[Red5] About streaming " on demand " ... ffmpeg-php thumbnails

[hank williams]

Being able to ask the server for a jpeg of a random point in a stream
in a thumbnail size (or any size actually) would be an incredibly
powerful feature to add. I think a large number of projects would find
it useful because in hanging out on the flashcomm mailing list it
comes up all the time. Perhaps there could be a function that would
autogenerate a jpeg for any video, when created or edited and place
the jpeg in the same directory as the video, but with a jpg extension
instead of the flv extension.

This would be incredibly cool.

Regards
Hank

On 7/1/06, Igor Sazhnev <rattygl at mail.ru> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > Regarding a screenshot or thumbnail generated on the server-side...
>
> Also, its possible to use slightly another approach (but not sure how to  implement this in Red5):  you can write a server script (even in php), which will send to flash only first keyframe (with headers of course) and when close connection. On client side you can use ns.play in usual way, then catch Net.Stop event and close connection. Worked excellent for me and very simple. Maybe someone can find this interesting to implement as feature in Red5?
>
> Igor Sazhnev
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