<p>Export it from any transcoding software to a frame by frame format such as motion JPEG or an actual image sequence.</p>

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2014-01-24T19:49:36.230Z
2014-01-24T19:49:36.230Z
AJ Henderson
<p>I usually use ffmpeg.</p>
<pre><code>mkdir video_seq
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 video_seq/video_%05d.png
</code></pre>

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2022-08-08T10:36:31.723Z
2022-08-08T10:36:31.723Z
Piroxiljin
<p><a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/" rel="nofollow">MPlayer</a> has GUI and command line options to extract JPEGs for frames. You could give it the following command line, for example, to get 1000 frames out of the specified video:</p>

<pre><code>mplayer -vo jpeg -frames 1000 my_video.mpg
</code></pre>

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2014-01-28T14:59:13.727Z
I wish to extract the reference frames and intermediate frames. How to do it ?
Srini Vas
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2014-01-27T02:49:14.050Z
2014-01-27T02:49:14.050Z
Alex
<p>I wish to export all frames of an MPEG video as individual frames.  How can I do this?</p>

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Reconstrcuting images from MPEG
Srini Vas
# Reconstrcuting images from MPEG

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-01-24)

I wish to export all frames of an MPEG video as individual frames. How can I do this?

**Tags:** video, mpeg


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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2014-01-24. Score: 1

Export it from any transcoding software to a frame by frame format such as motion JPEG or an actual image sequence.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2022-08-08. Score: 0

I usually use ffmpeg.
mkdir video_seq
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 video_seq/video_%05d.png


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### Answer by username_3 on 2014-01-27. Score: 0

MPlayer has GUI and command line options to extract JPEGs for frames. You could give it the following command line, for example, to get 1000 frames out of the specified video:
mplayer -vo jpeg -frames 1000 my_video.mpg

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: I wish to extract the reference frames and intermediate frames. How to do it ?  

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