[wp-hackers] Thumbnails for Locally Hosted Videos?

[Otto]

n Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
> "Daniel Torreblanca" <regulatethis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you're on a debian-based system or anything with a
>> decent package manager: "apt-get install ffmpeg" is
>>  all it takes ;)
>
> And when the site is hosted on Windows...? ;-)
>
> (Seriously, I've got a client who decided to host using Apache on Windows!)

a) You get the guy into a good psychiatrist program.
b) Failing that: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ffmpeg


The WordPress Video Solution Framework (what they use for the video
stuff on wp.com) uses shell calls to the ffmpeg program to get
thumbnails. See here:
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpresscom-video-server/trunk/server/plugin/video/video-transcoder.php#L315