Batch movie frame extractor?

Question

Can anyone suggest a windows applications that will extract x amount of frames from a list of movies that are imported into it. It needs to operate in batch mode. Image Grabber II .net would be perfect... but it wont work under Vista or Windows 7 (64bit) for me.... so Im looking for an alternative.

Answer 1

For a GUI approach, there is Video to JPG Converter:

For a command line approach, you can use FFmpeg:

ffmpeg -i file.avi -y -ss 5 -an -sameq -f image2 -r 1/5 filename%03d.jpg

this should create output files of frames every 5 seconds with a name like filename0001.jpg, filename0002.jpg, etc. You can find information on all available switches in the FFmpeg Documentation. To process multiple files, you can use *.avi as input for example.