Video Thumbnail generator

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October 19, 2006
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I am trying to find a way to create a playlist of videos uploaded to a website. What I am trying to find out is, does Flash Media Server have a component that when a video is uploaded it will generate on the fly a jpg thumbnail of that video? What I am trying to do is create sometime (on a much smaller scale) as youtube. Will purchasing Flash Media Server help me accomplish that? Or does anyone know how youtube created their thumbnail images of the videos?

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harrisonford

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Hello,
Heres a tute on just the thing you are looking for
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_player.html

It creates video thumbs on the fly from an xml file which could of course be generated on the fly
Needs flash 8 to edit the fla but otherwise all files are external.

Hope this helps.

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Anonymous

No... FMS does not have such capabilities. You would need to use a program like ffmpeg to handle the thumbnail generation ( see article for example: http://www.db75.com/blog/archives/000176.html ). I would imagine youtube does something similar.

You can also show the first frame of a video with actionscript on the client side, by loading the video and stopping on the first keyframe.

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