[MPlayer-users] Re: Stills and sound from DSC MPEGs

Johan Vromans jvromans at squirrel.nl
Sun Jul 11 11:08:54 CEST 2004


Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl> writes:

> 1. My digital camera (Sony DSC V1) can produce short MPEG movies. For
>    cataloging, I'd like to extract a still image from the movie, for
>    example, the first image. I'm sure mplayer/mencoder can do this,
>    but I haven't been able to find out how.

Surprising, it's not mencoder but mplayer that does the trick:

  mplayer -really-quiet -nosound -frames 1 -vo jpeg file.mpg

This produces a file 00000001.jpg with the desired content.

-- Johan




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