I am wondering would something like this work.. since I have two servers.. //Make thumbnail $moviefile = "rtmp://11.11.11.111/test/_definst_/test/video2.flv"; $mov = @new ffmpeg_movie("$moviefile"); $fname = "test"; $finalDir = "thumbs/"; $finalFile = str_replace( " ", "", $finalDir . $fname . ".jpg" ); $frame = "30"; $ff_frame = @$mov->getFrame($frame); if ($ff_frame) { $gd_image = $ff_frame->toGDImage(); if ($gd_image) { imagejpeg($gd_image, $finalFile, 30); imagedestroy($gd_image); } } Code (markup):