Need to extract stills from security video. VLC?

[CZroe]

In my retail job I deal with the town PD frequently. Today, the county sheriff's office asked me for a bunch of still shots showing the faces of every thief I can provide. Though this isn't their juristiction, they want to compare to the cases they are working to see if any of the deadbeats they have from other crimes are tied to anything else they can use to nail them.

Now I need something that will let me step frames forward and backwards and save snapshots of specific frames. Will VLC do this? I plan to try and dig through the options as soon as I get home but I figured I'd better post this first (just in case).

I want to get this ASAP but the system doesn't let me extract stills from archived (exported) video and the direct recording is only good for the last couple incidents. Taking Print Screen images of Windows Media Player will not work (hardware acceleration) and I can't load any software on these locked-down PCs. It took a lot of doing to get the videos on a thumb drive for me to use my own PC on them (no MTP drivers, no UDF/packet writing DVD software, WMP only burning a few hundred MBs before reporting the discussion full, etc).

I am unsure of the codec but it's clearly something simple and low-res in an AVI container. I'm sure VLC can handle it fine and everyone we've ever shared them with has been able to use them.

 

[lxskllr]

Goto Tools menu and select advanced interface. That'll give you a few more controls. Play the video you want, and pause when you get close. Click the frame by frame button, and when it's good, press Take a snapshot button.

 

[MustISO]

VLC will do this as will Windows movie maker.