[MPlayer-users] mencoder output png?

[Corey Hickey]

Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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.   


Actually, you use mplayer for this, and not mencoder. Thus, your command
for making an animated thumbnail would be something like this:
mplayer file.avi -vo gif89a -vop scale=100:100 -frames 240

-vo jpeg works the same way, except that it fills your working directory
with zillions of files. :)

-Corey