So that's kind of neat: presumably the MPAA or whoever forced Apple to disable Grab.app (the screen capture tool) from being able to take screen shots when a DVD is playing*. But the "screencapture" command in Terminal.app works just fine.
screencapture -cputs the image in the clipboard, ready for pasting into the image editor of one's choice. And so we can all revel in the sweet 1978 wall telephone at minute 10 of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
*I guess so I won't take 30 screen shots every second for an entire two-hour movie, and then stitch them all back together to recreate the movie file. If I want to copy a DVD, I use Handbrake; it takes a lot less time and effort.
Posted by Charles on May 23, 2010 01:09 AM