create thumbnails from big movies with FFmpeg takes too long

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I'm using this shell command to make thumbnail from VIDEO_FILE from 123 second and save it to THUMBNAIL_FILE. ``` ffmpeg -i VIDEO_FILE -r 1 -ss 123 -f image2 THUMBNAIL_FILE ``` It works, but it is really slow for big movies. Is there any way to make it a little faster?

Accepted Answer

it has happened to me also, changing the argument order fixes this problem. tested on a 1.4GB 90 minute mp4 video - took about 1-2 seconds. before that it took MINUTES...

try this:

```
ffmpeg -ss 123 -i "VIDEO_FILE" "THUMBNAIL_FILE" -r 1 -vframes 1 -an -vcodec mjpeg
```

create thumbnails from big movies with FFmpeg takes too long

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