Posted by Rik on 08/25/07 19:40

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:58:00 +0200, Patrick <patrick@frii.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to get the first image of an AVI file from my PHP script.
>
> I need it to dynamically create a catalog of my multimedia files (jpeg,
> avi) and to display a thumbnail for each file (it is easy for the image
> files but I don't know how to do this for video files).
>
> Thanks for your help.

I'd use any of numerous third party command line video programs to do so
(I think mplayer could do it, there may be more effective ones). Seeing
some video files fade in I'd take the frame after 0.5 or 1 seconds though.
--
Rik Wasmus

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