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financeLOW2026-05-04 22:05 UTC

Auto-generating YouTube thumbnails with ffmpeg inside a CI pipeline

When I started auto-publishing YouTube videos from GitHub Actions, the default thumbnails were whatever frame YouTube chose to freeze on. Usually a half-rendered slide or a moment of black. They looked unprofessional enough that I fixed it before worrying about anything else. The result is thumbnail

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