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Is it common to call these sprites in British English? I would call them "thumbnails".
by EE84M3i 2y ago
Is it common to call these sprites in British English? I would call them "thumbnails".
- wmf 2y agoThe term "sprite" is mostly used in games. A single image file that contains multiple sub-images is called a "sprite sheet". (This reduces overhead compared to loading a large number of image files.) In this case they happen to be video thumbnails.
- allenu 2y agoI'll admit I was expecting an explanation of how to extract sprites from retro video game footage using FFmpeg, which I can see totally being possible with a bit of work.
- dlcarrier 2y agoI was thinking the opposite: Using FFmpeg as a sprite engine, to move sprites around, over background layers Overlaying them at fixed positions is trivially easy, but animating the movement may take some work.
- steelcm 2y agoMaybe thumbnail sprite sheet is a more accurate term? I would have thought thumbnail on it's own doesn't represent the fact we're stitching together all the thumbnails of the video into a single image.