thumbup 1.0.0

A convenient video thumbnails generator.

thumbup is a command-line video thumbnails generator written in Python.

Getting thumbup

You’ll need ffmpeg before you can use thumbup, which can be installed by

# on macOS
brew install ffmpeg

# on ubuntu (>= 14.04)
sudo apt-get install -y \
  libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev \
  libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libavresample-dev libavfilter-dev

ffmpeg is also widely available for many other distros. Please refer to the official website https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html.

thumbup can be installed from pip by

pip install thumbup

Usage

To generate thumbnails for video files, use

thumbup file1 file2

The above will create file1.jpg and file2.jpg.

To generate thumbnails for all video files in directory dir, use -R option. thumbup will recursively go through every video in directory dir and generate thumbnails next to them.

thumbup -R dir