Have you searched CPAN for video? Video::FrameGrab looks like it might do the job.

> I am looking for Linux tools for extracting the individual frames of
> an AVI movie file, and saving them to files in bitmap formats such a
+s
> JPEG. Any suggestions?

mplayer -vo jpeg file.avi
(generates 1 JPEG per frame, plays all frames)

mplayer -vo jpeg -ss 1:23:45 -frames 20 file.avi
(-sseeks to 1 hour 23 minutes 45 seconds in file.avi, generates 20 JPE
+Gs
from the subsequent frames, quits)

"man mplayer" for more stuff, like skipping to the start of a DVD
chapter.
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Zentara, My environment Perl in Windows. It is not Linux. Seems like the command are using Linux. I do need the find a way to run from Perl. Thanks,

i do believe there is an mplayer binary out there for Windows.... but I can't assure you that it will work.... but probably will.... you probably will need a different command line syntax.... google for "mplayer win32" and of course, google for the companion program, mencoder..... mencoder assembles frames back together

you also might want to see if the win32 version of ImageMagick will rip a frame from an wmv or avi.... its available for Windows too

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Yeah, you choose a frame, you extract it, you convert it to the needed size and that's it. ffmpeg should be enough for what you need, and here's a mailing list thread where this is dicussed.

Mplayer for Windows.

ffmpeg for Windows.

Good luck and most importantly , have fun ! :)

Of particular interest to you might be How_to_create_thumbnails