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, so generate this sprites shouldn't be hard. This is a python script that, given a video, generates a thumbnail sprite image from it.

Build

1. Clone it:

$ git clone [email protected]:flavioribeiro/video-thumbnail-generator.git

2. Then go to the project's folder:

$ cd video-thumbnail-generator

3. And finally run:

$ chmod a+x build && ./build

Run

$ ./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 5 frames
  [####################################]  100%
Frames extracted.
Saved!

Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-awesome-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -m 'Add some awesome feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-awesome-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request :]

License

This code is under Apache License.