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 could use the Youtube API for storage and transcoding and grab the feed thumbnails for free. Honestly, that's the easiest way to handle online video and I'm not just shilling a 3rd party service, I'm a very happy user of that API and the internal video paths I was able to delete thanks to it.