Do you know a jQuery plugin for video file upload?

Question

I need a jQuery plugin for uploading video files. it should generate some pictures out of movie as it is uploading ( not after the file uploaded ). Do you know such a plugin? if there is no plugin with this feature, can you suggest me some tutorials or articles about doing such a thing?

Answer 1

In My Opinion you cannot find a uploading plugins based on its extension. Like Document uploader, Image uploader, video uploader, game uploader, sql uploader. This is not a genuine question, instead you can a uploader script to upload all these. And what you decide to do, or how you decide to present the uploaded file, its up to you.

Here is a plugin, for all in one purpose

Uploadify

http://www.uploadify.com/

However here are some links which can help

http://blog.amnuts.com/2007/06/22/create-a-random-thumbnail-of-a-video-file/

http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=38774.0

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/1371.htm

Answer 2

You can't (as of this answer) do this in JavaScript, it's forbidden from touching the file like this (for hopefully obvious security reasons). You can find a flash based solution, maybe, but video editing is still a very intensive thing. For thumbnails, you're best off doing this server-side.

Your comment dismisses this because it's "time and resource consuming"...trust me, you doing this server-side correctly and returning a few KB in thumbnails is far faster than flash opening and playing with a video to get thumbnails (then uploading those too). Also consider it from a security standpoint, it's consistent and prevents your uploader from sending fake thumbnails that don't match the video at all.