Generating a thumbnail preview, of a video using PHP
Posted on March 16th, 2009 in Linux, PHP | No Comments »
This is just a one liner as my class uses lots of method etc that you probably don’t need.
The money shot is this:
if (! file_exists ( $thumb_dir . $thumbname )) {
$draw_thumb = shell_exec ( $this->ffmpeg . ' -y -i ' . $video_file . ' -f image2 -ss 10 -vframes 1 -an ' . $thumb_dir . $thumbname );
}
($this->ffmpeg = the location of the ffmpeg binary)
This will generate a thumbnail of the video at 10 seconds.
