: For specific frames, you can take a screenshot and use standard mobile or desktop OCR features (like "Live Text" on macOS/iOS or "Google Lens" on Android) to highlight and copy the text. 3. Access Embedded Metadata

: Open the video in VLC , go to the "Subtitle" menu, and see if there are internal tracks you can enable or view.

If the "text" you need is the spoken dialogue within the video, you can use AI-powered transcription tools:

: Your computer might be trying to open it with a text editor like Notepad or TextEdit. Right-click the file, select "Open with," and choose a dedicated media player like Windows Media Player or QuickTime .

: Provides an MP4-to-text converter that generates editable transcripts in multiple languages.

If the file is opening (showing gibberish code) instead of playing: