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We use a modified webkit2png, along with some ruby and erlang RPC stuff, to take thumbnails of flash videos at vodpod.com. It works great!
by aphyr 17y ago
We use a modified webkit2png, along with some ruby and erlang RPC stuff, to take thumbnails of flash videos at vodpod.com. It works great!
- deno 17y agoWouldn’t something like getting the actual video file (flv or h.264) be a simpler approach? I mean don’t you have to have some kind of sandboxing etc. since you are executing unknown code (swf)?
- aphyr 17y agoOh, believe me, I'd love to. The difficulty, however, is that extracting H264 or FLV streams from embed codes is a process that every video host is actively attempting to thwart--and there's some 15,000 of them, and one of me. :)