Stills From WMV File

[owensdj]

Is it possible to take still shots from a Windows Media Video(*.WMV) file? Thanks for any suggestions you can give me.

 

[Auric]

Well, it can be converted to AVI then capped with PowerDVD. Depending on the size of the job though it may be simpler to just Print Screen and paste & crop etc. in a graphics proggy like Paint Shop. doom9.org

 

[NicColt]

>Well, it can be converted to AVI then capped

within simple common sense terms, no it can't. WMV is Microsoft's MPEG4 and now they are upto v7 and v8 and it's a closed codec. Microsoft's MPEG4 v3 was hacked into divx and those can be edited but it's not a legal codec. If you have a WMV or ASF MPEG4 v3 they can be edited by VirtualDub 1.3c anything later like the v7 or v8 you will need a complicated frame server and even then results are poor.

 

[Auric]

Indeed. Another method is to use a proggy like Snagit which would eliminate the need to manually crop and save each cap.