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Rick K.
Rick K.

Reputation: 85

How to write ffmpeg command "-ss" in Python

I have this command in ffmpeg that I want to write in Python,

ffmpeg -ss 00:12:14 -i video.mp4 -vframes 1 output.png

Is it possible to write this in Python?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1647

Answers (2)

Arkadiy Kukarkin
Arkadiy Kukarkin

Reputation: 2293

using the python bindings, you'd write it like this:

ffmpeg.input('video.mp4', vframes=1, ss=('00:12:14')).output('output.png').run()

(not 100% sure if the ss filter takes the time params like this, if that doesn't work use count of seconds instead)

Upvotes: 1

ewokx
ewokx

Reputation: 2425

Kinda depends on what you mean by 'write this in Python'.

Using the subprocess module:

import subprocess

cmd = ['ffmpeg', '-ss', '00:12:14', '-i', 'video.mp4', '-vframes', '1', 'output.png']

cmdproc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

while True:
    line = cmdproc.stdout.readline()
    if not line:
        break

(or something similar, since there's check_output(), call()...)

If you mean by a 'native' way of doing that, you can try out ffmpeg-python [1], though I know nothing about that.

[1] - https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python

Upvotes: 1

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