Media Thumbnail

This is a package that can create thumbnails from media files like images or videos. It also has an optional mode to add thumbnails to Dired.

Usage

(media-thumbnail-for-file "/some/video.mp4")

;; Use with Dired.
(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'media-thumbnail-dired-mode)

Dependencies

brew install ffmpegthumbnailer # Used for videos.

Installation

M-x package-install RET media-thumbnail RET

Or clone / download this repository and modify your load-path:

(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "/path/to/media-thumbnail/" user-emacs-directory))

Emacs -Q example

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)
(package-refresh-contents)

(unless (package-installed-p 'media-thumbnail)
  (package-install 'media-thumbnail))
(require 'media-thumbnail)
(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'media-thumbnail-dired-mode)

Use-Package Example

(use-package media-thumbnail
  :ensure nil
  :diminish media-thumbnail-dired-mode
  :straight (:type git :host github :repo "jojojames/media-thumbnail")
  :commands (media-thumbnail-dired-mode)
  :init
  (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'media-thumbnail-dired-mode))