Frame Extractor

[RBCC]

I have several vob files and would like to extract the frames from them but can't seem to find a piece of software that will do this. Can anyone think of a pieces of software that will do this??? Thank you John

[aedipuss]

most video players will take a screenshot.

[yoda313]

Yes mpchc for one has a screenshot feature.

You can use virtualdub and the directshowsource filter to open virtually any video file. Then with virtualdub you can export bmp (I am sure there is a way to do jpg but I think it defaults to bmp, could be wrong though) in a series of stills from the whole video.

I don't know if you can specify a range, I'm sure you can I just don't know off hand. I think its called image sequence or something. Basically just exports a ton of still shots from a section of the video.

Might be more than you need as a single pic might be all you want.

[fvc]

You should be able to use most video screen capture software.

Fast video indexer I know works http://www.fastvideoindexer.com (I wrote it...). You can use the fully working trial version to extract the frames you need for free.

If you don't get it to work with fast video indexer or Another program your computer is most likely missing an mpeg2 directshow codec. Just search this forum for info on how to solve that.

[Budman1]

I tried FFMpeg of a 35 second/24 FPS VOB file with the parameters of:
ffmpeg -i "C:\path\to\video\VTS_04_0.VOB" -f image2 -vf fps=fps=1/10 -s 1280x640 "C:\path\to\videofolder\vts_04\img%03d.jpg"

This yields 8 JPG's (24FPS X 35Second = 840Frames / 10(1/10 above) ---> 8 jpg.

If you want a particular frame use:
ffmpeg -iinput.vob -ss 00:00:14.435 -f image2 -vframes 1 out.jpg

The above yields the JPG from the frame at 14.435 seconds.

The -s 1280x640 used in the first example was because my test video was 1280x634 and the 634 is not divisible by 16 or even 4 and FFMpeg throws an error about dimensions. Normally this is not necessary.