Extract frame from wmv

[Martin]

Tim Golden wrote:
> Martin wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> In message <mailman.3501.1225883844.3487.python-list at python.org>, Tim 
>>> Golden
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alternatively, you might be able to commandline control
>>>> mencoder or ffmpeg itself to do this. Not sure, but there
>>>> must be *something* among those millions of command-line
>>>> options!
>>>
>>> FFmpeg--yes!
>>
>> Unfortunately it looks like I have the same problem as I do with 
>> pyglet - it's not support by my host.
>>
>> It looks like I might have to process the files locally and then 
>> upload them. Painful.
>>
>> Unless anyone else has any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Well, since as far as I can see your host won't let you
> install anything which isn't there already, you're down to
> implementing a Python-only module to read a frame from a
> .wmv. Which is, I would suggest, a not inconsiderable task.
> 
> Perhaps pre-filtering is the best solution after all.
> 
> TJG

Thanks Lawrence and Tim,

The irony is that I already have a Python only solution - it just 
requires 2.5!

I've actually worked out a way to extract and compress just the 
thumbnails from my local server and upload them without having to 
re-upload the video files (which took days) so I'm happy.

Thanks for the suggestions,

Martin