how do i get thumbnails for a video gallery?

[simple dagger]

codepen: https://codepen.io/Loading617/pen/NPGbYMx

[wheat garden]

You can use ffmpeg to extract thumbnails during video uploads

[simple dagger]

how to? @wheat garden

[wheat garden]

Start by downloading ffmpeg

And "how" to extract the thumbnails depends on your back-end language, for php it's pretty easy... But no idea about other languages

[simple dagger]

okay thanks! @wheat garden

[wheat garden]

No problem 🙂

[simple dagger]

i extracted the folder but don't know what to do next @wheat garden

[wheat garden]

Start command prompt and write ffmpeg -version to make sure you can run ffmpeg commands, you should see something like this

If you cannot run ffmpeg commands, you need to add ffmpeg to environment variables

[simple dagger]

ok

[wheat garden]

When you can run ffmpeg commands, you can do command like
ffmpeg -i input_video.mp4 -vf "select='not(mod(n,300))'" -vframes 5 thumbnail_%03d.png
to extract thumbnails, just edit the video filename

And how you use this in your back-end video upload script, well... That kinda depends on what language you are using and what your video upload script looks like