[SOLVED] getting images from a video

skazhy · 09-09-2009, 08:18 AM

Hi!

How can I image stills from a video? Vice versa operation (making a video from images) is possible with mencoder. Is there an option for mencoder to do this too, or is there other software?

thanks in advance,

-skazhy

adamk75 · 09-09-2009, 09:09 AM

mplayer supports various image formats as video output drivers if compiled with support for them. tga, jpeg, png, gif, pnm all come to mind.

So 'mplayer -vo png video-file.avi' will dump each frame as a png image. You can combine this with the -ss and -frames option to grab a single frame at any given time in the video:

mplayer -vo png -ss 00:30:00 -frames 1 video-file.avi

This will grab one frame, at the 30 minute mark, and save it as a png file.

Adam