How to extract the 1st frame and restore as an image with ffmpeg?

Question

Anyone knows the trick?

And how to install ffmpeg ? yum install mpeg only returns this:

======================================================================================== Matched: mpeg ======================================================================================== libiec61883.i386 : Streaming library for IEEE1394 libiec61883.x86_64 : Streaming library for IEEE1394 qffmpeg-devel.i386 : Development package for qffmpeg qffmpeg-devel.x86_64 : Development package for qffmpeg qffmpeg-libs.i386 : Libraries for qffmpeg qffmpeg-libs.x86_64 : Libraries for qffmpeg 

Answer 1

I've cobbled up this command line from various answers that works great for me to get the absolutely first frame out from a video. I use this to save a thumbnail screenshot for the video.

ffmpeg -i inputfile.mkv -vf "select=eq(n\,0)" -q:v 3 output_image.jpg 

Explanation:

The select filter -vf "select=eq(n\,0)" is to select only frame #0.

-q:v allows you to set the quality of the output jpeg between 1 and 31. Lower the number, higher the quality. 2 - 5 works good, I use 3.

Note: This will get you an image with the same size as the video. To get a thumbnail, you can use the scale filter to get a thumbnail to fit whatever width you need, like so:

ffmpeg -i inputfile.mkv -vf "select=eq(n\,0)" -vf scale=320:-2 -q:v 3 output_image.jpg 

The above command will give you a thumbnail jpeg that will be scaled to match width of 320, and height will be calculated to match the aspect ratio.