Timeline for Generating thumbnail from only the first megabytes of a video file
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| Nov 18, 2020 at 19:02 | comment | added | m3u8 | Same answer. It depends on the container, the codec and encoding settings. There is not one size first all answer. Why not just give ffmpeg the URL, and let it figure it out? | |
| Nov 17, 2020 at 16:05 | comment | added | MartinW | I could extend the size of the fragment I use, it does not have to be 1MB. Everything that keeps me from having to deal with the video as a whole is a performance win. So a better question would have been probably: Under what circumstances does FFmpeg need access the end of a video file, just to produce a thumbnail of the first frame. | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 18:18 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 12, 2020 at 18:14 | history | answered | m3u8 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |