Creating thumbnails from video files with Python

Question

I need to create thumbnails for a video file once I\'ve uploaded to a webapp running python.

How would I go about this... I need a library that can basically either

Answer 1

A simple combination of PyMedia and PIL would do the trick for AVI, ASF, or MPEG files. PyMedia lets you extract the frames (using the decoder() routine), while PIL has a simple thumbnail() routine.