Thread: The SRP Movie Quiz

Originally Posted by davisbonanza

Open Range?

You are correct sir post your pic, hope you have better luck than I did! Once again, thanks sid!
One of the greatest western shoot 'em ups there ever was, very well done and highly recomended!

Ok,
I just saw this one last night for the first time. Great movie!
http://h1.ripway.com/davisbonanza/mysteryshot.tiff

Sorry about the link business but I couldn't figure it out. I used the grab application on my mac to take a screen shot from google video. Photobucket would not let me download it so I opened a ripway account. Ripway does not have as many options as photobucket does as far as moving images arround. The screen shot is a file on my hard drive but I can't put a picture dirrectly from my hard drive onto an SRP post. If anyone has a mac remedy for this problem, please let me know.

Good Luck!

We've already come up against this problem I think. Check out the solution to the problem at this post:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/conve...tml#post266597

Also the alternative is to download and use a wonderful little dashboard widget called 'Capture' which allows you to take a screenshot much easier. Thats the one I use.

Originally Posted by davisbonanza

The screen shot is a file on my hard drive but I can't put a picture dirrectly from my hard drive onto an SRP post. If anyone has a mac remedy for this problem, please let me know.

Easy! I use a macbook. When you are writing your post, click the paperclip icon above the text box. Click browse on the first open space in the new window that should open (make sure pop-up windows aren't blocked for SRP I suppose). Then just choose the image from your HD, click upload and then go back to your posting window once the upload is complete and submit!

Originally Posted by Philadelph

Easy! I use a macbook. When you are writing your post, click the paperclip icon above the text box. Click browse on the first open space in the new window that should open (make sure pop-up windows aren't blocked for SRP I suppose). Then just choose the image from your HD, click upload and then go back to your posting window once the upload is complete and submit!

Alex,
Good looking out. I just tried the paperclip icon, it pulled my file but when I tried to upload it said invalid file. Do you think it may be a copyright issue because I captured the image from google video? Also when I click the link in my original post the quicktime player icon comes up first. Were you guys able to see the pic from the link? Any more suggestions?

Thanks,

Originally Posted by davisbonanza

Alex,
Good looking out. I just tried the paperclip icon, it pulled my file but when I tried to upload it said invalid file. Do you think it may be a copyright issue because I captured the image from google video? Also when I click the link in my original post the quicktime player icon comes up first. Were you guys able to see the pic from the link? Any more suggestions?

Thanks,

I could see the pic but yeah, the QT thing came up. I think it was a .tiff file or something which I don't know anything about but it isn't a file type that the paperclip thing supports. Looks like you made things too hard. Why not just open the dvd on your computer and make sure it is full screen (so nothing is showing but the movie- not even the movie window). Then just hold in command (apple) and shift and press 3. That should just take a screen shot and save it to your desktop as a jpeg. Then do the paperclip thing with that.

Well i took the liberty to repost the picture so y'all could see it...i had to open the file with Photoshop but ehre it is...


p.s. i want a cookie...

Originally Posted by Philadelph

I could see the pic but yeah, the QT thing came up. I think it was a .tiff file or something which I don't know anything about but it isn't a file type that the paperclip thing supports. Looks like you made things too hard. Why not just open the dvd on your computer and make sure it is full screen (so nothing is showing but the movie- not even the movie window). Then just hold in command (apple) and shift and press 3. That should just take a screen shot and save it to your desktop as a jpeg. Then do the paperclip thing with that.

Alex,
I tried to command/shift/3 and my computer told me that it could not grab while the dvd was running and to quit dvd player. When I quit dvd player I loose the image???? Computer illiteracy anyone

Originally Posted by Detach

Well i took the liberty to repost the picture so y'all could see it...i had to open the file with Photoshop but ehre it is...


p.s. i want a cookie...

Thanks Detatch, I don't have photoshop on my mac.

PM me your address and I'll send you the cookies
If no one has gotten it by tomorrow and I can figure this thing out, I'll post another picture.

Originally Posted by davisbonanza

I tried to command/shift/3 and my computer told me that it could not grab while the dvd was running and to quit dvd player. When I quit dvd player I loose the image???? Computer illiteracy anyone

Like I said in my earlier post this has already been a problem we came up against. I thought I had posted a link but just to be doubly sure i'll re-post my earlier post here.

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

Wiki has some interesting reading on the subject:

Screenshot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In particular... "DVDs are often encrypted using a patented algorithm called Content-scrambling system or CSS, making it much more difficult to take screenshots of them. Many DVD-capable media players will only play them on the overlay layer, where they cannot be captured. Mac OS X DVD player deactivates the built-in screenshot feature, but it is still possible to capture the image or the video with third party software"

Long story short, the 'Grab' utility which is part of OSX doesnt work when using the DVD player also packaged with OSX. According to Apple spokeswoman Alicia Awbrey, that's because "we designed the DVD player so one cannot grab the frame from the screen. This is part of our ongoing commitment to being a responsible player in the digital content era and protect intellectual property rights." ref.

After reading around on the net I found a way I could do it.

1. Download VLC media player if you havent already. Its free and its a great little utility for playing media files.

2. Open the movie in VLC media player. Take the movie to the point where you want to take the screenshot. Pause the movie here.

3. In the menus at the top (VLC, File, Edit, Playback, Audio, Video, Window, Help) click 'Video' and choose 'Snapshot' The same process can be achieved using Shift-Command-S.

4. This will save a snapshot of the movie at the point where you paused it. The default save location is on the Desktop. From here I personally upload the image to photobucket or similar. If you need help in doing that then let me know. I then post the image link on the SRP thread in question.


Done.

The capture widget I was talking about is available here:

Capture 0.7.9

Another just as easy solution: go to macupdate.com and search for screencapturex. Download it (free) and use it to capture just the dvd window as a screen shot.

Edit: oops, didn't see that widget link above. Either will work.