How can one ensure that video thumbnails are displayed correctly in a PHP gallery?

To ensure that video thumbnails are displayed correctly in a PHP gallery, you can use a library like FFmpeg to generate thumbnails from the video files. By extracting frames from the video and saving them as images, you can then display these images as thumbnails in your gallery. 

// Path to the video file
$videoPath = 'path/to/video.mp4';

// Path to save the thumbnail image
$thumbnailPath = 'path/to/thumbnail.jpg';

// Create a new ffmpeg instance
$ffmpeg = FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create();

// Open the video file
$video = $ffmpeg->open($videoPath);

// Extract a frame from the video at the specified time (e.g., 5 seconds)
$frame = $video->frame(FFMpeg\Coordinate\TimeCode::fromSeconds(5));

// Save the frame as an image
$frame->save($thumbnailPath);

// Display the thumbnail image in your gallery
echo '<img src="' . $thumbnailPath . '" alt="Thumbnail">';

Keywords

video thumbnails PHP gallery image processing GD library file permissions

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