[P1] Capturing video clips from DVD

[Anders Bogdan]

That iBook has an ATI video card and SnapzProX won't be of any help, as 
it can only capture from NVidia cards.. That would have been the 
easiest, I think.

Next easiest is if you have a miniDV camera w/firewire. Put the dvd 
into a dvd player and connect the dvd player to your camera and either 
record to tape or passthru (if your camera can do it) to the iBook via 
firewire and capture from iMovie. Then you'll need to find a way to 
reduce the size of the video stream you just made...

Your best hope after this is to check www.versiontracker.com for "dvd 
capture" or the like - or on google. An app called VLC 
(www.videolan.org) supposedly will allow capture but I've never been 
able to figure it out. Looks like it might capture a clip. Or "save a 
stream" if that's similar.

Sorry, I don't think there is an easy solution, I would be glad to hear 
of one though.

Anders



On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 03:21  PM, Mark Kippert wrote:

> I have a 500MHz Dual USB iBook with combo drive, currently running 
> Jaguar. I
> was wondering if there is a way to capture small video clips from a 
> DVD? I
> just want to send a couple small QuickTimes to a friend, nothing high 
> end.
>
> -Mark