get screengrab from video file via script?

Forum|Forum|19 years ago
March 13, 2007
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I have a website called porkchopsandwich.com where myself and a few friends post funny videos. i have been thinking of a way to simplify the process of postign videos. right now one of the things that is a big pain is that for each video we do a frame grab and resize it to use as a thumbnail image on the site. right now we use window movie maker to do the frame grab and then resize it to the proper size using photoshop.

what i was thinking is that there must be some way that this coudl be accomplished via a CF scrpt. so that when i upload a video, the video file woudl be uploaded and then a jpg file woudl be generated of the first frame of the video. is there anyone who can suggest hwo to do this?

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Neo Rye

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http://www.opensourcecf.com/imagecfc/

http://www.alagad.com/index.cfm/name-aic

http://www.efflare.com/

Wait till CF 8 and it's native image manipulation.

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maxell

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You can do this pretty easily with ffmpeg (an open source video conversion tool). Just find a binary release and call it with cfexecute.
Here's a sample argument string that will create a jpg at a specified size:
-y -i test.mpg -vframes 1 -an -vcodec mjpeg -f rawvideo -s 320x240 test.jpg

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bdee2Author

Inspiring

cool - i will give it a shot.
now i am wondering if it is possible to have text overlayed on the frame grab (like the other ones from porkchopsandwich.com)

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maxell

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