[MPlayer-users] Faster JPEG frame extraction?

[compn]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 07:55:52PM -0500, Hugo González Monteverde wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I can extract frames from an AVI with:
> 
> mplayer -ao null -vo jpeg -frames 1000 myfile.avi
> 
> but it has to play the file at its own pace to be able to extract them. 
> As I'm doing this in batch, I'm trying to speed this up and have it be 
> done as faster as possible (according to the capacities of my box)
> 
> I've looked into the docs, but have not been able to figure out how to 
> do it with either mplayer or mencoder. I'm also looking into the avi 
> utility transcode for this, but no luck so far.
> 
> Any ideas?

mplayer -nosound -vo jpeg -frames 1000 file.avi

try adding -speed 100 or -fps 100 as well...