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When using ffmpeg to output a series of frames as images, the only format I can find documentation for is frame_%d.jpg. The %d identifier is replaced by the sequential frame count.

Are there other parameters I can use in the output file format? Specifically, I need the ability to add the timestamp of the specific frame.

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Also taking this up with ffmpeg-dev - ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-December/117790.html –  Yuval Adam Dec 17 '11 at 13:11
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Turns out this behavior was not yet implemented at the time.

I implemented an initial version of %t support on my fork of FFmpeg (https://github.com/yuvadm/FFmpeg), and am currently working on cleaning up the patch so that it can be merged upstream.

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