{"id":2701,"date":"2010-11-29T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T09:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2010-11-29T19:16:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T09:16:21","slug":"which-software-for-grabbing-dvd-frames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2701","title":{"rendered":"Which software for grabbing DVD frames?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been grabbing frames from various Blu-ray discs and DVDs, with a view to setting out some more\u00a0Blu-ray vs DVD comparisons<\/a>. I really ought to stop the frame grabbing, and start the comparion setting out.<\/p>\n

But I found something interesting when grabbing the last set, from Toy Story 3<\/em>. As I’ve mentioned before<\/a>, Disney has taken to corrupting its DVDs with a view to copy protecting them. TS3 was no different, and generally the first VOB causes trouble for the software I normally use to grab frames, VideoReDo Plus<\/a> (so far the rest of the VOBs have worked fine). Indeed, this VOB normally crashes VRD, even on a ‘Quick Stream Fix’ version of this.<\/p>\n

There was one frame in the first VOB that I would have liked to use in the comparison, so I used a different program to grab it: the freeware ‘Media Player Classic – Home Cinema<\/a>‘. This worked, but the picture was obviously soft. So I tried PowerDVD 8 (now obsolete), and its frame was better than MPC\/HC, but softer than VRD. Using mplayer under DOS<\/a> (which is what I normally use to grab Blu-ray frames) produces a similar result to PDVD8.<\/p>\n

Here’s a frame from the DVD:<\/p>\n

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and here’s a detail, unscaled, from the four products. From left to right, VideoReDo Plus, PowerDVD 8, mplayer under DOS and Media Player Classic – Home Cinema.<\/p>\n

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And here’s another detail:<\/p>\n

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Obviously the last is a total reject. But what about VRD vs the other two? Is VRD the more accurate, or are the other two?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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