About your Video2Gif API

[jolav]

About your Video2Gif API

[jolav-old-account]

Can I get a 5 to 10 sec gif from a video and make it a thumbnail like on youtube?

I thought that a thumbnail was a single image although I do not see any problem in using a animated gif as a thumbnail.

You can set => frames 1, start X ,duration 1. You will get a gif with only one frame in order to use it as a thumbnail

If that is the case, can the file be larger and restrict the output size prior to upload or through api?

Right now API needs the full video uploaded.
I must investigate about a workaround for this

I have a website with a bunch of videos, but they all have boring plain video camera icons
Any ideas?

It depends.
Video formats ? quantity ? average size per video ?
If you are talking about TBs of data i think your better option is running a script to create thumbails from video using ffmpeg
Create a thumbnail image every X seconds of the video

Thanks for your feedback. I had not noticed about thumbnails but now i will work on it.
Regards