Video Thumbnails in Java

Question

I want to generate a thumbnail preview of videos in Java. I'm mostly JMF and video manipulation alienated.

• Is there an easy way to do it?
• What about codecs? Will I have to deal with it?
• Any video type is suported? (including Quicktime)

Answer 1

Well, since you're not stuck with JMF, have you considered Xuggler? Xuggler is a Java API that uses FFmpeg under the covers to do all video decoding and encoding. It's free and LGPL licensed.

In fact, we have a tutorial that shows How to Make Thumbnails of an Existing File