video-thumbnail-generator

Generate thumbnail sprites from videos.

Why?

Almost all video players enhances user's seekbar navigation by providing a thumbnail preview of the moments where the user want to seek. This is a python script that, given a video, generate a thumbnail sprite image from it.

Build

Clone this repository. On project folder:

$ chmod a+x build && ./build

Run

$ chmod a+x generator && ./generator --help
Video Thumbnail Generator

Usage:
  ./generator <video> <interval> <width> <height> <columns> <output>
  ./generator (-h | --help)
  ./generator --version

Options:
  -h --help     Show this screen.
  --version     Show version.
  <video>         Video filepath.
  <interval>      Interval em seconds between frames.
  <width>         Width of each thumbnail.
  <height>        Height of each thumbnail.
  <columns>       Total number of thumbnails per line.
  <output>        Output.

Example

$ ./generator videos/27467_1_milkbots_wg_720p.mp4 2 126 73 10 thumbnails.jpg
Extracting 101 frames
.................................................................. Frames extracted.
Saved!

License

This code is under Apache License.