What can I do with Hover Preview Sprites?

Use Hover Preview Sprites to add seek-time previews to your video player, helping viewers find the right moment before they click. It suits streaming sites, course platforms, and any player that wants a polished scrubbing experience.

What output does Hover Preview Sprites produce?

The tool returns sprite image sheets plus a WebVTT file that maps timestamps to each thumbnail. Hover Preview Sprites hands your player everything it needs for hover previews, with no extra indexing work on your side.

Example output

{
  "vtt": "https://cdn-us.eachlabs.ai/defaults/fd8bbe1decd4099c8aaa17e07c32d0d836fbbdb06ca3d5e4194db8dbaa29db62.bin",
  "sheet": "https://cdn-us.eachlabs.ai/defaults/1ff594036cb3c7668ee5cb9a05a8b08004ee84a03e1a66b394732054edb68ec1.jpg"
}

Hover Preview Sprites

Video → Video·Video-API·by Unified AI API for hundreds models. Access video, image, and audio generation from leading providers through one integration with eachlabs.

Hover Preview Sprites generates sprite sheets and a WebVTT index from a video, enabling hover-scrub thumbnail previews in your player timeline.

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API reference

Runtime (p50): 30s
Estimated price: $1.80 / unit

Call the API

prediction.sh

curl -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EACHLABS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "model": "hover-preview-sprites",
    "input": {
        "video": "https://cdn-us.eachlabs.ai/defaults/22a926ce238a4d3fb8ab37fec1a091a1.mp4",
        "grid_rows": 5,
        "grid_columns": 5,
        "interval_seconds": 2
    },
    "webhook_url": ""
}' \
  https://api.eachlabs.ai/v1/prediction/

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What are Hover Preview Sprites?

Hover Preview Sprites generates thumbnail sprite sheets and a matching WebVTT index from a video. On the each::labs Video API these assets power the small preview images viewers see when they hover or scrub along a player's progress bar.