mpeg to jpeg

Anyone know of a prog to convert an mpeg to a jpg (or other graphic format) sequence?

v_Ln

Adobe live motion ? I think it can convert mpeg to .gifs...not sure, you might wanna check on that !

mplayer (1.0pre5-3.2.2) can output video using many drivers.

to name but a few, it currently has drivers which can output each frame to gif89a, jpeg and png. as well as ASCII art and colour ASCII art - these will work in a console! these options are passed with the video output flag
-vo gif89a
-vo jpeg
-vo png
-vo aa
-vo caca


other interesting relivant options include
-fps <value> to set the framerate.
-frames <number> to convert the <number> of frames then quit.
-sb <byte position> to seek to a byte position.
-ss <time> to seek to a time position.


so you probably want something like

Code:

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mplayer -vo jpeg -fps 10 -frames 10 -ss 500 File.mpg

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the resulting files are normally huge.

get mplayer and codecs here http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

should have mentioned am looking for windows software - pity as that looked perfect as well :)

v_Ln

I almost responded to this earlier, but couldn't quite figure out if you were wanting an *entire* mpg into one jpg, or if you were wanting to do vidcaps... Adobe livemotion does wonderfully. I'm curious if photoshop could do the captures? Never played with it.

there is a Windows beta, but i've never tried it. so i don't know what functionality it has, nor do i know how well it works.

i'm sure you will find a suitable Windows app to do the job.

if all else fails, you might get away with painstakingly screenshooting the mpg...t'would be messy though.