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Sep 25.2009

I am working on a site that people can submit the video’s link. Then I just embed it. However, I want to get the thumbnail of the videos without saving the videos in my server. So that when I list the vidoes, I can use the thumbnails instead of embedding all videos.

My serve uses PHP. Assume the video is in SWF format.

is there anything in the or tag that I can ‘grap’ the thumbnail? or in PHP, is there anything that I can remotely get the thumbnail (or a frame ) of the remote video?

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@criterion9Sep 25.2009 — Are thumbnails already being created on the external server? If so does the player include a unique id that could be used to extrapolate the thumbnail url to be pulled over to your server?
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@seatoskyhkauthorSep 25.2009 — most likely no. the external server only contains the video clip.


I know I can down the video and get the thumbnail using a PHP function. however, that will impose long wait time (need to download the entire video) and also include network traffic to the server. so, i'm looking for just 'read' the video in the external server and get one frame / screenshot of the video for the thumbnail to store in local server.
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