Hopefully you have already installed or at least heard of the invaluable open source media player known as VLC. If youвЂ™d like to avoid all of this trouble to begin with, there is indeed yet another way to capture DVD screenshots вЂ“ although not with AppleвЂ™s built-in DVD Player. The only downside to this approach is that youвЂ™ll need to open your screen grab in Preview to crop off the top and bottom parts of the window.

The entire frame should be highlighted, so all thatвЂ™s left to do is click on it.ДЄ new image file should instantly show up on your Desktop.

Press the spacebar and hover over the DVD Player window.

Press Command+Tab to switch back to DVD Player without making any clicks.

When you hit Enter/Return on your keyboard, the mouse cursor will change from an arrow to crosshairs.

Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and copy & paste the following command:.

Go to the exact frame you want to capture and then pause playback.

If you havenвЂ™t already done so, launch DVD Player to play your movie.

But while attempts to take a screenshot via normal methods (Command+Shift+3, for example) produce this stern warning, there is a way to get around it. Please quit DVD Player first.вЂќ UghвЂ¦ what an inconvenience.

YouвЂ™ve probably seen the error before: вЂњScreen grabs are unavailable during DVD playback. With a little trickery (or a different video player), that problem can be solved. Due to a limitation which prevents screenshots from being taken while DVD Player is running, grabbing frames from movies is a hassle.

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