when you disable "cache external media", video thumbnails off of remote
instances do not get generated. misskey has a videoThumbnailGenerator config
option to point to an external service to make that happen, but they do
not provide any kind of implementation (or any documentation beyond a
comment on the config file)
this provides a video thumbnail generator that uses the same thumbnail
generation code path used in local files, providing a quick and dirty
solution to instances that want video thumbnails without the need to store
external media permanently
the eventual goal of this is to be the fallback implementation when that
config option is unset.
the current implementation is extremely bare bones and performs no caching
or any other optimizations whatsoever
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