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[nycphp-talk] make thumbs from video files

Kenneth Downs ken at secdat.com
Tue Oct 25 18:03:33 EDT 2005


Well don't forget though that PHP is a wonderful glue language, using
backtick and exec you can run any existing CLI interface to any known
library.

...if you're on linux of course.

> This is not trivial and requires you to either manually learn some of
> the codecs or use plugin libraries.  I don't really think this is
> something php is well suited for a believe writing an app in something
> like C with some of the standard libraries compiled in would be best..
>
> leegold wrote:
>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>Is there a way using PHP to make jpeg thumbs out of quicktime or
>>>>> windows
>>>>>media files?
>>>>>Preferably a batch job on a folder...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>....snip...
>>Check out an example at:
>>
>>
>>>http://www.usenetbinaries.com/groups/alt.binaries.mpeg.videos/2005/10/24/h/1v.html
>>>
>>>Another video.google.com example would be www.youtube.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>You would think there'd be a PHP class or script does does this...
>>
>>I looked thru the manual but doesn't seem like a function that does it
>>out of the "starting gate"...
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Lee G.
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