Sudo apt-get remove libmp3lame-dev ffmpeg So, to enable them, we need to compile it When you installed it from repository, it does not come with some encodes enabled like x264, vorbis and between others. and encoding formats like MPEG, DivX, MPEG4, etc. It provide support for most existing file formats like AVI, MPEG, OGG, etc. Today we will see a excellent software that permit us to manipulate audio and videos files.įFmpeg is a free software that permit us to record, convert and stream audio and video. But as mentioned previously, when outputting a single image -to does nothing and is ignored.Hello folks.

Your FFmpeg version on macOS is new enough that it can use -to as an input option. You are using FFmpeg 3.4.6 which is too old to use -to as an input option. It has been updated to also work as an input file (declared before -i). The -to option was previously only an output option. You can use the alias -q:v instead of -qscale:v if you want. Get a screenshot at 22 hours 15 minutes 5 seconds but output lower quality: ffmpeg -y -ss 22:15:05 -i acb.mp4 -q:v 5 -frames:v 1 abc.jpeg Same as above but gets a screenshot at 30 seconds: ffmpeg -y -ss 30 -i acb.mp4 -qscale:v 2 -frames:v 1 abc.jpeg

-ss (start time offset) with a value of 0 is doing nothing, so you can remove that too.Įxample: ffmpeg -y -i acb.mp4 -qscale:v 2 -frames:v 1 abc.jpeg.

A single image has no duration so -to is ignored anyway. You're outputting a single frame so you don't need to declare a duration stop time with -to.

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