video thumbnails in PHP

[scorpion]

Is there a php library or perl library that can make thumbnails from video clips on the server?

[hakre]

- windows or linux?
- which file formats should be supported?

[scorpion]

on linux, .avi clips compressed with divx.

[hakre]

maybe avifile [avifile.sourceforge.net] is a good start. that's how i came over to transcode [theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de] which is commandline driven and that way useable by php. it even has an export option to imagemagick, which should make it defenetly simple to create .jpeg or .png files.

a practical solution how to use can be found in the section called splitting a movie into frames [theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de]. it seems to be a good idea to use the imagemagick variation.

[hakre]

i found even another thingy which seems to need PHP with GD Support enabled. it's here [allbrand.nu].

haven't tested it, so i don't know, this is from their page:

Supports jpeg, gif, png, wbmp and video files

and it's a thumbnailer proggy.

[scorpion]

do you know if transcode can process divx compressed clips and also if it can extract say 1 frame from some position as opposed to all of them? Basically I just want to get one or two frames from a divx compressed clip