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ffmpeg bash script to generate thumbnails for all videos in a folder
for f in *.mov; do ffmpeg -y -i "$f" -f image2 -ss 10 -vframes 1 -an "${f%.mov}.jpg"; done
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mezcalf commented Apr 15, 2015

for subdirectories:
find . -name "*.mp4" -type f -execdir sh -c 'ffmpeg -y -i "$0" -ss 10 -vframes 1 "${0%.mp4}.jpg"' {} ;

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Hi, for subdirectories I have

find: missing argument to `-execdir'

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