Research Question on Screenshots

[ananth]

I didn't know where to post it, so I am posting it here. I apologize if this has been answered in one of the faq's, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

I am doing a research project where I need to capture frames from a 10 second avi movie. I need it to spit out 11 screenshots at 1 second interval. Is there a program that can automate this process? We have approximately 60 videos, so going through each seems to be a nightmare. Appreciate any assistance. Thanks.
- ananth

[Video Dude]

You could track down an old copy of TMPGEnc 2.5.

Load the avi, set the output resolution, set the fps to 1 frame per second. Then select the output to "Sequence BMP/PPM/TGA/JPG file".

TMPGEnc has batch processing.




EDIT: VLC, MPC, and FFDShow (Grab setting) can also do screenshots.

[dat720]

mplayer can do a series of scrrenshots like that aswell

[mel2000]

Free Video to JPG Converter can do snapshots in series.
OS: Win 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/guides/dvd/make-video-snapshots.htm

[Sagekilla]

Avisynth can do this too ;) Load up each image, play it back in WMP / MPC / VDM / etc

Avisource("MyFile.avi")
fps = int(FrameRate())
ConditionalFilter(last,ImageWriter("image_%4d"), last, "current_frame", "%", string(fps))
Crop(0,0,16,16) # faster processing