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Meaningful thumbnails for a Video using FFmpeg

FFmpeg can capture images from videos that can be used as thumbnails to represent the video. Most common ways of doing that are captured in the FFmpeg Wiki.

But, I don’t want to pick random frames at some intervals. I found some options using filters on FFmpeg to capture scene changes:

The filter thumbnailtries to find the most representative frames…