If you have VLC on your system then you can grab a series of still frames with that. It requires changing some of the advanced settings but it works perfectly and is very configurable in terms of file type, frequency of grabs, saved location and so on.
p,s, If anybody wants to try it - VLC/settings, select "All" bottom left, expand "Video" and "Filters" then select "Scene filter" in that section enter filetype required e.g. "jpg" leave next 3 items at "-1","-1" and "scene" and then choose save location that exists, on my system e.g. "D:\capture" (case sensitive). Now you need to do a bit of math for "Recording ratio". This is the frequency at which frames are captured while the video is playing. The default is 50 and if a 50fps video is being displayed then 1 frame will be captured each second. Change that to 150 and 1 frame will be captured every 3 seconds, 25 = 2 frames a second and so on.
The downside to using this method is that you have to actually play the video and the frames are captured as it plays.
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