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I am looking for an open source C/C++ image/video thumbnail generation libraries.

(other than ffmpeg or DevIL)

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Try ffmpegthumbnailer:

This thumbnailer was designed to be as fast and lightweight as possible. The only dependencies are ffmpeg, libpng and libjpeg.

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Will Image Magick work? It is quite a capable library with C++ (and C) bindings. It does support grabbing still frames from some video formats, see here. It's a command-line example, but should work from the API as well.

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Image Magick is fine, but it does not support video thumbnail generation AFAIK. –  Eli Ben-Ami Sep 3 '09 at 18:05
What format are your videos in? ImageMagick does support some AVI formats. –  Matthew Talbert Sep 3 '09 at 18:43
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