Using Open Source to Create a Video Thumbnails Service

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Post by flavioribeiro » Tue, Aug 01, 2017, 5:48 PM UTC

Using Open Source to Create a Video Thumbnails Service
blog.flavioribeiro.com

Re: Using Open Source to Create a Video Thumbnails Service

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Post by ju-st » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 9:56 AM UTC

Should have used an image thumbnailing service for the blog post (15MB of embedded images)

Re: Using Open Source to Create a Video Thumbnails Service

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Post by kiloreux » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 10:39 AM UTC

As retarded as this question could be? Why not just use Ffmpeg? It's the ultimate tool for such tasks.

Re: Using Open Source to Create a Video Thumbnails Service

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Post by NicoJuicy » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 10:47 AM UTC

kiloreux wrote: post #3

As retarded as this question could be? Why not just use Ffmpeg? It's the ultimate tool for such tasks.

Indeed, I did this in the past through ffmpeg. Great tool!

Re: Using Open Source to Create a Video Thumbnails Service

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Post by detaro » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 10:48 AM UTC

kiloreux wrote: post #3

As retarded as this question could be? Why not just use Ffmpeg? It's the ultimate tool for such tasks.

It uses Ffmpeg for the video processing bits.

Re: Using Open Source to Create a Video Thumbnails Service

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Post by nsebban » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 10:49 AM UTC

kiloreux wrote: post #3

As retarded as this question could be? Why not just use Ffmpeg? It's the ultimate tool for such tasks.

Your question is not retarded at all. FFMpeg IS the best tool to build a Thumbnail extraction service.

Over-engineering is sometimes quite fun, though.

Re: Using Open Source to Create a Video Thumbnails Service

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Post by corobo » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 11:42 AM UTC

kiloreux wrote: post #3

As retarded as this question could be? Why not just use Ffmpeg? It's the ultimate tool for such tasks.

Purely curiosity at this point - it was something I wanted for a project a while back that has been retired - does anyone here know of the best way to get a good thumbnail from a video using ffmpeg?

I think back then I was looking to take 5-10 snaps somewhere between the 30-50% mark and then use the largest (I guess in theory more detail - not a blank frame) image

Does anyone have a better way, or even just know how to pull a snapshot at "30%" using ffmpeg? I think at the time I used outside code and ffprobe to figure out where 30% is, there's bound to be a better way than that

Re: Using Open Source to Create a Video Thumbnails Service

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Post by NKCSS » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 12:21 PM UTC

> We decided not to open source Lumberjack. At the end of the day the whole project is just some business logics around the open source projects I mentioned on this post.

:-/

Re: Using Open Source to Create a Video Thumbnails Service

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Post by FroshKiller » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 1:07 PM UTC

kiloreux wrote: post #3

As retarded as this question could be? Why not just use Ffmpeg? It's the ultimate tool for such tasks.

Please don't use the word "retarded" like this. If you suspect you're asking a question with an obvious answer that you've missed, try saying "forgive my ignorance" instead.

There's nothing wrong with asking questions without self-deprecation, but if you're going to self-deprecate, try not to use hurtful language.

Re: Using Open Source to Create a Video Thumbnails Service

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Post by IgorPartola » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 1:32 PM UTC

FroshKiller wrote: post #9

kiloreux wrote: post #3

As retarded as this question could be? Why not just use Ffmpeg? It's the ultimate tool for such tasks.

Please don't use the word "retarded" like this. If you suspect you're asking a question with an obvious answer that you've missed, try saying "forgive my ignorance" instead. There's nothing wrong with asking questions without self-deprecation, but if you're going to self-deprecate, try not to use hurtful language.

Seconded.