Stills from movie files

[الله أكبر]

My camera can record video segments, which transfer to my computer as .avi files. Are there any programs that I could download which would allow me to take stills from these movies?

[Rhino......................]

Are you on a PC? If you are, hit the Print Screen button on your keyboard. Some video programs block it, but it might work.

Macs have a handy thing where you can take a picture of a segment of the screen.

[Violent Unrest in Allentown]

VLC, which is availiable for all platforms has a snapshot utility. That's how I got this:



http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

[Violent Unrest in Allentown]

This may be over kill, but:

http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm