# Ffmpeg-ruby first release : Now extracting thumbnails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ffmpeg-ruby-first-release-now-extracting-thumbnails/150761>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 12, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ffmpeg-ruby-first-release-now-extracting-thumbnails/150761 "2008-10-12T20:45:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![gwik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/90ced4/32.png) [@gwik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gwik)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ffmpeg-ruby-first-release-now-extracting-thumbnails/150761/1 "2008-10-12T20:45:29Z")

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ffmpeg-ruby is a ruby C extension binding to ffmpeg/libav\* library.

It’s main purpose is to extract frame in order to make video  
thumbnails.  
It also give access to main video attributes (frame rate, bit rate,  
duration, codecs, …)

So, I does not do video encoding (at least for now).

I’ve been working on this for some time now but I finally took the  
time to clean and package it

[So here it is version 0.1.0](http://github.com/gwik/ffmpeg-ruby)

You can checkout the code with git :

```
git clone git://github.com/gwik/ffmpeg-ruby.git

```

Here is a example of what it can do : [creating an animated gif from a  
video]([GitHub - gwik/ffmpeg-ruby: Ruby interface to the ffmpeg C library. It is able to extract images from videos but do not allow to encode full video.](http://github.com/gwik/ffmpeg-ruby/tree/master/)  
animated\_gif\_example.rb)