Video Thumbnails in Java

I want to generate a thumbnail preview of videos in Java. I'm mostly JMF and video manipulation alienated.

• Is there an easy way to do it?
• What about codecs? Will I have to deal with it?
• Any video type is suported? (including Quicktime)

There seems to be a few examples out there that are far better than what I was going to send you.

See http://krishnabhargav.blogspot.com/2008/02/processing-videos-in-java.html.

I'd agree with Stu, however. If you can find a way to get what you want using some command-line tools (and run them using Commons-Exec), you might have a better overall solution than depending on what is essentially the Sanskrit of Java extensions.