ViThumbs

Create tiled video thumbnail images with metadata

About

I was looking for a simple tool to create video thumbnail files, like I created years ago with "Media Player Classic". In my research I found a few tools for Windows, but only few for macOS and even less (none?) open source.

Instead I found a zsh/bash script from @zmwangx and the fork of @romanwarlock which were looking promising. Since I'm no expert in FFmpeg nor shell scripting I had some trouble adapting the script to my needs initially, but improved eventually.

Example

Example generated from Spring by Blender Studio

Requirements

• FFmpeg
• [FFprobe] (comes with FFmpeg)

Sources

• Original gist
• Forked project