video frame grabber?

NetRAVEN5000 · 03-30-2006, 06:05 PM

I want to put some video clips on my site, and I want some thumbnails to go with the links. What's a good Linux framegrabber I can use? I want one that I can set to do multiple clips at once, and that I can set what point in the video it captures from, preferably one with a GUI too.

kencaz · 03-30-2006, 06:39 PM

I usually just pause the video and take a screenshot using ImageMagic or Gimp. Then you can just crop the frame out and reduce if needed.

KC

NetRAVEN5000 · 03-30-2006, 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kencaz

I usually just pause the video and take a screenshot using ImageMagic or Gimp. Then you can just crop the frame out and reduce if needed.

KC

Yeah but I don't want to have to crop it and stuff. I wanna just capture it, resize it, and then put it on a web page.

kencaz · 03-30-2006, 07:21 PM

Well, you don't have to capture the whole screen just do a window select...

KC

NetRAVEN5000 · 03-30-2006, 07:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kencaz

Well, you don't have to capture the whole screen just do a window select...

KC

I don't want to cut things out of the picture. I want a program that just takes the video, goes to the specified time in the clip, and takes an exact capture of what's in that particular frame.

I know there's gotta be a way to do this - when I put my mouse over video files in KDE it shows me a frame a couple seconds into the clip. Not the movie, just a picture of what's in that particular frame.

mikshaw · 03-30-2006, 08:40 PM

mplayer will do it.
-ss <timepos> Seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position
-frames <number> Play/convert only first <number> frames, then quit.
-vo <gif89a,jpeg,pnm,png,tga>

NetRAVEN5000 · 05-05-2006, 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikshaw

mplayer will do it.
-ss <timepos> Seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position
-frames <number> Play/convert only first <number> frames, then quit.
-vo <gif89a,jpeg,pnm,png,tga>

sweet, thanks!