Feature request for cli - "save frame"

[abcnorio]

Hello,

it would be great to add the feature "save frame" from the GUI to the cli version so it can be used there as well. The cli version works pretty with scripts, but if one needs only images and not videos one has to use a self-made workaround via ffmpeg, create a very short video in the RAM/ tmpfs, and extract a frame from this video and save it a a png, and delete the video.

It would be easier to have a switch in the cli version like

ntsc-rs-cli -i <input file> -o <output file> -p <preset file> -f

whereas -f is a switch (T/F) that overwrites internally the path/ way to output to video in favor of output to image (png, lossless).

That would speed up scripts a lot.

Thanks!

[valadaptive]

This has been implemented in v0.9.2 (see #223)

[abcnorio]

Oh pretty cool! Thanks.

btw - I wrote an R script that takes a spreadsheet as input which contains a profile (like one of those that are published here on the discussion list e.g. VHS, betacam, whatever, ...) and creates based on statistical considerations image output. One can create multiple versions per image or one version per image - over lots of images. For this your new feature will be invaluable. The statistical part can be tweaked separately for each ntsc-rs config. In short, one puts a simple distribution on it or can create one if one wishes to do so. Then an anchor and lower/ upper bounds are added. Simple, but works.