Video Thumbnails in Java

Question

I want to generate a thumbnail preview of videos in Java. I\'m mostly JMF and video manipulation alienated.

• Is there an easy way to do it?
• What about

Answer 1

My own server-side app shells out to FFmpeg to do the encoding. I'm 98.42% sure FFmpeg does snapshots, too. (It is an all singing, all dancing beast of a program. The command line options alone could fill a book.)

Check it out: ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu