Tools for extracting individual frames of an AVI movie file

I am looking for Linux tools for extracting the individual frames of an
AVI movie file, and saving them to files in bitmap formats such as
JPEG. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance,


Paolo Amoroso

On 20 Feb 2006 08:50:11 -0800, amoroso@mclink.it staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> I am looking for Linux tools for extracting the individual frames of
> an AVI movie file, and saving them to files in bitmap formats such as
> JPEG. Any suggestions?

mplayer -vo jpeg file.avi
(generates 1 JPEG per frame, plays all frames)

mplayer -vo jpeg -ss 1:23:45 -frames 20 file.avi
(-sseeks to 1 hour 23 minutes 45 seconds in file.avi, generates 20 JPEGs
from the subsequent frames, quits)

"man mplayer" for more stuff, like skipping to the start of a DVD
chapter.

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This works nicely. I had checked the MPlayer documentation, but didn't
realize it provides this functionality. Thank you very much,


Paolo Amoroso