Have PHP create a thumbnail preview of flv file?

Discussion in 'PHP' started by wwwbryan, Apr 3, 2011.

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    Is that possible to do without ffmpeg? I need it to work on most servers. I have tried php4flv but I get nothing but errors when I try it on php4 or php5.
     
    wwwbryan, Apr 3, 2011 IP
  2. ngcoders

    ngcoders Active Member

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    Then you will need to parse the flv video data and make a thumbnail for it , haven't seen such a script yet, should not be easy either.

    Most hosting have a ffmpeg now , so you should not be worried. Also flv is just a container their might be different video formats in their requiring different set of coding.

    Not easy if you are thinking of writing one , else use ffmpeg ... just one line of code.
     
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    Using ffmpeg (and not every doing this in my life nor testing it), I'd figure it to work in this fashion based on the docs:

    <?php

// Set the media as a ffmeg_movie object instance.
$movie = new ffmpeg_movie('/path/to/media');

// Count the total frames in the media object.
$total_frames = $movie->getFrameCount();

// Get a random frame from the media (which returns a ffmpeg_frame object)
$frame = $movie->getFrame(mt_rand(1, $total_frames));

// Have the ffmpeg_frame object return it as a truecolor GD image.
$frame->toGDImage();
    PHP:
     
    JoelLarson, Apr 4, 2011 IP