How to get a snapshot of the first frame of a .flv in PHP?

And save it as an image.

Is this kind of job p开发者_C百科ossible in PHP?

PHP has an ffmpeg library which you can use for this. Utilizing ffmpeg_movie you can return a video file as an object:

$movie = new ffmpeg_movie('/path/to/.flv');

You can then go on and use the getFrame() method, which returns the frame as an ffmpeg_frame object, which has the method toGDImage() which returns a GD image of the frame. Obviously the GD library needs to be enabled.

See this question.

All the solutions seem to rely on FFMPEG (so it's unlikely this would work on shared web hosting, for example).