Video Thumbnailing

[benjaminpick]

JMF?
ffmpeg?

[benjaminpick]

After reading SO comments, I've decided for xuggler. However, after implementing it I realised that it didn't work - see branch xuggler (using version 5.4). If somebody knows how to resolve these errors, please let me know:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.slf4j.Logger.trace(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)V
    at com.xuggle.ferry.JNILibrary.getNativeManifests(JNILibrary.java:67)
    at com.xuggle.ferry.JNILibrary.generateCandidateLibraryURLs(JNILibrary.java:353)
    at com.xuggle.ferry.JNILibrary.loadFromClasspath(JNILibrary.java:191)
    at com.xuggle.ferry.JNILibrary.load(JNILibrary.java:176)
    at com.xuggle.ferry.JNILibrary.load(JNILibrary.java:158)
    at com.xuggle.ferry.FerryJNI.<clinit>(FerryJNI.java:16)
    at com.xuggle.ferry.Ferry.<clinit>(Ferry.java:25)
    at com.xuggle.xuggler.XugglerJNI.<clinit>(XugglerJNI.java:19)
    at com.xuggle.xuggler.IContainer.<clinit>(IContainer.java:1622)
    at com.xuggle.mediatool.MediaReader.<init>(MediaReader.java:137)
    at com.xuggle.mediatool.ToolFactory.makeReader(ToolFactory.java:77)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.thumbnailers.XugglerVideoThumbnailer.generateThumbnail(XugglerVideoThumbnailer.java:72)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.thumbnailers.XugglerVideoThumbnailer.generateThumbnail(XugglerVideoThumbnailer.java:60)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.ThumbnailerManager.executeThumbnailers(ThumbnailerManager.java:330)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.ThumbnailerManager.generateThumbnail(ThumbnailerManager.java:289)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.ThumbnailerManager.generateThumbnail(ThumbnailerManager.java:311)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.test.ThumbnailerFileTestDummy._create_thumbnail(ThumbnailerFileTestDummy.java:92)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.test.ThumbnailerFileTestDummy.create_thumbnail(ThumbnailerFileTestDummy.java:83)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.test.ThumbnailerFileTestDummy.create_thumbnail(ThumbnailerFileTestDummy.java:74)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.test.ThumbnailGeneratorBasicTest.generateThumbnail(ThumbnailGeneratorBasicTest.java:31)
    [...]

and

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.xuggle.xuggler.IContainer
    at com.xuggle.mediatool.MediaReader.<init>(MediaReader.java:137)
    at com.xuggle.mediatool.ToolFactory.makeReader(ToolFactory.java:77)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.thumbnailers.XugglerVideoThumbnailer.generateThumbnail(XugglerVideoThumbnailer.java:72)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.thumbnailers.XugglerVideoThumbnailer.generateThumbnail(XugglerVideoThumbnailer.java:60)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.ThumbnailerManager.executeThumbnailers(ThumbnailerManager.java:330)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.ThumbnailerManager.generateThumbnail(ThumbnailerManager.java:289)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.ThumbnailerManager.generateThumbnail(ThumbnailerManager.java:311)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.test.ThumbnailerFileTestDummy._create_thumbnail(ThumbnailerFileTestDummy.java:92)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.test.ThumbnailerFileTestDummy.create_thumbnail(ThumbnailerFileTestDummy.java:83)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.test.ThumbnailerFileTestDummy.create_thumbnail(ThumbnailerFileTestDummy.java:74)
    at de.uni_siegen.wineme.come_in.thumbnailer.test.ThumbnailGeneratorBasicTest.generateThumbnail(ThumbnailGeneratorBasicTest.java:31)

[ubitux]

Note: if you want to use FFmpeg for thumbnailing, you can look into the http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#thumbnail filter, or maybe better the scene detection system of the select filter: http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#aselect_002c-select (see examples). Or you can just simply pick the first or N frame.

[benjaminpick]

Wow, thank you very much, I didn't even know such a feature existed!