


Periodic Screenshot/Thumbnail with Resizing Simple, wasn’t it? Now that you know how to produce a single thumbnail or screenshot, let’s move to the next section where we understand how to create regular or periodic thumbnails. then, you mention the name of the output file ( screenshot_10.jpg).-frames:v 1 tells FFmpeg to take only 1 screenshot.For example, you can tell FFmpeg to seek to 01:02:03 – i.e., the 3rd second of the 2nd minute of the 1 hour of the movie! The syntax for specifying the time is HH:MM:SS.MILLISECONDS. For accurate seeking, you need to use output seeking and not input seeking (i.e., putting -ss before the input sequence). -ss is the seek command and it can be used to seek to the right position.

Understanding this is very simple! Here goes – ffmpeg -i inputvideo.mp4 -ss 00:00:03 -frames:v 1 foobar.jpeg Single Screenshot/Thumbnail Using -frames:vįirst, let’s understand how to take a single screenshot or thumbnail using FFmpeg.
