video-extract

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Extract useful information from videos such as:

- getting thumbnails from videos
- frames numbers and the correlated timestamps
- scene change detection

Installation

Requires ffmpeg and phash - related libraries.
Be sure to install the proper binaries.

API

``js var extract = require('video-extract');`

`$3`

`js var video = extract('video.mp4');`

Create a video instances of the file.

`$3`

Run ffprobe on the video and return metadata.

`$3`

Returns info on the frames. framesis an array of frames where each frame has:

- n - the frame #, starting at 0-s - the timestamp in seconds

`$3`

An array of thumbnail files. Lookup a frame by doingthumbnails[] = .

`$3`

Returns the phashes for all the thumbnails. Eachphash is a Buffer instance with byte length 8`.

$3

Clean the working directory.
The working directory is where thumbnails and such are saved.

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video-extract

Extract useful information from videos such as:

- getting thumbnails from videos
- frames numbers and the correlated timestamps
- scene change detection

Installation

Requires ffmpeg and phash - related libraries.
Be sure to install the proper binaries.

API

``js var extract = require('video-extract');`

`$3`

`js var video = extract('video.mp4');`

Create a video instances of the file.

`$3`

Run ffprobe on the video and return metadata.

`$3`

Returns info on the frames. framesis an array of frames where each frame has:

- n - the frame #, starting at 0-s - the timestamp in seconds

`$3`

An array of thumbnail files. Lookup a frame by doingthumbnails[] = .

`$3`

Returns the phashes for all the thumbnails. Eachphash is a Buffer instance with byte length 8`.

$3

Clean the working directory.
The working directory is where thumbnails and such are saved.