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After some serious searching I managed to find a solution with vlc, and after that an even better solution using ffmpeg. Hereby posting for others to use. This method to take a single snapshot with vlc, and then exit: prefix=`date +"img-%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S-"` cvlc rtsp://un:pw@ip:10554/tcp/a...

Thanks!

Not surprised, really. I did try to search, but couldn't come up with working search terms to find those threads... But lack of response seems to show it can't be done...

Hi, I'm looking for a way to take still images from a video stream on the command line, not capture the actual stream but just occasional frames. Specifically: I have a web cam, which I want to use to create a time lapse video of plants growing, and in order to do this I want to take a photo every 5...