Generating high-quality thumbnails from videos

  • Cool, but if only Apple could get their video thumbnails on macOS to use the same frame as their video thumbnails on iOS, it would be a huge step forward. Should not even be hard, no AI needed. It's absolutely nuts that this has been broken for so many years.

  • This is a CLI Rust tool for that: https://github.com/yury/cidre/blob/main/cidre/examples/vn-th...

    Maybe somebody will find it useful.

  • I wonder if this will work on a mac that can’t ever phone home to Apple to download models.

    Apple has this horrible tendency of not actually shipping things inside the OS these days, and instead downloading them at runtime. Examples include rosetta/commandline tools, local speech recognition models, dictionaries, and USB connection device support for new iOS devices.

    I want to be able to use all of the features without iCloud and without HTTP requests to the mothership (or without internet at all).

  • This is quite cool. I believe they use the same system to choose photos for memories and wallpaper suggestions. And it works well - what they choose really looks great!

    Would be interested in the tech behind that (surely machine learning will be involved somehow).

  • Anyone know if there is something similar in the cloud? Like an API based thing? Seems like a nice feature for a CMS

  • Does this do anything ffmpeg can’t do?

  • Great gift for YouTubers