Creating thumbnails from video files with Python

Question

I need to create thumbnails for a video file once I\'ve uploaded to a webapp running python.

How would I go about this... I need a library that can basically either

Answer 1

You can use ffvideo

from ffvideo import VideoStream
pil_image = VideoStream('0.flv').get_frame_at_sec(5).image()
pil_image.save('frame5sec.jpeg')