Creating thumbnails from video files with Python

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I need to create thumbnails for a video file once I've uploaded to a webapp running python.

How would I go about this... I need a library that can basically either do this for me, or that can read the image frames out of video files (of several formats) automatically.

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I could not install ffvideo on OSX Sierra so i decided to work with ffmpeg.

OSX:

brew install ffmpeg

Linux:

apt-get install ffmpeg

Python 3 Code:

import subprocess
video_input_path = '/your/video.mp4'
img_output_path = '/your/image.jpg'
subprocess.call(['ffmpeg', '-i', video_input_path, '-ss', '00:00:00.000', '-vframes', '1', img_output_path])
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Use pyffmpeg

Install

pip install pyffmpeg

Use

from pyffmpeg import FFmpeg

inf = 'vid.mp4'
outf = 'thumb.jpg'

ff = FFmpeg()
ff.convert(inf, outf)
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You can use the Python script pyvideothumbnailer found on GitHub, which uses PyAV, MediaInfo and PIL/Pillow. It was written by me and is available under the BSD-3-clause license. It should do the complete job for you.

It has meaningful defaults. So you can just start creating your first preview thumbnails image of an individual video file by invoking:

pyvideothumbnailer [VIDEO FILE]

or to create thumbnails of all video files located in the current working directory:

pyvideothumbnailer

or to create thumbnails of all video files located in a directory:

pyvideothumbnailer [DIRECTORY CONTAINING VIDEOS]

or in case that you want to create previews of videos in subdirectories as well:

pyvideothumbnailer --recursive [DIRECTORY CONTAINING VIDEOS]

Its behavior can be controlled by command line options and a user-defined configuration file .pyvideothumbnailer.conf.

Here are two examples how it works creating preview thumbmnails of Big Buck Bunny. For further reference have a look at the GitHub wiki page.

Using defaults:

pyvideothumbnailer bbb_sunflower_1080p_60fps_normal.mp4

bbb_sunflower_1080p_60fps_normal_defaults mp4

White header font on black background, DejaVuSans TrueType font instead of the built-in font, adding a comment at the bottom of the header, custom preview thumbnails image width and 5 x 4 preview thumbnails:

pyvideothumbnailer --background-color black --header-font-color white --header-font DejaVuSans.ttf --timestamp-font DejaVuSans.ttf --comment-text "Created with pyvideothumbnailer" --width 1024 --columns 5 --rows 4 bbb_sunflower_1080p_60fps_normal.mp4

bbb_sunflower_1080p_60fps_normal mp4_example5

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My Solution for both linux and windows os

  • windows download ffmeg compiled lib frmom https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ add to environment variables

  • Linux apt-get install ffmpeg

  • Python Code

     img_output_path = Path(img_output_path).absolute()

 src_video_path = Path(src_video_path).absolute() 

 command = f"ffmpeg -i \"{src_video_path}\" -ss 00:00:00.000 -vframes 1 \"{img_output_path}\""

 os.system(_command)
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