# Thumbnail generator?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/thumbnail-generator/382>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 9, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/thumbnail-generator/382 "2009-03-09T18:57:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/thumbnail-generator/382/1 "2009-03-09T18:57:20Z")

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Hi I’m using wowza with vods3 so we stream directly from S3. I was wondering if it’s possible to make a thumbnail generator with wowza, or at least have it pull out a frame at certain points from a file on s3? There are thumbnail generators out there but they’d require that I copy the whole video file to the server to get the thumbnails.

Thanks for the help!

Ryan

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Gendler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sam\_Gendler](https://community.wowza.com/u/Sam_Gendler)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/thumbnail-generator/382/2 "2009-03-19T23:49:55Z")

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I don’t have a link handy, but if you search the rest of the foum, someone from wowza (Charlie?) posted some code at one point that shows how to extract a keyframe as an image via a module running within wowza, so you could pull the thumbnails as the stream records/plays. You’ll then have to upload them to S3 yourself in the background.

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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Morris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Ryan\_Morris](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ryan_Morris)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/thumbnail-generator/382/3 "2009-04-06T19:53:27Z")

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Thanks for the link.

If you (or anyone else) is interested, I’d like to hire someone to help solve that problem for me with Wowza - I need to get something that pulls thumbnails from the videos - that are streamed from S3 (vods3) - at intervals and then saves them to S3. I think this should be possible? I think Wowza is the right tool to do this and there isn’t another piece of software that can do it more easily?

I’ll pay whatever a fair amount is if someone can do that?

Thanks very much anyone who’s interested!

Ryan

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Gendler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sam\_Gendler](https://community.wowza.com/u/Sam_Gendler)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/thumbnail-generator/382/4 "2009-03-19T23:57:27Z")

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Lots of useful code in here: [http://community.wowza.com/t/-/38](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/38)