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[nycphp-talk] make thumbs from video files

Roland Cozzolino rcozzol at optonline.net
Tue Oct 25 17:55:49 EDT 2005


This is not trivial and requires you to either manually learn some of 
the codecs or use plugin libraries.  I don't really think this is 
something php is well suited for a believe writing an app in something 
like C with some of the standard libraries compiled in would be best..

leegold wrote:

>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>Is there a way using PHP to make jpeg thumbs out of quicktime or windows
>>>>media files?
>>>>Preferably a batch job on a folder...
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>....snip...
>Check out an example at:  
>  
>
>>http://www.usenetbinaries.com/groups/alt.binaries.mpeg.videos/2005/10/24/h/1v.html
>>
>>Another video.google.com example would be www.youtube.com
>>
>>    
>>
>
>You would think there'd be a PHP class or script does does this...
>
>I looked thru the manual but doesn't seem like a function that does it
>out of the "starting gate"...
>
>Thanks,
>Lee G.
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