I haven't  found either CSS or Macrovision  copy protection to be a
problem capturing frames from DVDs while they play in my computer
drive.  Just turn off the video accelerator in a typical software such
as PowerDVD (which bypasses the graphics card) and grab away. The result
is hardly the quality of a full-tone 35mm movie still from MOMA, but
Photoshop will blow it up without a lot of annoying distortion.  I find
that the frame grabs look pretty good on a book page.  Given the amount
of information on the DVD, I believe--though I cannot  prove--that the
quality of these grabs could be higher.  Perhaps in some software they
are.  I'm far too little the tech-head to know what governs that
resolution, however.
N

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Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
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Virginia Tech
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