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Extracting video frames to image files.

How can I extract all the frames in an AVI to seperate image files?

I need to do this as I have a short clip I need to turn into a GIF, I need the induvidual frames as images so that I can animate them.

Thanks in advance.

Transcode should be able to do it. Something like:

Code:

transcode -i inputvid.avi -y im,null -F gif -w 50 -o ./image

the -w is for image quality. It works for .png, but the man page doesn't make it clear if it works for .gif or not.

I just tested it on a short .mpg I have, and it seems to work, giving a series of 'image00001.gif images in the working directory. It's uncommonly slow though. It only encodes about 0.3 frames a second on my system.

I don't doubt mplayer could do it as well, but I'm not familiar with the commands for it.