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Maciej Cieślar
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Dec 9, 2019 ⋅ 7 min read

Generating video previews with Node.js and FFmpeg

Maciej Cieślar A JavaScript developer and a blogger at mcieslar.com.

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2 Replies to "Generating video previews with Node.js and FFmpeg"

  1. Hello, let me thank you for this great article. I finally managed to use these two commands

    ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -y -vf fps=1/24 thumb%04d.jpg
    ffmpeg -framerate 1/0.6 -i thumb%04d.jpg slideshow.mp4

    Is it please possible to batch more than 1 video using those ?

    Thank you
    Vlad

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