Title: Thumbnail names
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Thumbnail names

 *  [Fobstar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fobstar/)
 * (@fobstar)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-names/)
 * The process of generating thumbnails is working great for us but we need to streamline
   the filenames.Currently the format we see is: (videoname)_thumb(random number).
   jpg
 * How can we change this to add sequential numbers instead of random? IE (videoname)
   _thumb(1,2,3,4,5,etc).jpg
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-names/#post-5105042)
 * The number isn’t random, it’s timecode. If I remember correctly it’s not sequential
   because of the possibility that two different users are generating thumbnails
   for the same video at the same time. This way there’s no accidental overwriting
   because a particular frame of the video always has the same filename.
 * I assume you’re trying to access the thumbnails programmatically. Can you give
   me some specifics of your application? I can take you through the process of 
   hacking the plugin to do what you want but it’s also possible we can come up 
   with a simpler solution.
 * Are you using FFMPEG?

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-names/#post-5105042)
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