Ffmpeg Frames Images

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Frame extraction and image I/O with ffmpeg: single stills, periodic frame dumps, contact sheets, sprite sheets for scrubbers, high-quality GIFs, and building video back from an image sequence.

Quick start

• Single screenshot at a timestamp → Step 1 (screenshot) + Step 2
• Dump N frames per second to PNG/JPG → Step 1 (sequence) + Step 2
• Contact sheet / thumbnail grid → Step 1 (sheet) + Step 2
• Sprite sheet for HLS scrubber → Step 1 (sprite) + Step 2
• High-quality GIF from video → Step 1 (gif) + Step 2 (two-pass)
• Build video from PNG/JPG sequence → Step 1 (images-to-video) + Step 2

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