Seems like writing a script wrapper around ffmpeg could easily solve the first problem. All it needs to do is to read in JSON/YAML/TOML/etc. then parse them int

Seems like writing a script wrapper around ffmpeg could easily solve the first problem. All it needs to do is to read in JSON/YAML/TOML/etc. then parse them into command line equivalents and call ffmpeg. That is a kind of script pretty much any coding LLM could generate. I was watching a streamer trying to use ffmpeg in a streaming configuration and it didn't seem to work very well in that case. However, if someone was belligerent enough, I would guess it would be possible to use libavformat/libavcodec directly to parse out frames from video. For example, the streamer "sphaerophoria" posted a short series where he built a video editor from scratch [1]. I believe the code he wrote could be used as the basis for a custom-built editor to extract thumbnails from videos. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_hD99zpPBY&ab_channel=sphaerophoria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_hD99zpPBY&ab_channel=sphae...