Extracting image from video at a given time using OpenCV

Question

My task is to make a utility that can take a video and time in seconds.

The utility should write out jpeg images from the video with the given input.

E.g. let th

Answer 1

why don't you just do, what @micka proposed ?

import cv2

vidcap = cv2.VideoCapture('d:/video/keep/Le Sang Des Betes.mp4')
vidcap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_POS_MSEC,20000)      # just cue to 20 sec. position
success,image = vidcap.read()
if success:
    cv2.imwrite("frame20sec.jpg", image)     # save frame as JPEG file
    cv2.imshow("20sec",image)
    cv2.waitKey()