Video Sprites

Exports thumbnail images, thumbnail sprite image, and a WebVTT metadata file with synced media fragment URLs to thumbnails within the sprite.

Installation

gem install video-sprites --pre

Requirements

• ffmpeg
• imagemagick (montage)

Usage

video-sprites --help

video-sprites --seconds 5 --width 200 --columns 5 --input . --output ./output

Test Media Sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTCEDG9h9AA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AGisNPUBqM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9To9NOLEPI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww4WrcjAOlo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-eInv9f7g

TODO

• Consider adding an option to change the output filename.
• Optionally allow for scene change detection and variable length cues. How difficult would this be?
• Should the first timestamp after the first cue not be on the second but be a fractional second instead?

Authors

• Ashley Blewer
• Jay Brown
• Jason Ronallo
• Nicholas Zoss