display a frame from a video file?

[fishea]

hi, anyone know how I might use PHP to display a single frame from a video file? so I'd be able to do something like:

showframe.php?file=movie.mpg&frame=1066

or

showframe.php?file=movie.mpg&start=1066&end=1072

... what I'm doing absolutely has to work with MPEG files, but preferably I'd like to be able to use anything. the gd library doesn't support these video files, but programs like vlc, mplayer, and ffmpeg do. anyone do this sort of thing before? any ideas?

thanks much

-fish

[Mordecai]

You can write a program that fetches a single frame and then output it, and call this from exec(). There are no PHP extensions that I know of that can use MPEGs.