[Tutor] write a movie file thumbnail in Linux...

[Luke Paireepinart]

Eric Walstad wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Nautilus does it when I browse to a directory that contains images and
> movie files created with my digital camera.  I see thumbnails of the
> image (jpeg) and the movie (mov) files.
>
> I use python to process (rename, make reduced resolution copies (PIL))
> of my image files.  I'd like to also have my python script make those
> cool thumbnails of the movie files, too.
>
> Anybody have recommendations for how to do this with Python or other
> Linux command line tools?
>   
pyMedia can be used to process various movie types.
The documentation isn't the greatest (especially compared to most other 
Python libraries)
but I'm pretty sure it will work for pulling out specific frames (or 
just the first, or whatever.)
-Luke