Key Frame Extraction From Video

Question

I need Need To extract Key Frames from Video/Stream.So is there any standard implementation. I am using open CV. (Currently i am extracting frames each second which is slower i need to improve performance.) So if any one has optimized implementation please reply in here.

Answer 1

Using ffmpeg you can extract all key frames using the following code:

ffmpeg -vf select="eq(pict_type\,PICT_TYPE_I)" -i yourvideo.mp4 -vsync 2 -s 160x90 -f image2 thumbnails-%02d.jpeg

What follows -vf in a ffmpeg command line is a Filtergraph description. The select filter selects frames to pass in output. The constant of the filter is “pict_type” and the value “ PICT_TYPE_I”. So ffmpeg is only passing key frames to the output.

-vsync 2 prevents ffmpeg to generate more than one copy for each key frame.

-f image2 writes video frames to image files. The output filenames are specified by a pattern, which can be used to produce sequentially numbered series of files. The pattern may contain the string "%d" or "%0Nd".

Reference: http://www.videoproductionslondon.com/blog/scene-change-detection-during-encoding-key-frame-extraction-code