FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER(1)

✨ FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about ffmpegthumbnailer — the fast and lightweight video thumbnailer from the General Commands Manual. it's giving utility icon energy and honestly? obsessed. 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

ffmpegthumbnailer — fast and lightweight video thumbnailer. that's it, that's the whole vibe. no notes. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ffmpegthumbnailer [options]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea, bestie. Ffmpegthumbnailer is a lightweight video thumbnailer that file managers can use to make thumbnails for your video files. like, your file manager wants cute little preview pics and this is the one it calls. 🫶

the way it works is it uses ffmpeg to decode frames from the video files, which means the supported video formats depend entirely on the configuration flags of ffmpeg. so if ffmpeg wasn't built with it, this can't do it. iykyk. no cap. 💀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

one bullet per flag, all of them, no skipping, periodt. 🌈

• -i<s> — the input file. the video you're feeding in. main character energy right here. 🎀
• -o<s> — the output file. where the thumbnail gets to live. ✨
• -s<n> — thumbnail size. and listen, you can pass 0 to get the original size. default is 128. 💖
• -q<n> — image quality, where 0 = bad and 10 = best. default is 8. heads up: this one only applies to jpeg. 🍓
• -c<s> — override the image format. the options are jpeg or png. if you don't set it, the default is determined by the filename. 🙈
• -t<n|s> — the time to seek to. you can give it a percentage or an absolute time in hh:mm:ss. default is 10%. lowkey the most fun option here. ⭐
• -a — ignore the aspect ratio and generate a square thumbnail. yes, it will square it up. no, it will not apologize. 💅
• -f — create a movie strip overlay. cute little filmstrip aesthetic, we love. 🎞️
• -m — prefer embedded image metadata over the actual video content. so if the file has a lil picture baked in, it'll pick that instead. 🦋
• -h — display this help. bestie behavior fr fr. 🫶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Written by Dirk Vanden Boer. thank you for your service, king. 👑

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found something cursed? report bugs to <http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegthumbnailer/issues/list> — go tell them, don't suffer in silence. 💀

🌈 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. (yes the caps are theirs, it's a whole dramatic moment, respect it. ✨)

okay that's the whole page, and that's on the FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER(1) from the General Commands Manual. go forth and make thumbnails, bestie. slay. 💖🎀✨💅🦋