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[Artur Marnik]

csnyder wrote:
> 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.
> _______________________________________________


You can use http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
great tool I used it but you need a ssh access to your box to compile 
the binary (I am using 1and1 and I compiled it without root privileges)

I used to use this script:

<?
$script_path = "/kunden/homepages/16/xxx/htdocs/ffmpeg";
$flv_path = "/kunden/homepages/16/xxx/htdocs/";
$jpg_path = "/kunden/homepages/16/xxx/htdocs/jpg/";
$filename = "test.flv";
$seconds = 10;
$image_name = "frame";

for ($i = 0; $i <= $seconds $i++) {
     $command = $script_path."/ffmpeg -i ".$flv_path."/".$filename.
		" -ss ".$i." -vframes 1 -f gif -pix_fmt rgb24".
		$jpg_path."/".$image_name."_".$i.".gif";
     echo $command."<BR>\n";
     exec($command);
}

echo "done\n\n";
?>

it will give you 10 frames (every 1 second) starting form the beginning 
of the movie
it worked great but I don't remember why I used .gif instead of .jpg :) 
maybe on 1and1 some jpeg library was missing

Artur