Azure Media Services V3 : How to extract Image/Thumbnail/Poster from the Video?

Question

Hello,

From the documentation I have seen so far, it looks like creating Thumbnails is supported in AMS V2, but not yet in V3.

I want to create a preview image/poster/thumbnail from the encoded video, to use it to show as a background image in the Azure Media Player before playing the video.

I have seen multiple threads asking to "set" image as "poster" attribute, but I want to know how do I create a representative image of my video to set it as a poster in the first place.

Appreciate any help!

Answer 1

Hi,

Thanks for raising the issue. We will investigate and update you.

Answer 2

Hi,

Creating thumbnails is supported in AMS V3.

See this document that shows a custom Transform in v3 that encodes the video and produces thumbnails as part of the same Job.

Please let me know if this helps!

Answer 3

I think you forgot to post the link.

Could you please share that link?

Answer 4

Please see this document. Thanks