Generating thumbnail previews for videos

[braddiddy]

Hello all!
I want to share some things, and manually taking pictures takes awhile, plus the random thumbnails are more accurate as to what to expect.
I'm wondering what options people have to generate thumbnails from videos.
I'm hoping to find something free, either meant to be free, or yoo-hoo-hoo free. Also I don't want to use an online service, or anything that connects to the internet to do it.
I know VLC should be able to do it, but I can't figure out how.
taking the command I found on wikipedia:

vlc C:\video\to\process.mp4 --rate=1 --video-filter=scene --vout=dummy --start-time=10 --stop-time=11 --scene-format=png --scene-ratio=24 --scene-prefix=snap --scene-path=C:\path\for\snapshots\ vlc://quit

I get various errors, depending if I start in vlc directory, the video directory, adding vlc's filepath in quotes, and the video title, in quotes got me closer, but I still can't get it to work.

Does someone maybe have the command or a batch file saved to accomplish this?

Any help is appreciated.

[sunksreroo]

Hello all!
I want to share some things, and manually taking pictures takes awhile, plus the random thumbnails are more accurate as to what to expect.
I'm wondering what options people have to generate thumbnails from videos.
I'm hoping to find something free, either meant to be free, or yoo-hoo-hoo free. Also I don't want to use an online service, or anything that connects to the internet to do it.
I know VLC should be able to do it, but I can't figure out how.
taking the command I found on wikipedia:

vlc C:\video\to\process.mp4 --rate=1 --video-filter=scene --vout=dummy --start-time=10 --stop-time=11 --scene-format=png --scene-ratio=24 --scene-prefix=snap --scene-path=C:\path\for\snapshots\ vlc://quit

I get various errors, depending if I start in vlc directory, the video directory, adding vlc's filepath in quotes, and the video title, in quotes got me closer, but I still can't get it to work.

Does someone maybe have the command or a batch file saved to accomplish this?

Any help is appreciated.

Here are the two that are mentioned a lot in this context:
https://www.videohelp.com/software/Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer
https://www.videohelp.com/software/Video-Thumbnails-Maker

For me the second one is easier to use, it's freemium but it adds a small watermark to your thumbnail.
You can yoo-hoo-hoo premium it, many do but why yoo-hoo-hoo something that is offered as freemium lol.

[marc34608]

https://www.videohelp.com/software/Video-Thumbnails-Maker


This is what I use, very quick and easy. If the watermark bothers you, you can find cracked versions on torrent sites like piratebay.

[lazerblu]

MPC-HC (Media Player Classic) 2.0.0

MPC-HC is a lightweight, open source media player. It supports most video and audio file formats out there.

Code Select Expand

https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4411-media-player-classic-home-cinema.html
As well as being a good media player it has options for screenshots and (watermark free) thumbnail previews. Just set image width together with preferred number of rows & columns and your done. If your doing more than the occasional upload you can also set keyboard shortcut keys for both.

[femfightwatcher]

Any suggestions for iPad?