Comments on: ffmpeg – capture screenshot from a video file

By: shixinpeng

shixinpeng — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:00:37 +0000

Hi,I have a question!
There is a TS file named love.ts(about 1GB) on my SUSE machine, and I use this command to take a snapshot:
./ffmpeg -ss 00:00:18 -vframes 1 -i /home/sxp/love.ts -y -f image2 -s 900×900 sxp.jpg

So it takes a long long time!
But there is also a TS file named gdxw.ts (about 17MB), and I use the same command to take a snapshot. It takes a very short time.

What shall I do?

By: ffmpeg nas

ffmpeg nas — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:20:10 +0000

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By: huangyi

huangyi — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:14:47 +0000

Hi, Thank you for suggestion

I try ‘-ss 00:00:03.488′ but it doesn’t work

And I changed the -t parameter from 0.001 to 0.08 and it can capture picture now. I find the 0.08 from ffmpeg output “frame=1 fps=0 q=0.0 Lsize=-0kB time=0.08 bitrate=-2.1kbits/s video:21kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead -100.100205%”
Do you know the usage of -t parameters when captures image from video and how I input the correct parameter.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:53:31 +0000

huangyi,

Try ‘-ss 00:00:03.488′ instead

By: huangyi

huangyi — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:35:18 +0000

Hi, I have a question.
I want to capture the screenshot at 3.488 second for example
But it does not output screenshot by the above command
In my test, -ss 1 1.5 2 2.5 … works fine and others not
Can you explain why it happens and how can I capture screenshot at x.xxx time

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:02:23 +0000

Very Grand!!!

By: dan

dan — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:32:52 +0000

I’m using this, and is way more efficient:
ffmpeg -ss 00:20:00 -vframes 1 -i file.avi -y -f image2 out.png

I think the ss needs to go before the input so it does a fast skip.

By: Tombe

Tombe — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:33:53 +0000

Hello,

Your code does the trick. Thanks. Does ffmpeg allows the user to take a snapshot of a movie directly by accessing a DVD disc or a video_ts folder in a similar way? If yes, how, please?

By: rick

rick — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:05:50 +0000

Hi Snowcore,

“-sameq” means use the same quality of the source video.

I read the long “man ffmpeg”, I couldn’t find where to adjust the quality other than just “-sameq”

By: Snowcore

Snowcore — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:27:12 +0000

Wow, thanks!
How can I control the quality of the screenshot image?