[MPlayer-users] Re: Extracting image from a movie

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
> Withe command
> 
> mplayer levy.avi -ss 60 -vo png -nosound -frames 1
> 
> I get two images one of the opening frame and one from the frame
>  starting at 60 seconds. (etc. If a try to make images of 
> two frames with '-frames 2' I get three images. One of the
>  first frame + the two frames starting from 60 sec.)
> 
> I can't figure out why I get this first frame as a png image.

Yes, I remeber that problem. It has to do with how -ss is implemented. 
It starts playback and then seeks, afaik, thus giving you always one 
frame from the beginning.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger