How to create thumbnails or preview for videos?

Question

i want to display thumbnails or preview panels for videos listed on my site, i want to fetch a single frame from a video (from a particular time i.e get a frame of exactly a

Answer 1

In modern browsers you can also use the video tag and canvas to capture a frame and save it as an image.

see How can we get the screenshot of the video in html5 using canvas

Answer 2

Adding to how to use the ffmpeg answer, this is the parameters you're looking for:

ffmpeg  -itsoffset -4  -i test.avi -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320x240 test.jpg

Answer 3

Take a look at the ffmpeg-php library. It's the only simple way to manipulate videos of different formats in PHP.

There's also a wrapper called PHP Video Toolkit, you can find it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpvideotoolkit/