[MPlayer-users] Generating film strips

[RC]

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:11:40 +0200
©imon Tóth <happy.cerberus at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have tried writing my own bash script using mplayer and imagemagick,

I fail to see why you need imagemagick.

> the problem is that the only working way is to save ALL frames thru
> png video output. 

No it isn't.

> I have tried calculating the required frames and then using "mplayer
> -frames 1 -ss frame -vo png file" and "mplayer -sstep timestep -vo png
> file" but the first one creates odd results (artifacts in screens) and
> the second one sometimes jumps thru keyframes and doesn't generate the
> desired number of frames.

Yes, the first 2-3 after a seek should be discarded.  In the past it
generated one less frame than requested, but that appears to have been
fixed, and you're just using an old version.

> So, is there any way how I can make video preview using mplayer, 

There are dozens of different ways to do it.