ffmpeg snippets @ r3

Extract single frame as image

bash
# extract image from a video at timestamp 1:16
# use -q:v <num> for jpeg quality control
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -ss 01:16 -frames:v 1 image.jpeg

See this Super User answer for quality details, apparently the values of -qscale are between 1 and 31 for jpegs. PNG is lossless so won't be affected by quality. The v in q:v refers to the video stream. From the man page:

Use fixed quality scale (VBR). The meaning of q/qscale is codec-dependent. If qscale is used without a stream_specifier then it applies only to the video stream, this is to maintain compatibility with previous behavior and as specifying the same codec specific value to 2 different codecs that is audio and video generally is not what is intended when no stream_specifier is used.