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extract_first_video_frame_with_pyav.py
import av
def extract_first_frame():
it = iter(av.open('../video.mp4').decode(video=0))
video_frame = next(it).reformat(width=640, height=480, format='rgb24') # av.video.frame.VideoFrame instance
# From VideoFrame you can obtain PIL.Image, numpy array etc.
rgb24_image = video_frame.to_image() # PIL.Image instance
rgb24_image.show() # show image
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