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christianRibig5
christianRibig5

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Generating Thumbnail From Uploaded Video in Laravel

Good day guys, Please can any one help me with a working and reliable code for generating a thumbnail from video.I am using laravel spatie library and was able to generate thumbnail from image in a fly but having difficulty to get thumbnail from video. I am developing api for a business android app. Using laravel as back-end api development. My interest is getting thumbnail from uploaded video.

Thanks in advance

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Victor

I'm not sure about particular package you're talking about, but usually ffmpeg library and any PHP wrapper above it is used (at least php-ffmpeg), general command for CLI looks like this (you can take random time for your videos)
ffmpeg -i $uploaded_file -ss 00:00:01.000 -vframes 1 output.png