Thumbnail is a term used by graphic designers and photographers for a small image representation of a larger image, usually intended to make it easier and faster to look at or manage a group of larger images.
Questions tagged [video-thumbnails]
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Create thumbnail from video file via file input
I am attempting to create a thumbnail preview from a video file (mp4,3gp) from a form input type='file'. Many have said that this can be done server side only. I find this hard to believe since I just recently came across this Fiddle using HTML5…

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How to create a video thumbnail from a video file path in Android?
I want to create a thumbnail of a video from the SD card path. How can I do that?

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Get YouTube video thumbnail and use it with PHP
How can I access thumbnail collection of a YouTube video using the link of the video from the YouTube API.
I want thumbnails to be displayed on website using PHP using the video id stored in a variable for example $link
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Creating Thumbnail for Video in iOS
I have an application that I am developing for the iPhone. What it does is, it captures the video from the camera and stores the video file onto the File System.
I need to create a Thumbnail Image of this video file before I save the Image to the…

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Range selector / range seekbar to trim video including thumbnails
I am looking for a library or open source project that provides UI for trimming videos as you see in the screenshot. Including
Range selector with ability to increase, decrease and move the selection
Thumbnails
Current position of playback
Just…

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iOS - How to get thumbnail from video without play?
I'm trying to get thumbnail from video and show it in my tableview. Here is my code:
- (UIImage *)imageFromVideoURL:(NSURL *)contentURL {
AVAsset *asset = [AVAsset assetWithURL:contentURL];
// Get thumbnail at the very start of the video
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Extracting thumbnails with FFMPEG is super slow on large video files?
I extract thumbnails from a .MOV file using FFMPEG on Linus (Debian 64bit).
The file I extract the thumbnail from is about 430 Megabytes large.
I use the following command to do so:
ffmpeg -i 'largeVideoFile.mov' -ss 00:14:37 -vframes 1…

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Generate a thumbnail/snapshot of a video file selected by a file input at a specific time
How do I grab a snapshot of a video file selected via at a specific time in the video silently in-the-background (i.e. no visible elements, flickering, sound, etc.)?

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It is possible to display a video thumbnail from a URL on Android 4 and above?
Both of the below works fine on the emulator (2.3.3), but on a real device (Nexus S with 4.1.2) no image is shown for the thumbnail. I will also try to run it on an Android 4 Emulator. If I set a default android:src for the ImageView, it is not…

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How to get video thumbnail from url in React Native
I have videos that I'd like to present as thumbnails before a user clicks on them for the full video. They are not local, I only have the url, like this: https://filev4.subiz.com/fiqbjssxydufxauruqxi-video_test.mp4 . Is there a RN component or…

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How to force high quality thumbnails for YouTube Player API iframe Embeds?
The thumbnails looked fine for over a year, but suddenly became blurry.
The thumbnail that appears on page load looks correct, but anytime a new thumbnail is displayed using 'player.cueVideoById', it looks very blurry.
There is no mention in the…

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WordPress not exporting or importing featured image
I have been trying to export my WordPress posts in order to import them into a clean WordPress install. The post are imported, however the featured images is not imported.
I have made sure I exported a small number of posts to rule out a timeout…

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how can I show a video thumbnail from a video path?
I want to show a video thumbnail in an ImageView from a video path on storage. Is there a function that takes a video path and returns a bitmap of a thumbnail? I get the video path by this code:
public ArrayList getAllMedia() {
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How to efficiently implement Youtube's Thumbnail preview feature?
I am trying to implement the Youtube's Thumbnail Preview feature for my Simple Video Player. Here's the Snap for it :
Good thing is : It is working smoothly once the Player fetch all the thumbnails previews from a HTTP server.
Bad thing is :…

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Getting a thumbnail of a *.mov video IOS
I want to get a thumbnail of videos (*.mov) which taken with iPhone/iPAD. I am trying to use AVFoundation library for this and getting this error:
couldn't generate thumbnail, error:Error Domain=AVFoundationErrorDomain Code=-11822 "Cannot Open"…

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