[SOLVED] Take screenshots/screencaps of a movie?

rc nai · 11-10-2009, 11:27 PM

Is there a command line program or gtk GUI program similar to windows media player classic that can take screencaps of a movie? For example, to have a set of screencaps or small thumbnails in one image file.

I've been searching everywhere and can't seem to find a linux program that can do this.

David the H. · 11-11-2009, 10:54 AM

xine and vlc can both have screenshot taking functions. I'm sure others do as well.

As for cli, most of the video editing programs out there, like mplayer and ffmpeg can do it too. You just have to set up the command properly. Try searching google.

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-12-2009, 07:06 AM

I use:

http://moviethumbnail.sourceforge.net/

jschiwal · 11-12-2009, 07:31 AM

You can convert a video to jpeg or png files using ffmpeg.

This will convert the mpeg video to a sequence of png files, each 10 seconds apart:

ffmpeg -i video.mpg -f image2 -r .1 -y video-04%d.png

The -r option is for rate of the input. It should be the inverse of number of seconds between screencaps.

rc nai · 11-12-2009, 05:53 PM

Thank you all...

mtn sounds pretty good. I'll check this out later.

By the way, I found a bash script called slickslice and it works very well. It uses mplayer and ImageMagick which is both available from slackware by default so that's cool. You can check out slickslice here:

http://slickslice.sourceforge.net/

Consider this thread solved.