How do I create thumbnails from flash videos, like youtube?

iBuddy

cricher

I think youtube has many people working for it so probably do it manually.
or
it isnt done using php and probably in asp (i dont no the exact code....oranything near) it probably gets the amount of frames the file has, gets the first frame gets the last frame and gets the centre frame and using gd or something like that turns it into a jpg/gif what ever it is.

basically ull probs have to find some sort of template on the internet. or find away of contacting youtube and asking them.

iBuddy

there is no way they manually do that, everyone wants a site to be automated. I know screen shots from videos is possible so thats all im trying to do...create thumbnails from a FLV

cricher

kk, well it will probs be on something other than php

tht was just my input but i no tht if u want a screen shot from a digital video u have to seperate the frames and copy the ones u want, and it can be done manually i do it a lot

iBuddy

I have ffmpeg-php installed, I should be able to do it with that, it works for certain files. I have like 10 different videos uploaded with various file formats (mpeg, avi, flv) and flv does not work.

etully

What is the workflow? Do you receive FLV videos? Or do you receive MPEG / AVI files that you use to create FLV videos? Because if you have access to the MPEG / AVI videos, then you can use ffmpeg to snap the thumbnail before you create the FLV. That's how we do it.

iBuddy

Do you have a website up that your using ffmpeg-php?

I wanted to open a music video section which I will convert all videos to flv, so it would be all flv files.