Posted by Peter D on 05/18/07 00:48

"Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On a sunny day (Thu, 17 May 2007 12:00:17 -0500) it happened "Peter D"
> <please@.sk> wrote in <134p2hajtvpksdd@corp.supernews.com>:
>
>>And the "My OS is bigger and better than your OS" pissing contest
>>begins --
>>and the question asked gets lost in all the testosterone! :-)
>>
>>So, what is the best software to capture high Res Stills from video:
>
> The question is not specific enough.
> I took it first as:
> 'What is the best sotware to capture a frame from a high-res movie?'
> Linux: xine (press capture button).
> The capture will of course have the same resolution as the original video.
> You can use xv or imagemagic to increase size, but that will not add any
> more detail.
> There are legio programs that decode and display frames.....
> Transcode can do it IIRC.
> There is I even the old mpeg2 decoder C source from Berkely.
> It has _nothing_ to do with 'what OS'.

OK. then what about answering the question you answered above, but
substituting Windows XP for *nix?

> Only to do with if you have a decoder for the format.

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