Video thumbnails

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Jul 6, 2018, at 3:45 AM, Berthold Stoeger <bstoeger at mail.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> On Friday, 6 July 2018 12:31:27 CEST Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> 
>> The advantage of calling an app vs. linking against the libraries is that
>> for calling an app we need to tell the user how to do that, vs. for
>> shipping the libraries we need to build them on all the platforms,
>> integrate them into our package and deal with the potential licensing /
>> patent pain created by that. You can guess which way I'm leaning here :-)
> 
> Make it easy for the user, what else...? ;)
> 
> But seriously, let's land #1463 first. In a private branch I already have 
> connected this to a "VideoFrameExtractor". I just need to replace QMultimedia 
> by ffmpeg. Whether we use an executable [Windows is posix, so it does know the 
> concept of stdout, right?] or a library is then just a minor implementation 
> detail.
> 
> But give me a week or two, please.

Just to confirm - you don't consider #1463 ready to be pulled, you want to work
on it for a week or two, correct?

/D