ezthumb

A video thumbnail generator based on FFMPEG.

Features

Supports almost any video format include x265.
Ouput JPG, PNG or GIF format.
Support generating transparent PNG or GIF.
Support generating Animated GIF.
Support generating all thumbnails in one canvas, or generating individual thumbnails.
Support batch processing in command line.
Support both command line tool and a lightweight GUI application.
Cross platform design support Linux/Windows XP/Windows 7 (Win32 API).
Using IUP portable UI library to gain the native GUI feeling.
Written in C and FFMPEG, as well as libav, API.

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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srgrass Posted 2020-09-28

Thank you very much for the program with a free open source license!
widmany Posted 2018-02-27

Perfect
srdo Posted 2017-08-27

Nice Work! For compiling in Ubuntu 17.04: apt install libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libswscale-dev libavutil-dev libgd-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/freetype2" make make install
guixxx Posted 2017-05-10

Most complete tool out there to generate video thumbnails
microfin Posted 2012-10-15

Simple and powerful.latest version of ffmpeg is out so please update your software accordingly and add few options also

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux, MinGW/MSYS2, Windows

User Interface

Command-line, GTK+, Win32 (MS Windows)

Programming Language

Related Categories

C Screen Capture Software, C Command Line Tools, C Thumbnail Makers

Registered

2011-08-23

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