ffmpeg-php to create thumbnail of video

Question

I am trying to use this script to create thumbnail of a video using ffmpeg. At first I used phpinfo(); and I found ffmpeg is installed on my se

Answer 1

Looked over the code, made it simpler and runnable, maybe this helps some of you.

class VideoTile
{
    public static function createMovieThumb($srcFile, $destFile = "test.jpg")
    {
        // Change the path according to your server.
        $ffmpeg_path = 'D:\\ffmpeg\\bin\\';

        $output = array();

        $cmd = sprintf('%sffmpeg -i %s -an -ss 00:00:05 -r 1 -vframes 1 -y %s', 
            $ffmpeg_path, $srcFile, $destFile);

        if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3) == 'WIN'))
            $cmd = str_replace('/', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $cmd);
        else
            $cmd = str_replace('\\', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $cmd);

        exec($cmd, $output, $retval);

        if ($retval)
            return false;

        return $destFile;
    }
}

Usage is

$file = VideoTile::createMovieThumb("../video3.mp4");