Extract frame from wmv

[Martin]

Tim Golden wrote:
> Martin wrote:
>> I need to extract a frame from a wmv file and save it as a jpg. In 
>> fact I need to extract a frame from each one of a collection of 
>> several thousand wmv files, but that's beside the point.
>>
>> I've actually written a script that does exactly this using the pyglet 
>> module. But while it works fine on my local machine running Python 
>> 2.5, my host is only on 2.4.3. They've installed pyglet for me, but it 
>> won't run without ctype, and they don't suport it.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest an alternative way to achieve this using a module 
>> that will run on a standard 2.4.3 installation?
> 
> Pretty sure pymedia can do this kind of thing, possibly
> with a bit of work.
> 
> http://pymedia.org/tut/src/dump_video.py.html
> 
> I used it recentlyish to do the reverse: combine a series
> of still shots into a time-lapse movie.
> 
> Alternatively, you might be able to commandline control
> mencoder or ffmpeg itself to do this. Not sure, but there
> must be *something* among those millions of command-line
> options!
> 
> TJG
> 

Hi Tim,

I've looked at Pymedia but I have to admit I couldn't work it out.

Commandline might be good, but I'm really hoping someone can point me in 
the right direction, as this is not my area of expertise.

Thanks,

Martin