Thumbnail Creator

Installation

Requires NodeJS v8.2.0 or above

Frontend

cd client
npm install
npm start

Client will start on localhost:3000

Backend

cd service
npm install
npm start

Service will start on localhost:5000 Screenshots will be saved in /service/videos/ by default.

Requirements

• Accepts URL for video
• Download video
• Runs FFMPEG as a console application to extract thumbnail
• Reload page with thumbnail

References

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16316330/how-to-write-file-if-parent-folder-doesnt-exist
• https://superuser.com/questions/538112/meaningful-thumbnails-for-a-video-using-ffmpeg
• https://www.ffmpeg.org/documentation.html

Videos used to test

• http://mcs-dev.testing.s3.amazonaws.com/sample_videos/despicableme-tlr1_h1080p_5seconds.MP4
• http://videos2.sendvid.com/fe/f9/bgmyb5g7.mp4
• http://videos2.sendvid.com/d7/5c/s0dbu7rv.mp4