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I'm running the following command from a Windows shell:
It spits out all 2000 files perfectly, but then it reports the following error:

convert.exe: subimage specification returns no images `video.mpeg' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/577.

Normally I wouldn't mind because I'm getting the desired frames extracted, but I need to share this process with my users and I don't want them confused. Is something wrong with my command? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

EDIT: I should note that frames [0-1999] do not report an error.

Looking at that source code, which is complex, IM is trying and failing to clone all the images. It only does this when you have a scene geometry, eg [2000-3999]. Perhaps it is running out of memory. (Cloning shouldn't take much memory, but may take you over a threshold. Each image has a 13,000 bytes overhead so 2000 takes 26 MB.) How large are the video frames?

This isn't a fatal error. Does "-quiet" suppress the message?

You can redirect messages with "2> file.txt", then check the file for fatal error messages.

Thanks for investigating. Using -quiet does not hide the error. I don't think it's a memory issue though. I've simplified the problem, and you can see for yourself.

Download this 48k video file, which is 640x480 and 20 frames long:
http://ledseq.com/downloads/20frames.mp4

Run the following and it works fine:
Run the following and you get the error:
Thoughts?

The bug seems to be complex. It seems to happen when last < 2 * first. Eg [3-4] and [3-5] creates the error; [3-6] is okay.

This occurs with the mp4 file, but not if I first convert it to a multi-page tiff and extract images from that tiff.

Hence the problem may be an interaction with ffmpeg. I don't have a suitable environment for testing further.

Please report this on the bugs forum viewforum.php?f=3, with a link to this thread.

Done. Thanks!