Video app that will capture still

[paulburton]

Is there a Linux compatible video app that will capture stills from mp4 etc

 

[AlphaObeisance]

VLC Player is pretty standard

 

[Brickwizard]

Kdenlive also works

 

[KGIII]

If you want to go hardcore, open your terminal and type in man ffmpeg.

 

[APTI]

When I want to do that I just pause the video and hit printscreen button. works wonders.

 

[MikeWalsh]

I'll second the suggestion for VLC. The 'Advanced interface' available in 'Preferences' has a dedicated button specifically FOR this....or you can use the built-in tools to add it to the 'Basic' interface as a standalone function.

The well-known SMPlayer - basically a GUI 'front-end' for mPlayer - also has one. It's not a trick unique to Windows, believe me!

Many Linux apps designed for handling/editing/processing video will have some means of extracting & generating still images from the video datastream, if such is required.


Mike.

 

[bob466]

I can do the same with Flameshot...simple.

 

[GatorsFan]

VLC Media Player does it - when video is playing click on Video then click on Take Snapshot - it saves them to /home/username/Pictrures - too easy

 

[MikeWalsh]

I can do the same with Flameshot...simple.

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I'd forgotten all about Flameshot. Haven't used it for a few years, but from what I recall it's quite easy to use.

When I want to do that I just pause the video and hit printscreen button. works wonders.

Yup; that'll work too. Though I have one of these 'compact' keyboards - no PrintScreen button, y'see - so for me, that one would take a bit of messing around with xdotool to get working.

(Off-topic:- Me, I either use a Puppy-native app called "Take A Shot!" OR the KDE Project's KSnip (which you can get as a standalone AppImage).....screenshot-cum-image editor.

From here:-

Releases · ksnip/ksnip

ksnip the cross-platform screenshot and annotation tool - ksnip/ksnip

github.com

I use v1.7.3, from 2020. Works well for what I want.)

Mike.

 

[Alexzee]

VLC Player is pretty standard

Agreed, VLC pretty much does just about everything.