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I have a video file, I would like to convert all the frames in the video (every single one) to an image file. How do I do that?

I tried using VLC for this purpose, but it bugged out on me, sadly.

Edit: I was asked about the video file: it's an mp4 file recorded from a Samsung Galaxy S5.

The codec is: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1) Decoded format: Planar 4:2:0

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  • what type of video file?
    – wisbucky
    May 4, 2015 at 22:49
  • It's a mobile phone video taken from a nexus 4. But really that's not that important, because there are tons of tools for converting one kind of video file into another.
    – Ne Mo
    May 4, 2015 at 22:58
  • Could you add information about what format the video is in (m4v, mov, etc) and what operating system this tool needs to run on?
    – Undo
    May 20, 2015 at 18:57

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I'd recommend

ffmpeg

for this (free, open source, cross-platform).

Example:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -qscale:v 2 output_%03d.jpg

Will create one output_<framenumber>.jpg JPEG image (with quality 2) for every frame in input.mp4.

See How do I encode movie to single pictures? for more details.

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Screenshot Of Free Video To JPG Converter Tool From Free Studio

Free Studio features a tool called Free Video To JPG Converter (which you can alternatively download as a stand-alone tool). This tool can create a sequence of JPEGs from videos in various formats. Free Studio is compatible with Windows XP (SP3 required), Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.

To Use Free Video To JPG Converter just browse for (or drag-and-drop) a video file, enter your settings (eg: extract every frame), choose where to save, and click the convert button.

Be aware that this program, like all programs made by this company (DVDVideoSoft) like to call home.

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Free Video to JPG Converter should do the job

Main window

  1. Select the video(s) which you want to convert - you can choose as many as you want. Supported file formats:
    Supported file formats

  2. Choose whether you want to... (this setting applies to all videos in the queue, you can't specify this per video - unless you convert every video one-by-one)

    • extract every x frames
    • extract a frame every x seconds
    • extract a total of x frames from the video(s)
    • extract every frame
  3. Select the output directory
  4. Click "Convert"

The files will be saved in the .jpg format (as the name of the program suggests).

Here's a screenshot of the settings: Settings

This program is also included in the Free Studio package (in the "Convert" category) by the same manufacturer (DVDVideoSoft). If you want a set of multimedia-programs, I'd advise you to install Free Studio. Otherwise, if you only need to convert video's to images, just install Free Video to JPG Converter.

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  • Could the person who downvoted my answer - for a still unknown reason - please elaborate why (s)he downvoted (the old version of my) answer, and reconsider the downvote?
    – nidunc
    May 18, 2015 at 11:53

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