Thumbnail generator

This sample Django application is used to create thumbnails from video files.

Requirements

• Docker
• docker-compose

Running

In order to run application execute command docker-compose -f docker-compose-local.yaml up

Application workflow

• Use form provided in landing page, upload sample video. Application will redirect to detail view of uploaded video.

• Use form to generate thumbnail for video.

• threshold is option used to detect fade-outs. Default is set to 15.

• limit is a parameter used to find all frames with mean value of all pixels greater than said limit.

Explanation

• As a non-empty frame I consider a frame that is not below a certain threshold of the average darkness of pixels in a given image frame
• Script takes last 10% of all frames.
• I am monitoring a fade out by checking a 15 point threshold in mean frame values