Is there a FREE program that allows you to turn images from a DVD to jpegs?

Question

I'm looking for something where I can play a DVD in my computer and then pause it on the frame that I want turned into a jpeg, and then this magic program will make it happen. If it exists, please provide a link. Thank you.

Answer 1

VLC media player

www.videolan.or/vlc

File>Open Disc>Choose the drive that your DVD is in

Play the DVD, Pause when you get to the spot. You can even slow down the playback so you're more precise by clicking the double-arrow pointing left. You should be able to slow down more than once even.

File>Preferences>Video will let you choose where to save the files, and you can save to .png (compressed with no loss of quality) or .jpg (compressed with some quality loss, but smaller file size than .png)

When you're ready to take a snapshot, File>Video>Snapshot will save a snap to the folder you have specified.

Control+Alt+S  should be the keyboard shortcut to take a snap if you don't want to use the file menu.

If you were so inclined, you could even take a frame-by-frame snap and turn those frames into an animated .gif picture (with some other program such as photoshop)