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- Short: extracts JPEGs (e.g. from Quicktime movies)
- Uploader: alexander.richter@01019freenet.de (Alexander Richter)
- Author: alexander.richter@01019freenet.de (Alexander Richter)
- Type: gfx/conv
-
- ExtractJPEGs does exactly what its name says: it extracts JPEG pictures
- from a given file. For instance, some Quicktime movies consist of JPEG
- pictures.
-
-
- USAGE
- -----
- ExtractJPEGs must be launched from CLI.
- syntax:
-
- ExtractJPEGs <file>
-
- simple, eh?
-
- Example - You want to get all frames out of the "Starship Troopers"
- trailer:
-
- ExtractJPEGs strshptroopers.mov
-
-
- WHAT IT DOES
- ------------
- ExtractJPEGs hunts for JPEG pictures in the given file and writes them
- into the current directory (0.jpg, 1.jpg, 2.jpg, ...).
-
- You might use the programs freplace and fixsuffix to convert the file-
- names, e.g.:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- freplace .jpg ""
- ; "0.jpg" --> "0", "1.jpg" --> "1" etc.
-
- list #? LFORMAT "rename %N frame.%N" >t:script
- ; "0" --> "frame.0"
-
- sort t:script t:script
- ; optional
-
- execute t:script
-
- list frame.(?|??|???) LFORMAT "fixsuffix %N 4" >t:script
- ; "frame.0" --> "frame.0000"
-
- sort t:script t:script
- ; optional
-
- execute t:script
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
- copy ExtractJPEGs c:
-
-
- BUGS
- ----
- -no error handling
- -sometimes extracts non-JPEG data
-
-
- LIMITATIONS
- -----------
- -does only work on JPEG-Quicktimes, not on Cinepak-compressed ones.
-