How can I take a snapshot of the first frame of a video hosted on some website like youtube etc. I know that I can use ffmpeg api to do this if the video is on my own server. But what if the video is stored on some other website. Can it be done at all?
Ok, I found a solution for you tube, it provides an API to do that 😉
But that's really simple. What I am trying to do is a generic solution that takes a URL of any video hosting site and gimme the snapshot of the video box.
