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Extracting every frame from video file as image in OS X

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Mar 15, 202626691 views
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Problem

What I want to do is extract every frame of a video file and output the images. I tried using VLC's commands through terminal, however it seems to be skipping frames, even though I turned off "skip frames." I guess my MacBook Pro i7 is too slow. It seems weird that I can't play a video file without…

Error Output

/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC /Users/name/Downloads/complete/video.mkv --video-filter=scene --scene-prefix=movie --scene-ratio=1 --scene-p…

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I'd do it with FFmpeg, which you can get through Homebrew, or alternatively ffmpegX. In the first case, install Homebrew and then run . This will require Xcode and building from source, which might be a bit of an overhead for your simple requirement…

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