I'd like to create thumbnails for MPEG-4 AVC videos using Gstreamer and Python. Essentially:

  1. Open the video file
  2. Seek to a certain point in time (e.g. 5 seconds)
  3. Grab the frame at that time
  4. Save the frame to disc as a .jpg file

I've been looking at this other similar question, but I cannot quite figure out how to do the seek and frame capture automatically without user input.

So in summary, how can I capture a video thumbnail with Gstreamer and Python as per the steps above?

python video gstreamer
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