How to convert video to images?

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Published on 2010-04-27T10:05:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 13:53 UTC
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How can I convert a video file to a sequence of images, for example one frame every N seconds. Can mplayer or ffmpeg do this? I have used MPlayer to grab screenshots manually but I would like to automate this for a long video.

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