On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 10:27:47 +0100, Michael Koch wrote: > P.S. Is it possible to show the first frame with FFplay and immediately > pause? It's not the first frame, as I suggested, but anyway: Just extract it and have a look: $ ffmpeg -ss 0 -i filetocheck.mp4 -frames:v 1 firstframe.png Moritz