Split video into images with ffmpeg-python

Question

As far as I understand ffmpeg-python is main package in Python to operate ffmpeg directly.

Now I want to take a video and save it's frames as separate files at some fps.

There are plenty of command line ways to do it, e.g. ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf fps=1 img/output%06d.png described here

But I want to do it in Python. Also there are solutions [1] [2] that use Python's subprocess to call ffmpeg CLI, but it looks dirty for me.

Is there any way to to make it using ffmpeg-python?

Answer 1

The following works for me:

ffmpeg
.input(url)
.filter('fps', fps='1/60')
.output('thumbs/test-%d.jpg', 
        start_number=0)
.overwrite_output()
.run(quiet=True)