How to convert uploaded video and get a screenshot from this file?

Question

I\'m building a cms and I want users to be able to upload videos but I\'m not familiar with video upload & conversion. Is there an example or has anybody coded a solution li

Answer 1

I've used ffmpeg, but I found it easier to just use the pre-compiled .exe version. So in the backend, I would just launch ffmpeg.exe with the required command-line arguments to do the conversion, let it run and when it was finished the completed file was all ready to go.