ScaleEngine's bifs API endpoint provides Create, Read, Update and Delete functionality.
You can request frame size and interval for the scrubbing detail you want, on creation or update, and a read request will return the url of the bif.
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Here is a full clappr player example with thumbnail scrubbing using a BIF (base index frames) file. Note that these players are auto-generated in our control panel.
The player is actually calling a thumbnail plugin, but it's processing a bif, which is one file with many thumbnails concatenated together, which are displayed along the scrub bar if you mouse over, or manipulate your roku remote control.
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