Hello,
i want to know weahter the thumbnail sprite images can be created with ffmpeg or not if not what is the tool can be used to make it on my server while my server will be converting videos and generating thumbnails and sutff with FFMPEG!
i want to use this plugin
http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/31778/adding-tooltip-thumbnails
so while upload how can the sprite images can be created from the video ??
while browsing i found this link also
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
i do not really know what it is or how it works so if that is the tool i need please tell me the deatails on this one too!
I have not personally used FFMPEG before, but there are other tools out there to create VTT thumbs.
Could you name some ?
Video Thumbnails Maker by Scorp
http://www.suu-design.com/downloads.html
http://www.suu-design.com/changelog_vtm.html
But what i want is that sprite images should be created when i upload the video (im using php melody and a freelancer is working on the customization) and if you take a look at the source code of this page
http://tune.pk/video/129462/EXCLUSIVE-Grand-Theft-Auto-V-Official-Gameplay-Video-720P-HD-Rockstar-Games
and search for
var sprite_path
its a vtt file in php format and the sprirte images are i belive generated with ffmpeg please correct me if im wrong and tell me what is the tool!
I don’t know what the tool is for that site. Maybe ffmpeg, but I have never used it before. This program I linked you to works very well though.
can you tell me the settings for the program ? since it creates every 53 secods for some reason :/
What program? I used to and it it works. Please note, it costs $5, but it is worth it.
i downloaded the Video Thumbnails Maker by Scorp for fre ? could you give me a liink to the one you are talking about! ?
Ethan Could you also tell me that if i put a php file for vtt,will it work ? like tune.pk ?
like this ?
http://lwx002.tunefiles.com/files/thumb_sprite.php?file_name=13733820528cbe0&file_directory=2013/07/09/&duration=290.04
please update me on this thanks!
Luigi – That is the program I was talking about. I used it on my own computer and it works fine. I have no idea what thumb_sprite.php is. I don’t know what server side program they used.
But can php file be used ? this is my question instead of the .vtt file ?
You could probably re-name the vtt to php as long as the content type is the same. I have never tried to do it before so I can’t say for sure.
Ok thank you ethan :)
NP
This is what you want:
ffmpeg -i somemovie.mp4 -vf 'thumbnail=TAKE_ONE_OF_EVERY_X_FRAMES,scale=80:45,tile=5x8:nb_frames=40:padding=0:margin=0' -an -vsync 0 overview.jpg
TAKE_ONE_OF_EVERY_X_FRAMES is the tricky number, that you will have to calculate based on the framerate and length of your inputfile.
If the number is not right, you end with more then one sprite image.
Awesome!
