PyAV is a Pythonic binding for FFmpeg or Libav. We aim to provide all of the power and control of the underlying library, but manage the gritty details as much as possible.
Currently we provide the basics of:
- :class:`containers <.Container>`
- devices (by specifying a format)
- audio/video/subtitle :class:`streams <.Stream>`
- :class:`packets <.Packet>`
- audio/video :class:`frames <.Frame>`
- :class:`data planes <.Plane>`
- :class:`subtitles <.Subtitle>`
- and a few more utilities.
import av
container = av.open('/path/to/video.mp4')
for frame in container.decode(video=0):
frame.to_image().save('/path/to/frame-%04d.jpg' % frame.index)
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