FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER(1) General Commands Manual FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER(1)
NAME
ffmpegthumbnailer - fast and lightweight video thumbnailer
SYNOPSIS
ffmpegthumbnailer [options]
DESCRIPTION
Ffmpegthumbnailer is a lightweight video thumbnailer that can be used
by file managers to create thumbnails for your video files. The thumb-
nailer uses ffmpeg to decode frames from the video files, so supported
videoformats depend on the configuration flags of ffmpeg.
OPTIONS
-i<s> : input file
-o<s> : output file
-s<n> : thumbnail size (use 0 for original size) (default: 128)
-q<n> : image quality (0 = bad, 10 = best) (default: 8) (only for
jpeg)
-c<s> : override image format (jpeg or png) (default: determined by
filename)
-t<n|s>
: time to seek to (percentage or absolute time hh:mm:ss) (de-
fault: 10%)
-a : ignore aspect ratio and generate square thumbnail
-f : create a movie strip overlay
-m : prefer embedded image metadata over video content
-h : display this help
AUTHOR
Written by Dirk Vanden Boer.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegthumbnailer/issues/list>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2008 Dirk Vanden Boer <dirk.vdb@gmail.com>
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2 or later)
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the
extent permitted by law.
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