Windows 10: AVI frame to still image?

Please, how do I go about converting an AVI frame to a still image easily? So far nothing seems simple.*Sad

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Neither Media player or Mediabox will play my .avi videos

I have installed Mediabox and the extended support CODECs for the N900. However, it will still not play most of my videos off my streaming media server (the programs can see the files ok).



When I try to play them, I have sound, and sometimes I can see a ghost image frozen on the screen, but no video. They can play some low resolution ones 320x240.



The videos I am trying to play that wont are :



512 x 384, bitrate 1154 kbps, 23 frames/second Divx avi

576 x 432, bitrate 1057 Kbs, 23 Frames/second Divx avi

640 x 480, bitrate 1066 kbs, 23 frames/second Divx avi

624 x 352, bitrate 1109 kbs, 23 frames/second Xvid avi



any ideas why these are not supported or where i could get CODECs that will support them, they play fine on windows media player and quicktime and on my Ps3 ?





thanks

 

Videos prob

Arshi,

Just google for "Any video converter" and install it in your PC.

Use 800*480 video frame size/res.

Convert it into a mp4 or a avi format.

Cheers

 

I use a free Open Source command line utility called FFmpeg FFmpeg for most of my video processing and editing.

One of its options is to convert a video into a sequence of individual images (it can also do the reverse, turn a sequence of images into a video). To extract half a second's worth of .png images from an AVI video starting at 5 minutes in, the command line would be:

ffmpeg -i input.avi -ss 300 -to 300.5 image%d.png

The %d is replace by a number, for a 25fps video this command will produce images named image1.png to image12.png

Note that if the video is widescreen (16:9) you may find the aspect ratio of the extracted needs adjusting because the pixels in the original video are not 'square' (they get stretched by the codec when you watch the video). FFmpeg has a 'scale' video filter (-vf) that can adjust for that. You may need to work out from the size of the video frame and the aspect ratio exactly what figures to use. As an example:

ffmpeg -i input.avi -ss 300 -to 300.5 -vf scale=1280:720 image%d.png

Working from a command line is fiddly, but FFmpeg is very powerful, so I find it's worth the effort.

 

VLC at Official download of VLC media player, the best Open Source player - VideoLAN will also allow you to select a frame from any video as a still

 

Most decent media players can save stills or screenshots.

PotPlayer



LightAlloy




Shotcut (video editor)



If you use WMP then I think you're stuck with snipping tool or PrintScreen options.