DUMPMPEG(1)

NAME
dumpmpeg - A program to dump frames from an MPEG movie.

SYNOPSIS
dumpmpeg [options] file

DESCRIPTION
dumpmpeg is a program that allows you to dump video frames from MPEG movie files. It uses the SDL MPEG Player Library to accomplish this and thus requires an open X-Window. Since it uses the SMPEG library, it can dump frames from format it supports, which currently is MPEG-1 video files.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Show short usage information

--dump N
    Only dump every Nth frame. Default behavior is to dump every frame.

--prefix N
    The file prefix of saved frames. The frame number and .bmp will be appended to this to form the file name. Default prefix is "framedump_".

-s N, --start N
    Skip N frames before starting to dump.

-q, --quiet
    Only print error messages during execution.

-v, --version
    Print version information.

AUTHORS
dumpmpeg is written by David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org>. It is based on plaympeg from the SDL MPEG Player Library, which was written by Karl Robillard and Sam Lantinga of Loki Entertainment Software.

RELATED SITES

dumpmpeg homepage at Soureforge:
    http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dumpmpeg/

SMPEG home page at:
    http://www.lokigames.com/development/smpeg.php3

SDL home page at:
    http://www.libsdl.org/

SEE ALSO
plaympeg(1), gtv(1)

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 David Hedbor

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.