Lister: Save frame from video
Posted: 2022-05-19, 09:55 UTC
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).
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).