Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words.
Questions tagged [thumbnails]
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Pure CSS image thumbnails
I want to display a collection of image thumbnails in a grid. The images will come in a variety of sizes, but I'd like to restrict the thumbnails to a particular size (let's say 200px wide and 150px tall).
What I'd like to find are some magical HTML…

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How to get video thumbnail from YouTube URL and set it to image view in android
I want to create an application in which I want to play YouTube video. I want to get thumbnail from YouTube video URL which I have currently play in application and set it to image view. can any body help me with this.

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get Thumbnail image from wikimedia commons
I do have a filename from wikimedia commons and I want to access the thumbnail-image directly.
Example: Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg
I found a way to get json-data containing the url to the thumbnail I…

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Thumbnail image of video
I am selecting video clip from library. And i want to create thumbnail image of it. I have applied this code. But the image appeared rotated. I want its original view.
- (UIImage*)testGenerateThumbNailDataWithVideo {
AVURLAsset *asset =…

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Thumbnail Metadata Disappeared When Importing File with Copy to App
I have been using the URL Resources to embed the thumbnail metadata into my custom document-based file. When I export my custom document file, the thumbnail shows up nicely when glanced in iOS Files app.
override func fileAttributesToWrite(to url:…

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how to generate video thumbnail in node.js?
I am building an app with node.js, I successfully uploaded the video, but I need to generate a video thumbnail for it. Currently I use node exec to execute a system command of ffmpeg to make the thumbnail.
exec("C:/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg -i Video/" +…

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Android: how to get a video thumbnail of a file that's private to your application?
Question:
How do you get a video thumbnail for an application-private file?
Specifically, is there a way to extract video frames from an .mpeg file directly?
Background:
My application includes a camera that can record video.
For product reasons,…

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MVC3/Razor thumbnail/resize image ideas?
Is there an easy and dynamic way to create thumbnails and resize images in MVC3/Razor? A helper, libary, anything?
It would be nice, if I somehow could manage the size of the images from the controller. Or even in razorview. Example: In the index…

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Attach custom thumbnail for a video (not extract) - IOS, AVFoundation
I generate video by using AVFoundation. After that I write video to the Photos library by using Photos Framework (and get instance of PHAsset after that).
I want to set custom thumbnail for added PHAsset (last frame from the video), but can't…

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How to get thumbnail of file using the Windows API?
I'm trying to get a thumbnail of a file in Windows API. I did find a way, but the code example requires Windows version 8 minimum, I would prefer a way that works in at least 7 or Vista, preferably in XP. If there is a platform independent way of…

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Square thumbnail from UIImagePickerViewController image
In my app the user selects an image or take a picture using UIImagePickerViewController. Once the image was selected I want to display its thumbnail on a square UIImageView (90x90).
I'm using Apple's code to create a thumbnail. The problem is the…

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Wordpress - Featured Image Meta Box not showing on custom post type
I just created a custom post type, but for some reason the Featured Image meta box isn't showing up.
It does show on the "posts" post type though.
I have enabled theme support for thumbnails and have added the following code in my custom post type…

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generating a screenshot of a website using jquery
I would like to generate a screenshot thumbnail of any given url using strictly javascript. If this can't be done can anyone point me in the right direction to do this with my own api?
edit I just decided to cheat and use frames because it was for…

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generateCGImagesAsynchronouslyForTimes sometimes don't generate entire thumbnails
I'm working on an OS X app that is using AVAssetImageGenerator.generateCGImagesAsynchronouslyForTimes, and it normally works fine. However, once in a while the thumbnail I get back only contains the first few rows of pixels, and the rest is green,…

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Coerce Windows to show a thumbnail for my custom file type
I want to use the windows OpenFileDialog class in C# to browse files for my application. I would then like the files to show up with previews in Windows' "thumbnails" view.
Is there a simple way to make this happen? I'm thinking there should be a…

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