# How to get thumbnails for content videos
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnails-for-content-videos/41672
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [June 20, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnails-for-content-videos/41672 "2014-06-20T12:53:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Amer\_Kawarit](https://community.wowza.com/u/Amer_Kawarit)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnails-for-content-videos/41672/1 "2014-06-20T12:53:33Z")
Hello everyone,
how can I get thumbnails for videos already exist in content folder with mp4 format with http provider?
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### Author:  [@Matt\_Young](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matt_Young)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2014, 6:49am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnails-for-content-videos/41672/2 "2014-06-20T06:49:50Z")
We have a simple module that creates a thumbnail found [here](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-take-a-single-frame-snapshot-of-a-live-stream-for-thumbnail-creation-modulecreatesnapshot%28ModuleCreateSnapshot%29). You could modify the source or use it as a starting point in developing your own http provider.
Alternatively, you might try just using ffmpeg in a similar fashion:
```auto
ffmpeg -y -i [input-file].[ext] -f [output-format] -vframes [number-of-frames] -ss [seconds-offset] [output-file].[ext]
#create thumbnail of sample.mp4 file 30 seconds in
ffmpeg -y -i sample.mp4 -f mjpeg -vframes 1 -ss 30 sample.jpg
```
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### Author:  [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2014, 7:25am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnails-for-content-videos/41672/3 "2014-06-20T07:25:56Z")
Another option would be to use a stream class stream to publish the VOD content as a live source to the Transcoder and then use the HTTPProvider:
[How to do basic server-side publishing with Stream class streams](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-basic-server-side-publishing-with-stream-class-streams)
[How to get thumbnail images from Wowza Transcoder with an HTTP Provider](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-thumbnail-images-from-wowza-transcoder-with-an-http-provider)
Salvadore
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### Author:  [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnails-for-content-videos/41672/4 "2014-06-21T18:59:11Z")
Awesome! Thanks for the update and glad I could help.
Salvadore
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### Author:  [@Amer\_Kawarit](https://community.wowza.com/u/Amer_Kawarit)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnails-for-content-videos/41672/5 "2014-06-20T14:22:17Z")
> We have a simple module that creates a thumbnail found [here](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-take-a-single-frame-snapshot-of-a-live-stream-for-thumbnail-creation-modulecreatesnapshot%28ModuleCreateSnapshot%29). You could modify the source or use it as a starting point in developing your own http provider.
>
> thank you matt, here we call the module from flash client, cant we call this module from java? if not where can I fined the source code of this module to make it as http provider?
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### Author:  [@Amer\_Kawarit](https://community.wowza.com/u/Amer_Kawarit)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnails-for-content-videos/41672/6 "2014-06-20T15:20:49Z")
there is manual solution using javax.media but I cannot find javax.media in Wowza ide??
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### Author:  [@Amer\_Kawarit](https://community.wowza.com/u/Amer_Kawarit)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-thumbnails-for-content-videos/41672/7 "2014-06-22T02:48:31Z")
> Another option would be to use a stream class stream to publish the VOD content as a live source to the Transcoder and then use the HTTPProvider:
>
> [How to do basic server-side publishing with Stream class streams](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-basic-server-side-publishing-with-stream-class-streams)
>
> [How to get thumbnail images from Wowza Transcoder with an HTTP Provider](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-thumbnail-images-from-wowza-transcoder-with-an-http-provider)
>
> Salvadore
Thank you so much it worked!