How to create video thumbnails with Python and Gstreamer

Question

I\'d like to create thumbnails for MPEG-4 AVC videos using Gstreamer and Python. Essentially:

1. Open the video file
2. Seek to a certain point in time (e.g

Answer 1

An example in Vala, with GStreamer 1.0 :

var playbin = Gst.ElementFactory.make ("playbin", null);
playbin.set ("uri", "file:///path/to/file");
// some code here.
var caps = Gst.Caps.from_string("image/png");
Gst.Sample sample;
Signal.emit_by_name(playbin, "convert-sample", caps, out sample);
if(sample == null)
    return;
var sample_caps = sample.get_caps ();
if(sample_caps == null)
    return;
unowned Gst.Structure structure = sample_caps.get_structure(0);
int width = (int)structure.get_value ("width");
int height = (int)structure.get_value ("height");
var memory = sample.get_buffer().get_memory (0);
Gst.MapInfo info;
memory.map (out info, Gst.MapFlags.READ);
uint8[] data = info.data;