Some of the oldest readers of this blog are well aware of [a certain hobby of mine]({{ site.url }}/category/anime). Over the years I’ve always wanted to write more about that, including the stuff I’m viewing nowadays, but I found a hassle to collect snapshots from videos / DVDs, selecting them, and so on. Recently I learnt that VLC has some rather complete Python bindings, and I thought, why not make the process automated?