Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Create a thumbnail image every X seconds of the video

Timestamp:

Nov 19, 2012, 10:55:25 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

Carl Eugen Hoyos

Comment:

-r has problems (see ticket #1578), always use -vf fps

Create a thumbnail image every X seconds of the video

@@ -8 +8 @@
 But, what if you want to extract thumbnails periodically? This will create one thumbnail image every second, named out1.png, out2.png, out3.png, ...
 {{{
-ffmpeg -i input.flv -f image2 -r 1 out%d.png
+ffmpeg -i input.flv -f image2 -vf fps=fps=1 out%d.png
 }}}
 
@@ -14 +14 @@
 ''(%03d means that ordinal number of each thumbnail image should be formatted using 3 digits)''
 {{{
-ffmpeg -i myvideo.avi -f image2 -r 1/60 img%03d.jpg
+ffmpeg -i myvideo.avi -f image2 -vf fps=fps=1/60 img%03d.jpg
 }}}
 
 This will create one thumbnail image every 10 minutes, named thumb0001.bmp, thumb0002.bmp, thumb0003.bmp, ...
 {{{
-ffmpeg -i test.flv -f image2 -r 1/600 thumb%04d.bmp
+ffmpeg -i test.flv -f image2 -vf fps=fps=1/600 thumb%04d.bmp
 }}}