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I would like to generate thumbnails for a video file from the command line. Does anyone know which command Smplayer use to generate the thumbnails found in the Gui? Is that a mplayer or ffmpeg command? All the default options would be fine. If this is the wrong place, maybe bump me in the right direction.

SMPlayer runs mplayer (or mpv) several times to extract frames from the video and then it joins them in big image.
But I think there's no option to get a image of thumbnails directly from mplayer or mpv.

Thank you. Are there any other commandline utilities that can achive aproximately the same result? (an image grid of the videofile)

There is a program called MTN or MovieThumbnailer that can create a contact sheet of any size video in less than one-second. It uses FFmpeg as the driving engine. You can drag&drop a single video, several videos, or an entire folder on the exe to create any number of thumbnail contact sheets. A better way to use it is to drag&drop onto a batch file that sets your own custom parameters for the sheets, such as the number of thumbnails per page, columns, rows, sheet size, etc. I assume it supports commandline usage, as well.

SourceForge seems to be down at the moment, but when it returns...

movie thumbnailer (mtn)
http://moviethumbnail.sourceforge.net
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/moviethumbnail/

I'll post the batch file if needed.