MovieCaps

This shell script creates a sheet with screen captures from a movie.

Requirements

• Linux standard GNU utils (should also work under *BSD and Solaris)
• getopt (normally part of the GNU utils)
• awk/gawk/mawk
• Mplayer
• ImageMagick
• FFmpeg

Files

• make_caps.sh

Installation

1. Download make_caps.sh and put it somewhere into your $PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).
2. Make the file executable: chmod a+x make_caps.sh.

Usage

Type make_caps.sh --help to get a short description of the program.

Work cycle

make_caps.sh determines which frames are to be captured. For every frame, it

1. Captures the frame with mplayer, optionaly scaling it.
2. If requested, the frame is cropped.
3. A timestamp is added to the picture.