Export an image from an mpeg

[watyeag]

Is there any shareware or anything out there that can be downloaded to export an image from a mpeg movie. I have ULEAD Media Studio Pro at home and ca do it with the Video Paint option, but I am using my PC at work and just wanted something small and qucik, since I will not leave the application installed once I get done with this project. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[Tommyknocker]

Well, the trial version of WinDVD or PowerDVD may be functional long enough to capture an image.

[watyeag]

I'm not sure if we are talking about the same thing here. I don't want to play the movie and do a screen capture. The application I am used to can take a movie and hash it out frame by frame, and you can select a frame and save it as an image (jpeg). I want to be able to take a MPEG video, go frame by frame and extract an image from the video. I need the image to use in a menu for the SVCD. Thanks for the help!

[Tommyknocker]

I do not that if you are playing a moveie in PowerDVD on WinDVD, if you press the camera button, a JPEg or bitmap gets captured of the scene. Is this what we are talking about?

[Poplar]

PowerDVD 5.0 lets you play frame by frame and capture exact frame you need. Also you can do it with VDub + DVD2AVI, which is a little complicated.

[watyeag]

Thanks....but I found a good application now...

It is called CapturEx Image Grabber. It works perfectly. Thanks for the help. i have PowerDVD installed but I do not know of a camera button to press when watching a video.

[Tommyknocker]

PowerDVD installed but I do not know of a camera button to press when watching a video.

I know you already found your solution, but should the topic ever come up again:

[poopyhead]

winDVD is horrible for capturing pics.....but i like it's GUI over powerDVD.

[Dennis1968]

TMPGEnc is the best picture ripper for your purpose. yuo extract any frame you want as a JPG. it is not a player with a capture button but a picture extractor.