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

Use playbin2. set the uri to the media file, use gst_element_seek_simple to seek to the desired time position and then use g_signal_emit to invoke the "convert-frame" action signal.