Topic: Video Thumbnails Auto-Generation?

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Hi, I am trying to upload a video, but there is no thumbnail when I try to upload it. Does this website automatically generate one, or do I have to find some way to add one?

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Flash just gets a big image that says "Flash." Webm seems to grab a screencap of about a second in.

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Furrin_Gok said:
Webm seems to grab a screencap of about a second in.

WebM uses ffmpeg thumbnail filter and I assume it's using default value, meaning it takes first 100 frames, compares them trying to find most representative frame and use that.
https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#thumbnail

This reduces the changes of black or odd frame showing up, but if e.g. 60 FPS video has first three seconds black, thumbnail will still turn solid black.

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