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I need to extract stills from video files. Currently I am using ffmpeg, but I am looking for a simpler tool and for a tool that my collegues can just install. No need to compile it from a svn checkout.
Any hints? A python interface would be nice.
Your requirements ‘cli tool’ and ‘python interface’ aren’t entirely compatible. Which do you want?
The following media libraries all have Python bindings: GStreamer, libVLC (pyvlc provides w32 binaries), Xine (via Pyxine). I’m pretty sure none of them will be easier than using the ffmpeg or mplayer command-line tools, though.
Regarding ffmpeg: why would more than one person need to compile from a svn checkout (or tarball, as they’ve recently had their 0.5 release)? Grab or make a binary package and have everybody use it.