs, of course). But PowerDVD and such still cannot play the .mpv file. And QTPro seem a Mac program (I use Windoze).

Thanks anyway, as always.