I generally stay away from "asking for help" unless I need it. And do not recommend people doing it.
It is good to get help once in a while from others but if we rely too much on it instead of using our intellect and our personal experience, then it hurts our confidence and ability and of course knowledge in the long run.... Thanks. -Girish On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Venkatraman S <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> ffmpeg is also a nice tool. It is usually more buggy when compared to >> mencoder in the sense that it does not handle standards gracefully and >> the quality of audio is usually poor. >> >> I dunno about its ability to grab frames. It is pretty good at capturing >> video >> from X11. >> >> Your mileage may vary. There are no canned answers to such questions. >> >> Which in other words means "I dunno." ;) >> >> > No probs. I got this response from the django group (posting just for > gyaan). > I actually liked the way how easy it is to get a frame from a video in 4 > lines! > > ----------------------------------------------------8<------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > I would recommend using ffmpeg over mplayer for this purpose. ffmpeg > actually has releases, where as there hasn't been a release of mplayer > for over 3 years - the mplayer devs got frustrated at packaging it, > and now recommend users to use tip of svn. > > Also, mplayer is based on the same libraries as ffmpeg, so you get the > same end results. > > Oooh, theres also a python wrapper around ffmpeg, and their example on > their frontpage does precisely what you asked for: > > http://code.google.com/p/pyffmpeg/ > > ----------------------------------------------------8<------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
