[MPlayer-users] Capturing jpg frames from video

[RC]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:04:36 +0000
João Costa <joaocosta at zonalivre.org> wrote:

> mplayer -frames 1 -ss 30 -vo jpeg -nosound video.wmv
> 
> This works for most videos, but not for all, once in a while i find a
> video for which the output jpg file is completely black.

Use something like "-frames 5" and you'll figure out the problem
yourself...

With -ss, mplayer displays the first frame (can be black) then a damaged
frame or two, before getting a proper frame.