[MPlayer-users] Extracting single frames from video at the command line

[Corey Hickey]

Geoff Soper wrote:
> Is it possible to extract single frames from videos for use as thumbnails
> on the command line?
> 
> If so could someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Geoff
> 

Read the manual/docs about `mplayer -vo png' and `mplayer -vo jpeg` and,
possibly, `mplayer -frames 1' (depending on the video source, the first
several frames dumped might not always be useful).

-Corey