how to save an image from video/quicktime video ?

Question

Hello is there a way in PHP to save an image from video/quicktime video ?

Answer 1

It's not possible in pure PHP. You would have to use an external command line tool like ffmpeg - but that makes the script less portable to other servers.

The only other idea that comes to mind is the Snapshot plugin to the LongTail Video player. With that, you can manually send snapshots of a video playing in the video player (an embeddable Flash player) to a server side script. The process can't be automated, though, and the video will need to be a FLV or MP4 one for this to work.