ImageGrab is a nice utility aimed at extracting images from all kind of videos, also from VideoCDs or SVCDs, and even from live video streams which are delivered to the computer by a webcam, a camcorder or an analog video capture card. It includes a multimedia player able to play the video even in fullscreen, to seek precisely in the video, frame by frame, to catch pictures from the video either in bmp or jpeg format.The image may be easily corrected, in order to respect an aspect ratio of 4x3 or 16x9. ImageGrab is able to catch automatically a serie of images at a scheduled interval.

ImageGrab is freeware, you may freely use it and distribute it, as long as it is not for a commercial or professional purpose. It is not opensource, so please don't ask me for the source code. When using ImageGrab, you use it as is, on your own risk. ?

The last update of ImageGrab is version 3.0 which you may download above in English. It is 453Ko big. A french version is available for download at this page. ImageGrab has been tested under Windows XP and Windows 98se. It needs directX at least version 8.1 and better version 9.0b. ImageGrab relies dramatically on the directshow technology, so the main condition to make ImageGrab work is to have the directshow filters correctly installed on your system. If you get error messages when opening a file in ImageGrab, it is nearly always due to difficulties with the directshow filters, which are missing, badly installed, or have some internal incompatibilities. Somes "codec packs" are known to create trouble in many systems.