how to generate video thumbnail in node.js?

Question

I am building an app with node.js, I successfully uploaded the video, but I need to generate a video thumbnail for it. Currently I use node exec to execute a system command

Answer 1

Using media-thumbnail, you can easily generate thumbnails from your videos. The module basically wraps the ffmpeg thumbnail functionality.

const mt = require('media-thumbnail')

mt.forVideo(
  './path/to/video.mp4',
  './path/to/thumbnail.png', {
    width: 200
  })
  .then(() => console.log('Success'), err => console.error(err)) 

You can also create thumbnails from your images using this package.