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I'm trying this command in Fedora 8 with version 0.8.7:

vlc -vvv -V image --image-out-prefix=test --image-out-ratio=60 --image-out-width=320 --image-out-height=240 part1.mp4

result:
VLC media player 0.8.7 Janus
[00000001] main private debug: checking builtin modules
[00000001] main private debug: checking plugin modules
[00000001] main private debug: loading plugins cache file /root/.vlc/cache/plugins-04041e.dat
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc'
[00000001] main private debug: module bank initialized, found 246 modules
[00000001] main private warning: Unable to get HAL device properties
[00000001] main private debug: opening config file /root/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main private warning: config file /root/.vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet
vlc: unknown option or missing mandatory argument `--image-out-width=320'
Try `vlc --help' for more information.

Any idea what the 'mandatory argument I'm missing is? If I drop the width and height constraints, it works just fine but I need the output to be resized.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

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VLC 0.8.7 was never released. Regardless though, IIRC, the options for snapshot/image resizing were not added until 0.9.x.

Your commandline works fine on Debian sid (VLC 0.9.8a). Try VLC 0.9.8a (the latest stable version) or update VLC to a newer (0.9.x) version.

For example the Fedora 10 (and 9 I think) both have VLC 0.9.8a in the updates section of their repository (assuming you are using rpmfusion.org):
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fed ... w/vlc.html

Arite.

VLC 0.8.7 was never released. Regardless though, IIRC, the options for snapshot/image resizing were not added until 0.9.x.

Your commandline works fine on Debian sid (VLC 0.9.8a). Try VLC 0.9.8a (the latest stable version) or update VLC to a newer (0.9.x) version.

For example the Fedora 10 (and 9 I think) both have VLC 0.9.8a in the updates section of their repository (assuming you are using rpmfusion.org):
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fed ... w/vlc.html

Arite.

Thanks for the info!

VLC 0.8.7 is the version I got by doing a yum install vlc on Fedora 8.

I tried to download and build the latest version of VLC from source and I couldn't get it to build on Fedora 8. Sounds like the simplest plan will be to upgrade to fedora 9 or 10 then do an update on vlc.