I built the latest cvs build today .. I want to grab a jpeg from a mpeg file here is the output su-2.05b# ffmpeg -i test.mpg -y -f image -img jpeg test%d.jpg -t 0.001 -s 352x240 ffmpeg version CVS, build 3276800, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard configuration: --prefix=/usr/local --enable-a52 --enable-small --enable-shared-pp --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-memalign-hack built on Sep 29 2005 13:55:48, gcc: 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD] Input #0, mpeg, from 'test.mpg': Duration: 00:00:19.0, start: 0.213367, bitrate: 1610 kb/s Stream #0.0[0x1e0], 29.97 fps: Video: mpeg1video, yuv420p, 352x240, 1150 kb/s Stream #0.1[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s Unknown image format: 'jpeg' You have new mail in /var/mail/gateway my OS is freebsd 4.11 stable.. did i miss something in compile options? Steve