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I want to add a UIImage in a tableview that shows a preview frame from a list of quicktime movies that are stored on a server. I have the URL to the actual movies on the server, but I'm not sure how to grab just one frame of each movie to include in the UITableview.

Thanks,

Rob

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Without actually downloading the file (or at least a portion of it), I don't think it would be possible to grab just one frame of the movie. Perhaps a server side process could generate the poster frames for you, and follow a naming convention to make it easy to extrapolate the poster frame's URL from the movie's URL.

Perhaps this question will help with extracting frames from the movies:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1859415/export-every-frame-as-image-from-a-movie-file-quicktime-api

GregInYEG