Posted by Andy Jeffries on 08/17/06 13:30

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:15:29 -0700, ImOk wrote:
>> The easiest way will be to call out to mplayer to do it. You'll have to
>> do it twice, once to get the length of the movie (and then optionally a
>> second time if you don't want the first frame).
>>
>> mplayer -identify -ss 20:00 -vo jpeg -ao null -frames 1 video.avi
>
> Sorry for my ignorance, is mplayer a Linux utility or Windows?

Primarily Linux, but there's a Windows version too:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Don't forget to get the codecs pack if you want to use WMV/MOV etc.

Cheers,


Andy

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