Create Thumbnail from video

[papaface]

Hello,

I know this requires ffmpeg-php, but how do I actually do it with ffmpeg-php?

I know the site for it but I don't know how to do this.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

regards

[papaface]

Anyone?

[papaface]

Can nobody shed any light on this for me?

[taith]

as far as i'm aware, the GD librarys cannot work with video files... potentially animated gifs, but no movies

[papaface]

You can definately do this with ffmpeg-php. I just dont know how.

[TimGladieux]

The original thread was started and not answered some time ago,,, so...

since I actually surfed in here looking for a similar question...

Maybe this will help some one.

 

This is how you do it with ffmpeg and php:

 

function makeThumbnails($dir){

if (is_dir($dir))

{

if ($dh = opendir($dir))

{

while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false)

{

if($file != "." && $file != ".." && eregi(".mp4", $file))

{

$file='/'.$file;

$command = "ffmpeg -i " . $dir . $file . " -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320x240 -ss 00:00:10 " .  $dir . str_replace(".mp4", ".jpg", $file) ;

return exec("$command");

}//end if

}//end while

closedir($dh);

}//end if handle $dh

}//end if dir

return TRUE;

}//end function makeThumnails()

 

This of course will make a 320x240 jpg from a mp4 file from the frame 10sec into the movie

ffmpeg is quite powerful it will use pretty much any video container/codec, just change those parts.

 

(oh yeah the function returns a boolean and the while loop means it keeps doing it while there is another

movie in the dir to make a thumbnail for! I guess that's pretty obvious. If you take the "command" out and

run it in a terminal with the variables $dir and $file changed to indicate the movie, etc. it will just make one!)