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Extract A Single Frame From A Video With ffmpeg

April 2023
ffmpeg hide_banner -loglevel panic \
-ss 2.23 -i input.mp4 -frames:v 1 \
-y output.jpg

Notes

  • -hide_banner and -loglevel panic turn off the output unless something goes wrong. Basically they put ffmpeg into quite mode
  • -ss is for start second. It's a floating point/decimal number for where to extract the frame from
  • -i input.mp4 identifies the input file
  • -frames:v 1 limits the extraction to a single frame
  • -y is used to overwrite the output file if it already exists. (Otherwise ffmpeg asks if you want to overwrite every time it's run)
  • output.jpg is the output file
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