Its easy to do with VLC Media Player just by right-clicking on the screen and choosing Snapshot when what you want a picture of is on screen, the resulting picture will be saved in the My Pictures folder by default and in the png format which most photo programs will recognize.
You'll have best results capturing slow moving or static objects because although ~30 snapshots a second sounds like a lot, when compared to an average shutter stop speed, its slow, so don't expect great quality--just good enough to get by with in most cases.
The GOM player can actually be set up to capture 999 bitmap frames at a time from a video. This might be useful if you want to make a bunch of captures and then just choose the one you like best without having to try and get just the one "right" one on an individual basis.
In both cases the players can be made to capture natively in jpeg format but I'd recommend against that because the quality will be affected even more--capture in png or bmp (GOM) format, make your edits and then save as jpeg if need be.
Last edited by fairnooks : 18-Jul-2008 03:42 PM.
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