Extract frame from wmv

[Tim Golden]

Martin wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> In message <mailman.3501.1225883844.3487.python-list at python.org>, Tim 
>> Golden
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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!
>>
>> FFmpeg--yes!
> 
> Unfortunately it looks like I have the same problem as I do with pyglet 
> - it's not support by my host.
> 
> It looks like I might have to process the files locally and then upload 
> them. Painful.
> 
> Unless anyone else has any suggestions?


Well, since as far as I can see your host won't let you
install anything which isn't there already, you're down to
implementing a Python-only module to read a frame from a
.wmv. Which is, I would suggest, a not inconsiderable task.

Perhaps pre-filtering is the best solution after all.

TJG