How to add a time stamp using ffmpeg to a screenshot capture of a video

Question

I am trying to output a screenshot of a video at an specified time and the resulting picture should have a black square with the time that was given initially.

So far I was only able to produce a screenshot using vframes from the example at the documentation on ffmpeg page which is this below:

ffmpeg -i input.flv -ss 00:00:14.435 -vframes 1 out.png

But I would like to add a timestamp in the resulting thumbnail or capture of the video which would show that '00:00:14.435' using arial fontface and a black square as background an yellow as fontcolor. Can this be done?.

Answer 1

Use

ffmpeg -start_at_zero -copyts -ss 00:00:14.435 -i input.mp4
    -vf "drawtext=fontfile=/path/to/Arial.ttf:
          fontsize=45:fontcolor=yellow:box=1:boxcolor=black:x=(W-tw)/2:y=H-th-10:
          text='Time\: %{pts\:hms}'"
    -vframes 1 output.png