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I have several mp4 files on my server and i want to generate a thumbnail image for each of the file.

Do i have to read the complete file for a thumbnail, or is there a way to just seek at middle of the video and take that frame as a thumbnail?

Any Help is highly appriciated

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If you can use the command line then use ffmpeg with the -vframes option, example here:

Through PHP you can use exec() or you can use this PHP-FFMpeg that supports -vframes

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