[MPlayer-users] Generate jpeg preview of mpeg clip

[Joonas Koivunen]

On Sunday 20 April 2003 16:42, mpl at techmx.com wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello
>
> Guys ive been crawlin google for 2 days no luck.
> I have following problem: I need to create jpeg thumbnail of
> mpeg movie clip, someone told that it was possible to do with mencoder.
>
> Any help would be very apriciated.
sorry, i'm too busy watching bob episodes to cut this.

[rzei at trusty rzei]$ mplayer -vo help
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices  (Family: 6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

Reading config file /usr/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /home/rzei/.mplayer/config
Available video output drivers:
        xv      X11/Xv
        x11     X11 ( XImage/Shm )
        gl      X11 (OpenGL)
        gl2     X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
        dga     DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
        sdl     SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
        fbdev   Framebuffer Device
        png     PNG file
        jpeg    JPEG file
	^^^^^^^^
        null    Null video output
        pgm     PGM file
        md5     MD5 sum
        mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
        yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools (to "stream.yuv")
        vesa    VESA VBE 2.0 video output
        xvidix  X11 (VIDIX)

[rzei at trusty rzei]$

there are ^^^^^^^ sings to guide you, incase you miss'em. ofc it depends on 
your configuration wheter you have such video out.

-rzei