Can VLC convert Video to Series of still-frames?

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Can VLC convert Video to Series of still-frames?

Postby steve333 » 29 Nov 2011 15:25

Is there a way for VLC to convert a (short) piece of video into a series of still frame-dumps?

I know VLC can do a snapshot, but this method would be tedious, and I would like to dump each source frame, not some arbitrary display frames.

I don't mind what the output format is so long as it retains as much of the source video quality as possible.
Ideally I'd like to specify the start and the end points (times) of the sequence so as to avoid having to edit the source.

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Re: Can VLC convert Video to Series of still-frames?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 30 Nov 2011 13:19

YEs, use the scene filter.
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Re: Can VLC convert Video to Series of still-frames?

Postby steve333 » 11 Dec 2011 18:22

Thank you for your reply.

I've no idea what the filter does, but I'll play with it and see what happens!


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