wiki: Create a thumbnail image every X seconds of the video +0 Start Page Index History -vframes option Output a single frame from the video into an image file: ffmpeg -i input.flv -ss 00:00:14.435 -vframes 1 out.png This example will seek to the position of 0h:0m:14sec:435msec and output one frame ( -vframes 1 ) from that position into a PNG file. fps video filter Output one image every second, named out1.png , out2.png , out3.png , etc. ffmpeg -i input.flv -vf fps=1 out%d.png Output one image every minute, named img001.jpg , img002.jpg , img003.jpg , etc. The %03d dictates that the ordinal number of each output image will be formatted using 3 digits. ffmpeg -i myvideo.avi -vf fps=1/60 img%03d.jpg Output one image every ten minutes: ffmpeg -i test.flv -vf fps=1/600 thumb%04d.bmp select video filter Output one image for every I-frame: ffmpeg -i input.flv -vf "select='eq(pi...