Lister: Save frame from video

[funkymonk]

Since the integrated video player supports framewise stepping, it would be great to have an option to save the current still image to a file.
My suggestion is to put a corresponding function into the context menu: "Save frame to file '<filename>'".
The <filename> should be autogenerated as <videofilename_without_extension>_<framenumber>.jpg

Even better, the <framenumber> should be 0-padded, so the character length of the value matches the required length for the last frame.

Assuming we are at frame 200 (out of 20.000 frames) of a file video.mpg.
Then, the frame would be saved to "video_00200.jpg"

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Of course, a second option "Save frame to file..." would also be nice, that asks for a file name first (with the autogenerated filename as a preset suggestion).

[Fla$her]

Support++

[funkymonk]

Is there maybe any opinion on this feature request from the author or the community?
(I once more had to extract single frames from several videos and would highly appreciate such a function. Others as well?)

[ghisler(Author)]

It would indeed be nice to have, but when I checked this when getting the suggestion I couldn't find any DirectX functions to actually get a frame from a video. I don't know how other players do this, maybe they insert an extra custom made filter to the filter graph to access the video data. But even then it may be in a strange format like YUV not suited for saving.

[funkymonk]

Ok. Anyway, many thanks for taking the time to check the libraries for such a feature (as well as for video rotation in another suggestion). Writing a filter for it would probably require too much effort -- after all, TC is a file manager (with great additional features) and not a video player...

Maybe in the future...

[Fla$her]

2ghisler(Author)
What about this request? Can you handle it?

[ghisler(Author)]

Sorry, I didn't find a good way to integrate this option into the user interface.

[vdijken]

I have Gadwin PrintScreen installed. One push on the PrintScrn button and you have your screen shot.

[Fla$her]

It would indeed be nice to have, but ...

Why not use ffmpeg for this? In the Lister section, there will be a key with the ffmpeg path. First it is checked, then the one in %PATH%, so that the desired option appears in the menu.
When executed, the following command will run hidden:

ffmpeg.exe -loglevel -8 -i "<path_to_video_file>" -vf "select=eq(n\,<frame number>)" -vcodec mjpeg -q:v 1 -vframes 1 "<base_filename>_frame-<frame number>.jpg"