[FFmpeg-user] Treating video frame-based instead of time-based

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Am 22.01.2019 um 09:49 schrieb Wolfgang Hugemann <auto at hugemann.de>:

>> I may misunderstand but FFmpeg treats all video as frame-based.
> 
> Sorry, I posed the question wrong. I meant that I would like to use a
> frame-count-based scale instead of a time-based scale, in the way that a
> genuine frame server like AVIsynth does.
> 
>>> * Could I (easily) extract every nth frame from a video (in order to
>>> dump the result as JPEGs)?
>> See the select or the fps filter or use a low output frame rate (which
>> forces frame drops).
> 
> I fear that this would provoke rounding errors,

Of course not.


> especially with NTSC's
> 29,97 fps. To the contrast, AVIsynth's "SelectEvery(5)" is bullet-proof:
> It takes every 5th frame (in presentation order), no matter what.
> 
> ...
> 
> I take from your answer that this approach is just impossible with
> FFmpeg at the moment.

LOL

Carl Eugen