FFMPEG - First frame of a video

[elementaluk]

Hey does anyone know how to convert the first frame of a video into an image using FFMPEG (command line).

I keep getting crap looking images with:

ffmpeg -i test.mpg -y -vframes 1 -an -sameq -f gif test.gif

It works but looks really bad, does anyone know how to get ffmpeg to spit out a decent image?

[bradgrafelman]

I've never heard of 'ffmpeg' before, but taking a wild guess, I'd say your problem is that you're using a GIF image type.

Aren't GIF's usually set at 256 colors? Can you try a higher quality, like JPEG, BMP, PNG, etc.?