[oclug] create a thumbnail from avi/mpeg

[Vic Gedris]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:02:19PM -0500, Allan McIntosh wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Can anyone suggest a comand line tool that would allow me to grab a single
> frame from an avi and save it to jpg?
> 
> mencoder -jpeg works but it will convert the entire file unless you
> intervene with ^C.

Hey Al,

If you're trying to do this with the .AVIs that you get from your
camera, an easy way to do it is just grab it right from the camera
itself with gphoto2.

-Vic

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