Video Processing

[metsfan666]

I am trying to break apart videos and get some of the frames that make up an image. I tried the example

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convert -quiet -delay 1 plane.avi plane.gif

I replaced plane.avi with a different video I had. I got no output so I removed -quiet and got this error "convert: Not enough pixel data" A different avi gave this error "convert: AVI chunk indx not yet supported"

What do these errors mean? Does this only work on certain avis?

Is there any way to parse a flash video file, .flv?

Thanks

[anthony]

AVI is a very complex video format that contains a huge number of different codecs. IM can not handle all these codecs.

It is suggested you install and use a specialized video handling tool like mencode (with the full codec collection) to separate out the desired frames.