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Screenshot extraction of videos through PHP?

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:27 am
by phice
I've come across a website, http://www.filehero.com/ that easily takes screenshots of videos given the URL. Obviously they download the video, but what would you suggest they use to capture screenshots? Obviously it's on a 15-30 interval between each screenshot because depending on the length of the video will result in the number of screenshots.

I'm thinking that it's a linux/windows application that is run through shell and producing the jpg's.

What do you think? If I was correct, what application(s) would allow me to do this?

Many thanks.

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:19 am
by phpdevuk
I agree I would expect that they have some kind of server side software that does the processing, I've seen similar things before for generating thumbnails of websites. Have no idea of what you could use to do it though, try having a look on sourceforge for something that would do it most apps you can pass params to from php via things like exec etc.

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:29 am
by Weirdan

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:42 am
by phice
Fantastic. Thanks Weirdan.

I'll post my experiences if/when I get it working.

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:51 am
by phice
Do you happen to know if this can be used with PHP5?

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:34 pm
by nickman013
It should work with PHP5, no reason not to.