feat: Support for thumbnails.

[dheerajdlalwani]

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[dheerajdlalwani]

Hey @chiraglulla

I am planning to pick this up, and will be clubbing this issue with #63 because I feel thumbnails would go great with the Grid view UI wise.

What do you think?

Also, we have 3-4 options for the thumbnail.

1. We take the first frame of of the video and extract that as the thumbnail
2. Take the 1st 50 or so frames and pick one frame at random.
3. letting the users upload their own thumbnail.

What do you think?

I also am considering a default thumbnail for existing videos + for videos where we couldn't extract the thumbnail.

[chiraglulla]

Regarding the clubbing of 2 issues, I would say go with atomic issues, close them and move forward. Let's achieve our discussed milestone step by step.

1. We take the first frame of the video and extract that as the thumbnail -- good initial implementation
2. Take the 1st 50 or so frames and pick one frame at random -- instead of random selection, we can display the 50 frames or so to the user in a decent UX and let them choose from all.
3. letting the users upload their own thumbnail -- eventually this has to be there, sure.

I also am considering a default thumbnail for existing videos + for videos where we couldn't extract the thumbnail.
-- Can't we process them separately now and get the thumbnail resource out of it?

[dheerajdlalwani]

Alrighty, that makes sense.
Will pick up only thumbnail for now and going with our first iteration: Will pick up the first frame from the video.

about thumbnails for the existing videos, yes that was the plan -> running a separate script to extract thumbnails for existing videos, but by the time we do that, they will have the existing default thumbnails.

[chiraglulla]

Cool.

[dheerajdlalwani]

Alrighty, I'll raise a draft PR right way.

[chiraglulla]

Not sure if it applies here.
But try to develop this feature as a feature flag.