Video frame capture?

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

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Re: Video frame capture? by idsfa (Vicar) on Jul 08, 2006 at 05:04 UTC
You want Image::Magick. `use Image::Magick; my $img = new Image::Magick; $img->Read("file.mpg[$frameno]"); my $x = $img->Write('frame.png'); warn "$x" if "$x";` [download] The intelligent reader will judge for himself. Without examining the facts fully and fairly, there is no way of knowing whether vox populi is really vox dei, or merely vox asinorum. — Cyrus H. Gordon	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Video frame capture? by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Jul 08, 2006 at 04:56 UTC
First, is your kernel setup for video4linux? See the v4l website: http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/. Second, if you need the latest v4l releases and patches: See http://dl.bytesex.org/releases/video4linux/. And there is a really interesting article by Marc Lehman( author of Video::Capture::V4l) at: http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_2/tpj0502-0008.html Note:: Is your kernel setup for video4linux?---I mentioned that because alot of the linux distros need to be adjusted. I thought that the video on my FC5 would work right out of the box, but it had problems. For instance, the AGP was turned off. I had to recompile the kernel to get all the features to work:-) Update: You might also try FFmpeg and there's a perl module FFmpeg on CPAN. FFmpeg: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ FFmpeg module: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=FFmpeg&mode=all	[reply]