help me out: grab the thumbnail of video from the url

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jd6th
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help me out: grab the thumbnail of video from the url

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can someone help me how to grab the thumbnail of video from the url submitted? like in the facebook, when you post the url. a thumbnail will be displayed....

thanks!
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Re: help me out: grab the thumbnail of video from the url

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ffmpeg-php is your friend
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Re: help me out: grab the thumbnail of video from the url

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thanks for the quick reply! i'll check that out :D
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Re: help me out: grab the thumbnail of video from the url

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what i need is, getting the thumbnail from the link posted by the user either from youtube or vimeo...
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Re: help me out: grab the thumbnail of video from the url

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Find out how they format their video file URLs and open an http request then
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