[Feature Request] Get thumbnail from uploaded video

[Strit]

Hi.

I'd like to request the ability to choose a thumbnail from the uploaded video, instead of always having to choose a picture, from my device.

This would make it easier to do do quick uploads, where a flashy thumbnail is not needed.

[softlair38]

Hi. Dtube let you choose a image from the video source I think no?

[Strit]

Maybe if it's in a format like mp4. But would be great to have the option for other formats aswell. For example I always use mkv for my video files. Codecs is x264 for video and ogg for audio. And I don't get the option.

[softlair38]

Ok. We already think and work on it. Perhaps it will be to choose a time and the uploader will extract the image at this time. Thank you for your message

[skzap]

YouTube does it this way and proposes 3 snapshots of the video to the user after the end of the video processing.

This has major cons for us:

• We store files on IPFS, therefore we would ipfs add two useless files on each upload
• It creates more centralized logic, and in this case this logic here would be a point of failure. If it stops working correctly, no one can upload.
• Creates more work load in the /uploadVideo call (which is already heavy)

As long as the normal snap upload keeps existing, I don't have much problems against this feature. It could be useful to a lot of people, and replace our current 'take snap' feature that isn't very intuitive.