Creating video thumbnails using ffmpeg (28,654 views)

Comments on "Creating video thumbnails using ffmpeg": 24 Comments

1. aris wrote,

   how if my filename is with space instead?!
   ex: my video.avi

   thanks for reply

   Link | April 13th, 2008 at 6:49 am

2. prashanthellina wrote,

   Try enclosing the filename in double quotes like this –> “my video.avi”

   Link | April 13th, 2008 at 7:42 am

3. aris wrote,

   still no effect..
   i trying to upload
   $filePath = $uploadDir.$fileName;

   ffmpeg -i “.$filePath.” -y -s 320×240 -ab 32000 -ar 22050 -g 160 -cmp 3 -subcmp 3 -mbd 2 -flags aic+cbp+mv0+mv4+trell “.$convPath

   where $filePath is source path where files is already uploaded.
   upload is successfull but when ffmpeg start to conversion i got no files at $convPath.but vice versa if i use filename with no spaces instead.

   Link | April 13th, 2008 at 7:53 am

4. prashanthellina wrote,

   The command you posted here is missing a ” at the end. When the command runs, does it throw any errors?

   Link | April 13th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

5. mike wrote,

   Using “-ss” rather than “-itsoffset” is considerably faster. e.g. ffmpeg -ss 12 -i test.avi -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320×240 test.jpg

   Link | May 20th, 2008 at 11:35 pm

6. prashanthellina wrote,

   Thanks for the info, Mike.

   Link | June 1st, 2008 at 10:34 pm

7. sagar wrote,

   Hi, is there any possibility to create thumbnails in windows environment

   Link | July 17th, 2008 at 10:24 am

8. prashanthellina wrote,

   Sagar, I have not tried it, but I think ffmpeg can be compiled for windows.

   Link | July 17th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

9. sagar wrote,

   Thanks Prashanth Ellina…

   Link | July 18th, 2008 at 9:39 am

10. Roger wrote,

    if you canot instal ffmpeg on the server is there another option to generate thumbnails on linux

    Link | October 13th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

11. jojo wrote,

    @mike , Very useful command , thanks .

    Link | November 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm

12. dong wrote,

    It is not work on Linux

    Link | December 12th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

13. dong wrote,

    Help?? Please make it work on Linux

    Link | December 12th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

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    Link | December 15th, 2008 at 7:32 am

15. Mariana wrote,

    Sorry, I can creat video thumbnails using ffmpeg when the video is in other server????? for example:
    ffmpeg -itsoffset -4 -i http://www.otherserver.com/test.avi -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320×240 http://www.myserver.com/test.jpg

    Link | February 26th, 2009 at 8:36 pm

16. shashi k. sharma wrote,

    Hi
    is it possible to execute the following command on server1 and the video is situated at server two and we want to create thumbnail at server 3
    ffmpeg -itsoffset -16 -i server2/home/test/test.avi -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320×240 server3/home/test/test.jpg

    Link | April 24th, 2009 at 5:19 pm

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    Link | May 4th, 2009 at 11:29 am

18. shahbaz ahmad wrote,

    $target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);
    $myphoto = “user/”.$v.”/photo/”.$rname[0].”.jpg”;

    exec (”ffmpeg -itsoffset -4 -i “.$target_path.” -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320×240 “.$myphoto);

    when i run this command in photo directory there is no thumbnails …….
    when i run this command on command prompt as
    ffmpeg -itsoffset -4 -i life.jpg -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320×240 life.flv
    errors comes as…….
    could not find codec parameters
    when i run this command on command prompt as
    ffmpeg -itsoffset -4 -i life.flv -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320×240 life.jpg
    again errors comes as…….
    could not find codec parameters

    Link | May 14th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

19. sree wrote,

    instead of extracting one image,can i extract a number of images in a single line command(not using loop)?

    Link | June 29th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

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21. vipin wrote,

    hi i want to extract(thumbnails) images from video in equal interval im using ffmpeg for image extraction but i dont know how to generate images in equal interval is there any shell script to fulfill this operation (E.G. suppose that i uploaded a video and i dont know the length of the video and it extracts 5 images from the video in equal interval )

    please help

    Link | August 10th, 2009 at 11:58 am

22. Evan wrote,

    If you’re trying to do this server side and you have physical access to the server, you can run ffmpeg directly from the CLI using exec().

    Link | August 14th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

23. dilton wrote,

    I’ve been trying to create video thumbnail file using wampserver. I managed to install ffmpeg but I don’t know how to use in my script. I’m new to php. please any suggestion. Thank in advance

    Link | September 3rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm

24. Sean wrote,

    It works! thanks

    Link | December 26th, 2009 at 3:52 pm