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[csnyder]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM, tedd <tedd at sperling.com> wrote:
> At 3:38 PM -0400 9/17/08, Ajai Khattri wrote:
>>
>> Is there any way to generate a thumbnail image of a Flash movie (SWF) in
>> PHP?
>>
>> --
>> A
>
>
> Yep, there is a way -- I've seen it done. But, I didn't do I myself and I
> don't have a reference for you. But, it IS possible.
>

If nothing else, you could go the Rube Goldberg route: script to open
movie in browser window, take screenshot of browser window, then
resize the resulting image and return the thumbnail.

For your sake, I hope there's a library (or maybe a 3rd party service
with an api) that just does it directly.