extract_thumbnails

🖼️ Extract Frames from Video

This Python tool extracts frames (thumbnails) from a video file at specified N-second intervals. It uses FFmpeg for efficient video processing.

🔧 Features

• Extracts frames from a video at regular N-second intervals.
• Supports various video formats (any format FFmpeg can handle).
• Customizable interval.
• Outputs frames to a specified folder, named by timestamp or sequence.

🏁 Quickstart

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run frame extraction
python extract_frames.py --input examples/sample_video.mp4 --output_folder output_frames/ --interval 5

📂 Output

The tool will create an output folder (e.g., output_frames/) containing the extracted frames named sequentially or by timestamp, like:

• frame_00001.jpg (sequential)
• frame_at_0m5s.jpg (timestamp based)
• ...