[mpeg2] Re: still picture grabbing

[Marcus O.C. Metzler <mocm@convergence.de>]

Rupert.Kobras writes:
 > Hello Ralph
 > 
 > > > does anybody know how to grab still pictures with the kfir-board ?
 > > > Which kfir-registers I have to set, with which values ? 
 > 
 > >What kind of still pictures do you mean? Single pictures of the 
 > >uncompressed image? Or single compressed I-Frames?
 > 
 > I mean compressed I-Frames.
 >   
 > >In both cases I don't know how this would be done.
 > >Of course you could encode an MPEG2 stream and extract single 
 > >pictures from it afterwards.
 > 
 > With tools are able to extract single pictures and covert them to jpeg ? 
 > 
 > >Ralph
 > 
 > Thanks, Rupert
 > 
 > 
You could try convert from the ImageMagick package. I haven't tried
it with mpeg->jpeg, but it works the other way around, i.e. jpeg ->
mpeg.

Marcus

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