Using MPEG from Digital Camera

My Digital camera (a Sony Cybershot DSC-S85) can take MPEG movies that are about 30 seconds long. Does anyone know if such movies could be used to do planetary imaging? I know it's done with video cameras but I was not sure the MPEG file format is useful. Can individual frames be grabbed from the MPEG movie and then stacked? Anyone know what software will grab the frames? I assume astrostack will do the stacking. Thanks very much for any advice and clear skies to all!

John

MPEG is a "predictive" format - each frame is incomplete, only the changes between frames are stored. This makes it harder to get clean single-frame images.

But I would think that you might run into problems before that - most of the digital camera with movie capability use a lower resolution for the move images, and higher compression is also typical. Both of these get in the way of getting high-quality planetary images.

Ron Wodaski