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Asked: June 5, 20262026-06-05T01:07:12+00:00 2026-06-05T01:07:12+00:00

This is for you FFMPEG gurus! I have video that I take a screenshot

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This is for you FFMPEG gurus!

I have video that I take a screenshot image of. This works fine:

ffmpeg -i sourceMovie.mp4 -ss 0 -vframes 1 destImage.jpg

But I was hoping to also scale down the image to 150 px wide, in one fell swoop. Apparently, I should add

scale=150:-1

But where and how do I insert that in the command?

I have tried everything; nothing works …

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    2026-06-05T01:07:13+00:00Added an answer on June 5, 2026 at 1:07 am

    scale is a VideoFilter, so you use “-vf”:

    ffmpeg -i sourceMovie.mp4 -ss 0 -vframes 1 -vf "scale=150:-1" destImage.jpg
    
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