Generate preview image from Video file

Question

Is there a way in PHP given a video file   mov   mp4  to generate a thumbnail image preview

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Two ways come to mind    Using a command-line tool like the popular ffmpeg  however you will almost always need an own server  or a very nice server administrator   hosting company  to get that Using the  screenshoot  plugin for the LongTail Video player that allows the creation of  manual screenshots that are then sent to a server-side script

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Solution  1  Older   not recommended   Firstly install ffmpeg-php project  http   ffmpeg-php sourceforge net    And then you can use of this simple code    lt  php  frame   10   movie    test mp4    thumbnail    thumbnail png     mov   new ffmpeg movie  movie    frame    mov- gt getFrame  frame   if   frame         gd image    frame- gt toGDImage        if   gd image            imagepng  gd image   thumbnail           imagedestroy  gd image           echo   lt img src     thumbnail    gt              gt    Description  This project use binary extension  so file  It s very old and last update was for 2008  So  maybe don t works with newer version of FFMpeg or PHP     Solution  2  Update 2018   recommended   Firstly install PHP-FFMpeg project  https   github com PHP-FFMpeg PHP-FFMpeg   just run for install  composer require php-ffmpeg php-ffmpeg   And then you can use of this simple code    lt  php require  vendor autoload php     sec   10   movie    test mp4    thumbnail    thumbnail png     ffmpeg   FFMpeg FFMpeg  create     video    ffmpeg- gt open  movie    frame    video- gt frame FFMpeg Coordinate TimeCode  fromSeconds  sec     frame- gt save  thumbnail   echo   lt img src     thumbnail    gt      Description  It s newer and more modern project and works with latest version of FFMpeg and PHP  Note that it s required to proc open   PHP function

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I recommend php-ffmpeg library      Extracting image       You can extract a frame at any timecode using the   FFMpeg Media Video  frame method       This code returns a FFMpeg Media Frame instance corresponding to the   second 42  You can pass any FFMpeg Coordinate TimeCode as argument    see dedicated documentation below for more information     frame    video- gt frame FFMpeg Coordinate TimeCode  fromSeconds 42     frame- gt save  image jpg      If you want to extract multiple images from the video  you can use the following filter    video     - gt filters       - gt extractMultipleFrames FFMpeg Filters Video ExtractMultipleFramesFilter  FRAMERATE EVERY 10SEC    path to destination folder        - gt synchronize      video     - gt save new FFMpeg Format Video X264      path to new file      By default  this will save the frames as jpg images   You are able to override this using setFrameFileType to save the frames in another format    frameFileType    jpg      either  jpg    jpeg  or  png   filter   new ExtractMultipleFramesFilter  frameRate   destinationFolder    filter- gt setFrameFileType  frameFileType     video- gt addFilter  filter

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