oxtools depends on gstreamer 0.10.30 or newer on ubuntu 10.04 you need sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa Tools oxframe C version in its own repos at http://code.0x2620.org/oxframe/ now oxtimeline create timeline from video oxposter render 0xdb poster oxicon extract icon from frame Python API import oxgst video = oxgst.Video(videoFile) video.frame(pos_in_nanoseconds) >>> timeline = oxgst.Timeline(videoFile) timeline.extract(timeline_prefix, width, height)