Video Thumbnails

ConqSoft · February 11th, 2005, 02:07 PM

Is there a way I can upload/assign a thumbnail image (other than the system default thumbnail) to a video that I have uploaded?

I've seen it discussed some, but I don't think it's a feature (yet), or I just can't find it.

KW802 · February 11th, 2005, 02:11 PM

There is not default feature yet and I don't recall seeing a hack for it yet either. I know Brian has been bugged for it a few times, though.

February 14th, 2005, 12:10 PM

Right now the only way would be to manually edit the image through the database, add the thumbnail name, and upload it to the proper folder. We should be able to create thumbnails for video files in a future version, but in order to do it *right* it's going to take some work, so I can't say when it will be added.

KW802 · February 14th, 2005, 12:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian

Right now the only way would be to manually edit the image through the database, add the thumbnail name, and upload it to the proper folder. We should be able to create thumbnails for video files in a future version, but in order to do it *right* it's going to take some work, so I can't say when it will be added.

Brian, did you mean to say "create" or "associate" thumbnails for videos?

ConqSoft · February 14th, 2005, 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KW802

Brian, did you mean to say "create" or "associate" thumbnails for videos?

Yeah, that makes a big difference.

February 14th, 2005, 12:47 PM

I did mean "create". I'll look into the ability to upload a thumbnail for video files as well though.

trackpads · February 15th, 2005, 10:59 AM

Cool! I know there are some programs that are supposed to be able to thumb video, that would be great in my case!!

Thanks!!!

BrentWilson · May 9th, 2005, 01:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trackpads

Cool! I know there are some programs that are supposed to be able to thumb video, that would be great in my case!!

Thanks!!!

Bump... would love to see this.

0ptima · May 9th, 2005, 07:45 PM

me too!

trackpads · May 12th, 2005, 07:15 PM

Me three

bamaster · July 26th, 2005, 09:58 PM

I just purchased the vBa Gallery. Excellent app!

I am hoping the video hosting secion on my site will take off, so the auto-thumnail feature is very appealing to me.

A friendly request to move forward with this feature for the next release.

mlucek · July 27th, 2005, 04:26 PM

There is a Gallery photo gallery hack/add-on that automagically extracts a given video frame and generates the corresponding thumbnail. I dunno how much work it'd be to incorporate that into vB adv gallery ??

Uses this library:

http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/

Description: ffmpeg-php is an extension for PHP that adds an easy to use, object-oriented API for accessing and retrieving information from video and audio files. It has methods for returning frames from movie files as images that can be manipulated using PHP's image functions. This works well for automatically creating thumbnail images from movies. ffmpeg-php is also useful for reporting the duration and bitrate of audio files (mp3, wma...). ffmpeg-php can access many of the video formats supported by ffmpeg (mov, avi, mpg, wmv...)