How to get thumbnail snapshot of video and pdf file in php

Question

Can anyone help me out that how i can display video and pdf file as thumbnail?? Thanks..............

Answer 1

For the PDF you can use Imagick.

How it's done is here in great detail

For the video snapshot, you can use FFMPEG. Here's an example code.

// this will create many images
$thumb = exec("ffmpeg -i video.mpg image%d.jpg");

Answer 2

Use ImageMagick's PHP class. Supports both video and PDF.