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From: D Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com>
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Subject: Re: Converting AVI and MPEG Into Still Images
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On Tue, 13 May 2008 at 13:12 -0600, perrin@apotheon.com confabulated:

> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 06:31:53PM +0000, D Hill wrote:
>>
>> Is there anything in the ports tree I can use to convert AVI and/or MPEG
>> videos into individual frames as jpg or a different still graphic format?
>
> MPlayer should be able to do that.  By the way, AVI is a container
> format, not a codec, and most AVIs use MPEG (in my experience) for video
> codec.

Thanks for the info. I had not realized MPlayer does that. Josh Tolbert 
also made the same suggestion. I shall pursue figuring out how it's done.