Monday 18 October 2010 4:52:53 am

If you're not afraid to dive in php code:

- add an image attribute to your video class

- install ffmpeg

- create a custom event with a post-publish workflow that will take a snaphsot out of your flv video and upload it to the image attribute

The caveat is that generally editors prefer to be able to specify the thumbnail of the video, as the very 1st frame might not be very telling

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Tuesday 19 October 2010 1:30:33 pm

Hi Lo.

I have used ezvideoflv extension, and found it very useful. And yes, it can extract a screenshoot from the uploaded video. It can also convert videos to flv from almost every popular format (like for example quicktime and wmv). It also works great when combined with the multiupload extension

As for the trouble with installing it, try to post your problem here so maybe I can help.

And just a note, the extension has some bugs, which I reported here:

http://projects.ez.no/ezvideoflv/forum/general

and I fixed them on my installation of ezvideoflv. So if you have problems with bugs, contact me and I can send you my fixed version.

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