[MPlayer-users] Re: Stills and sound from DSC MPEGs

[Johan Vromans]

Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl> writes:

> 1. My digital camera (Sony DSC V1) can produce short MPEG movies. For
>    cataloging, I'd like to extract a still image from the movie, for
>    example, the first image. I'm sure mplayer/mencoder can do this,
>    but I haven't been able to find out how.

Surprising, it's not mencoder but mplayer that does the trick:

  mplayer -really-quiet -nosound -frames 1 -vo jpeg file.mpg

This produces a file 00000001.jpg with the desired content.

-- Johan