Extract image from video?

**carl4926** · February 26th, 2013

What would be a good way to pull good quality images from a video?

**shantiq** · February 26th, 2013

vlc

then tools/preferences/hotkeys/set a hotkey for Take Video Snapshot

then tools/preferences/video and set directory for snapshots

then use hotkey while viewing [i use F2] if you have a wireless keyboard you can do this comfortably while viewing video; and not even need to stop

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and/or

MPlayer comes with a very nice and easy to use video filter that allows taking single or multiple screenshots. The syntax is simple: [all formats]

Code:

mplayer -vf screenshot my_file.mp4

Simply pressing the 's' key takes a single screenshot in png format in the working directory.

but shift+S will take all frames/pictures until you hit ctrl+C

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XBMC

set folder settings/system/Debugging/screenshot folder

then hit \ to get fullscreen

and use PrtScn to get single shots

**carl4926** · February 26th, 2013

Thanks

I had used full screen playback in smplayer > space to pause where I want the capture > then PrtSc

I'll try those other options to see if the quality differs

**shantiq** · February 26th, 2013

all of these take a picture as is

so if 640x480 it takes that ; if 1920x1080 that and so on

the quality of pic has to do with the definition of the vid

so they are all the same

the mplayer trick "shift+S" is good if you want every frame ; you can even time it and then plough through the lot anyway as you say av a try

**sudodus** · February 26th, 2013

Thanks for sharing

**carl4926** · February 26th, 2013

Great tips, thanks !

**andrew.46** · March 9th, 2013

The MPlayer command can be extended for those who like playing with such things, have a look at this wiki page:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MP...ng_screenshots