How to extract frames(or a perticular frame) from a YUV video using ffmpeg

Question

Here is the code for extracting frames from a MP4 video. ffmpeg -i above_marathon_250.mp4 images%03d.bmp But the same code does not work for YUV format video. Does anyone knows how it is possible to extract frame(s) from YUVformat video?

Answer 1

It's not working because yuv files have no header, so ffmpeg doesn't know what size/pixfmt the file is. You need to specify resolution and pixmt manually:

ffmpeg -video_size 1920x1080 -r 25 -pixel_format yuv422p -i file.yuv output-%d.png

And then adjust size/pixfmt to match your particular video.

[edit] I'd also suggest to post such questions on superuser in the future, this has nothing to do with programming.