FFMpeg Converting a video to 8 bit BMP frames

Question

I have been having trouble converting a video to 8 bit BMP frames. How to convert it using FFmpeg? or have suggestion software to do that?

Answer 1

If you just want one frame:

ffmpeg -i <input> -vframes 1 -pix_fmt bgr8 -y output.bmp

If you want lots of output frames:

ffmpeg -i <input> -pix_fmt bgr8 yo%03d.bmp