How to extract an Image from a video using FFMPEG and Node.JS
<p>Sometimes we need to execute some tasks that aren’t as usual, such as we have a video and we need to get a thumbnail from that. In this article, we will use FFmpeg and Node.JS with Javascript to accomplish that.</p>
<p>First of all, ensure that you have the FFmpeg, if you have a Debian-like distribution, you can use the APT. FFmpeg is a powerful tool for the processing of audio and video.</p>
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sudo apt install ffmpeg</pre>
<p>Otherwise, you can access this <a href="https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-linux" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">link</a> and download and install the package for your operating system.</p>
<p>Now let's import the spawn function from the Node.JS child process module.</p>
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