In this paper, we propose a video extraction algorithm directly in compressed domain for low cost and fast content access to those compressed video data via MPEGs. Extensive experiments show that such extracted images and videos not only maintain well-preserved content features, but also illustrate reasonable quality in terms of both PSNR values and visual inspection. In cases, where video processing tasks do not necessarily require full resolution pixel data such as browsing, pattern recognition, and object tracking in surveillance applications, the proposed algorithm will provide superior performance in terms of computing efficiency, under the context that millions of video frames need to be accessed, yet they are stored in compressed format.