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/

COPYRIGHT

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.