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Take screenshots of movie with Movie Thumbnailer

February 7th, 2008 · Posted by Toor · 4 Comments

Movie Thumbnailer is a nifty Bash script. With Movie Thumbnailer, you can take screenshots of a movie.

Usage

  1. Download Movie Thumbnailer at CLI-Apps.org.
  2. Movie Thumbnailer depends on MPlayer and ImageMagick, install them using this command:
    sudo apt-get install mplayer imagemagick
  3. Make the file executable:
    chmod +x shot.sh
  4. Usage sample:
    ./shot.sh -n 20 -r 35% ~/path/to/film.avi

    • -n - specify the number of screenshots to take
    • -r - change the size of the output image

    For more usage, run ./shot.sh -h.

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