[Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos
- From: venkat83@xxxxxxxxx (Venkatraman S)
- Date: Thu Jun 10 10:06:20 2010
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <
girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ffmpeg is also a nice tool. It is usually more buggy when compared to
mencoder in the sense that it does not handle standards gracefully and
the quality of audio is usually poor.
I dunno about its ability to grab frames. It is pretty good at capturing
video
from X11.
Your mileage may vary. There are no canned answers to such questions.
Which in other words means "I dunno." ;)
No probs. I got this response from the django group (posting just for
gyaan).
I actually liked the way how easy it is to get a frame from a video in 4
lines!
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I would recommend using ffmpeg over mplayer for this purpose. ffmpeg
actually has releases, where as there hasn't been a release of mplayer
for over 3 years - the mplayer devs got frustrated at packaging it,
and now recommend users to use tip of svn.
Also, mplayer is based on the same libraries as ffmpeg, so you get the
same end results.
Oooh, theres also a python wrapper around ffmpeg, and their example on
their frontpage does precisely what you asked for:
http://code.google.com/p/pyffmpeg/
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