Create thumb directly from URL ?

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Well this is more like a new feature I would see being very useful to many...

I'm currently using the regular ffmpeg to create thumbnails, and I have all my 
videos stored remotely on various servers.

So I'm thinking ffmpegthumbnailer would be nice to create thumbs from remote 
URL video files.

Here's what I tried and did not work:

ffmpegthumbnailer -i "http://www.29content.com/serious/29MGmaybachfulda.m4v" -a 
-c jpeg -f -w -s90x90 -t 20 -q 10 -o test.jpg
[h264 @ 0x9235570]AVC: nal size 408607330
[h264 @ 0x9235570]no frame!
Error: Failed to decode video frame: bytesDecoded < 0

It did create the text.jpg file but put nothing in it :) It was empty... So 
again doesn't seem to work with remote URL videos.

Would greatly appreciate if you add this feature and also some sort of real 
error handling for it too with nice error messages so I know if there's 
anything wrong with that URL... (for instance if it's not of video type or 
whatever...)

Thank you very much.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by php...@gmail.com on 31 Oct 2010 at 1:10

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What version are you using? The command you supplied worked over here.

Might also be related to your ffmpeg version.

Original comment by dirk.vdb on 2 Nov 2010 at 7:50

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Original comment by dirk.vdb on 30 Nov 2010 at 3:55

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ok it's alright with the latest version, but you should make sure that's also 
the version distributed by ubuntu universe... Most people are using apt-get 
install :P So would be nice to have that in there... Just a thought :)

Original comment by php...@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2010 at 4:04

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I'm sorry about the delay... I was held up with lots of stuff....

Original comment by php...@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2010 at 4:05