Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be converting mp4 video to images at custom time using takeScreenshots() method in node.js. All the full source code of the application is shown below.
Get Started
In order to get started you need to make a new node.js project using the below command as shown below
npm init -y
After that you need to install the below dependencies using the below command as shown below
npm i fluent-ffmpeg
After that you need to make the index.js file and copy paste the following code
index.js
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const ffmpeg = require("fluent-ffmpeg"); ffmpeg({ source: "./video.mp4" }) .on("filenames", (filenames) => { console.log("Created file names", filenames); }) .on("end", () => { console.log("Job done"); }) .on("error", (err) => { console.log("Error", err); }) .takeScreenshots( { filename: "example.jpg", timemarks: [2, 4], }, "images" ); |
As you can see we are importing the fluent-ffmpeg library and then we are loading the video.mp4 file and then we are taking the screenshot or thumbnail of the video file at certain seconds using the takeScreenshots() method. And then we are passing the object in which we are passing the filename as well. And we have various events we are listening on for starting and end and also for error events as well.
And now if you execute the node.js script this will create the images folder where the screenshots are taken as shown below
node index.js
