how do i get the thumbnail of a video form a video server like YouTube.com

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Are the videos from another server?(e.g. Youtube).

if yes then use file_get_contents(),couple it with some regular expressions then you can get the file name of the thumbnail.

if no then you can use ffmpeg to capture screenshots from videos from your server.

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