How can PHP be used to save the first image of a video clip for display in a video gallery?

To save the first image of a video clip for display in a video gallery using PHP, you can use the ffmpeg library to extract the thumbnail from the video file. This can be achieved by running a command line ffmpeg command within your PHP script to generate the thumbnail image. Once the thumbnail is generated, you can then save it to a specific directory and display it in your video gallery. 

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

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

// Run ffmpeg command to extract thumbnail from video
exec("ffmpeg -i $videoPath -ss 00:00:01 -vframes 1 $thumbnailPath");

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

Keywords

PHP video clip image extraction video gallery file handling

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