Converting video to still frames

thegamefreak0134 · Post by **thegamefreak0134** » Fri 14 Sep, 2007 8:36 pm

Hello all, been a while. I am working on a random project, and I need to be able to work with the individual frames of a video file, as images, so I can convert them and work with them in my program. Does anyone know of a free program I can use to do this? The problem is, I need this conversion to run on a school computer, so it needs to be self-contained, as registry installs and other such things do not work so well.

If there is a way to do this using code in VB.NET, I could use that as well. I'm just stuck on options right now.

Thanks!

-Nick

coelurus · Post by **coelurus** » Sat 15 Sep, 2007 10:06 am

mplayer

d4vz · Post by **d4vz** » Sat 15 Sep, 2007 5:26 pm

I believe VirtualDub has what you need.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

Post by **benryves** » Mon 17 Sep, 2007 9:51 am

If you want to do this yourself, DirectShow should do the trick (use the MediaDet class).

I'd just use VirtualDub, though.

Post by **DarkAuron** » Tue 18 Sep, 2007 1:01 am

Virtualdub is also the program I'd recommend, though you can't open wmv files thanks to MS.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Tue 18 Sep, 2007 7:46 am

I believe there is an old version of virtualdub that allows you to open wmv (0.3a or something). It might be hard to find and i dont think it would support any of the newer wmv's :S.

hop · Post by **hop** » Tue 18 Sep, 2007 8:46 am

VirtualDub 1.3c is the latest version with ASF/WMV support. It's easy to find.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Tue 18 Sep, 2007 9:21 am

Ahh yes, i knew it had a 3 in it. When they got in trouble with ms all those years ago, it wasnt so easy to find. The power of file hosting

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Post by **benryves** » Tue 18 Sep, 2007 9:43 am

I don't know if it's worth complaining about lack of ASF support, given that it doesn't even support MPEG-2.

Fortunately there's VirtualDubMod for that.

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Wed 19 Sep, 2007 12:28 am

not sure, but i think the gimp animation package can do it, though how good, duno.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Fri 21 Sep, 2007 5:19 am

hop wrote:VirtualDub 1.3c is the latest version with ASF/WMV support. It's easy to find.

I've put this version on my PC and it doesn't have wmv support either it seems, I've checked the help files, typed in wmv then tried again with windows media audio and found no results. No way to open/import wmv files either

hop · Post by **hop** » Fri 21 Sep, 2007 8:49 am

It supports wmv but maybe not the version your movie files are in.

When in doubt convert to avi?

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sat 22 Sep, 2007 3:55 am

well two of mine are wmv, since they were originally made with WMM. I have no program to convert them to other format, which is why I checked the version of vdub you posted, but I had no luck finding any wmv conversion/open option. If you can find where it is i would like a screenshot. maybe they didn't made it obvious

coelurus · Post by **coelurus** » Sat 22 Sep, 2007 7:48 am

ffmpeg?

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sat 22 Sep, 2007 4:48 pm