hi
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 after 1 min) and display them as thumbnails as in youtube...
Any help?
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A:
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/
Napolux
2010-02-15 11:39:35
Can i create thumbnails using ffmpeg-php? I was thinking that it can be used to convert videos to different formats... If it's possible , how can i do that? is there any predefined functions or methods available in ffmpeg?
kvijayhari
2010-02-15 11:42:43
Dwwnload the package and take a look at example02.php: there's the $toolkit->extractFrames() call that does exactly what you need... ;)You can easily modify the source code to extract only one frame at a given time.
Napolux
2010-02-15 12:03:32
Thanks Napolux. That helped me great. But would you mind explaining me , How can we improve the quality of the thumbnail picture?
kvijayhari
2010-02-15 13:10:48
Any answers for my comment? still curious to know...
kvijayhari
2010-03-18 06:57:36
A:
Try following this tutorial on PHP and ffmpeg, http://www.alberton.info/video_preview_as_animated_gif_with_ffmpeg_and_spl.html
kb
2010-02-15 11:44:36
A:
Apple QuickTime has the functionality to do this if you upgrade to the Pro version.
A:
check this answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2264840/thumbnail-of-video-in-php-while-uploading/2265169#2265169
Avinash
2010-02-15 12:42:02
A:
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
Cawas
2010-03-24 22:39:56