EZthumb uses ffmpeg to scan a video file, take a bunch of screenshot-like samples, resize them to thumbnail-size, then makes a contact sheet/montage image from them, along with some technical info about the video (size, length, resolution, codecs) in text in the upper-left corner. It's handy for people who share videos online, so others can preview the video's content and quality prior to downloading it, as well as for those with a large video collection as it helps them to keep track of which video is which, in case they forget, without having to open them in a media player. EZthumb comes with a GUI and can also be run as a command-line utility. Here's an example from its SourceForge web page:
After testing the first successful builds, I realized that they were missing a menu entry and icon, plus the man page, so I went back and made sure those were installed, as well as a PDF help file in /usr/share/doc/ezthumb.
The menu entry is only in English, so if anyone wants to help improve it to include other languages, here's the relevant part of ezthumb.desktop file:
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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Ezthumb
GenericName=Video Thumbnailer
Comment=Create thumbnails of videos