how they can grap image preview from video clip sharing website?

[phpguru]

did you saw it?
http://ganges.com

i don't know how they can't do it, grap image preview of video clip from
metacafe.com and others...?

How can i do it?

[phpguru]

who can resolve this question
I think, perhaps we can get swf resource file and parse it, to grap the image thumbnail from the movie?

ex: http://images.metacafe.com/f/fvp/Emb...&embeddingURL=

However, i duno how can do it with php only :-?

[php_daemon]

You're php guru, you should now

Maybe read the contents of the page and use regular expressions to parse it.

[phpguru]

yep, just thank you so much.
but i have the problem with GIF file
swf file is encrypt, first, i don't known how can decrypt it, and what exactly is the seprate character between gif file and flash file

[phpguru]

who's can help me?

[rjm1982]

It's not just a simple matter of "getting the thumbnail"

They get the thumbnail while they are encoding the video.

Something like http://www.on2.com/products/flix/engine/

That software though, is expensive... like $3000+/year ... I just got done setting up a site to use it (www.airshowbuzz.com ... and dont look at me if you look at the source, i just built the video module, the whole site is built badly code-wise...)

Basically, its a linux CLI program along with a php library for it...you just run it from php giving it the source file (mpg,avi,flv ... etc) and it converts them to FLVs, and if you specify, it creates thumbnails.

I have yet to see any other server-side setup that does a decent job at all, so you don't have many options...

[phpguru]

okey. just thank you so much.
I just having more small question.
So how they can hack flv download link from many site?

ex:
http://www.music.com/video/?channel=...&clipid=877726

And here is result:

mms://a1313.v16544a.c16544.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1313/16544/v001/roomediaco1.download.akamai.com/16544/wm.roomedia/877/877726_300.wmv?clipId=877726&channel=Music+Videos& category=Music&site=musicdotcomg6%2fportal

So, i just writing small script to retrieve playing url from flash file
example: youtube ( so simple ) . But with some other sites, i don't know how to retrieve this link ( do it with PHP )

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