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help me out: grab the thumbnail of video from the url
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:00 am
by jd6th
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!
Re: help me out: grab the thumbnail of video from the url
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:23 am
by John Cartwright
ffmpeg-php is your friend
Re: help me out: grab the thumbnail of video from the url
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:41 am
by jd6th
thanks for the quick reply! i'll check that out

Re: help me out: grab the thumbnail of video from the url
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:45 am
by jd6th
what i need is, getting the thumbnail from the link posted by the user either from youtube or vimeo...
Re: help me out: grab the thumbnail of video from the url
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:49 am
by josh
Find out how they format their video file URLs and open an http request then