[MPlayer-users] mencoder output png?

[Tomoki Taniguchi]

ok I see how you would play a gif98 file.  So here is my question.  I have 
seen how you would re-encode a video file using mencode and the "-ovc  lavc" 
and setting the vcodec value.  But I didn't see an "-ovc " option for gif98.  
If it is possible to convert a video to a animated gif98 format what are the 
options for mencoder.   

If it isn't possible then how do I capture a random frame from a video and 
output it as jpg.

TIA,
Tomoki


On Thursday 17 October 2002 06:38 pm, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
> > Here is what I want to try to do.
> > take a video file (avi, mpeg, whatever) and output it as animated gif
> > thumbnail.
> > I know that animated gif isn't one of the supported formats, but as far
> > as I
>
> why? it is. -vo gif89
>
> > can determine mpng ( a format similar to animated gifs??? ) is a
> > supported format.
>
> mpng is internal mplayer format, other players won't handle it
>
> > I can find examples of encoding mpng files from multiple image files
> > (jpg,png).  Is it even possible to create a mpng from a video file?
>
> yes
>
>
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team