Extract a still from Quicktime using Perl on Linux?

hoggardb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Extract a still from Quicktime using Perl on Linux? by kvale (Monsignor) on May 04, 2006 at 22:24 UTC
I don't know of any modules that do this. There is a free Java image processing program ImageJ which has a Quicktime Still Extractor plugin that should do what you need. Happily, ImageJ can be run as an image processing toolkit applet or servlet, so should be easy to call from perl. -Mark	[reply]
Re: Extract a still from Quicktime using Perl on Linux? by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 04, 2006 at 19:29 UTC
If there's no existing solution in Perl, and you can find a non-Perl tool that does this, it might be simplest to call this tool from Perl (if it's a command line tool) or "remote control" it from Perl (if it's an interactive tool).	[reply]
Re: Extract a still from Quicktime using Perl on Linux? by hoggardb (Acolyte) on May 15, 2006 at 15:03 UTC
I ended up going with mplayer - which can be quite an adventure to compile with QuickTime support - and calling it as a command line program. There is an FFmpeg module, but I had trouble getting it to compile on my dev server.	[reply]