Re: [PECL-DEV] Video frame grab extension

On 20 Feb 2010, at 23:51, Michael Shadle wrote:

> Is it only for directly communicating with devices, or for existing videos?

It's actually only devices.  Basically still images.

> The ffmpeg-php extension would really be useful if someone kept it
> alive and got it into PECL. I definitely could use existing video
> conversion, thumbnailing/frame grabbing, branding, and video info
> functions in a supported extension for sure.

You're not the first person who's said that ability would be useful.  I'm not working on it right now though.

> I would say this could be useful for me if it worked on video files.
> For devices, not so much. However, I think any extension that
> "extends" PHP's usability should be fine to land in PECL and AFAIK
> there is nothing like this yet. There are some with duplicated
> features already, this one is unique. No reason not to. :)

Yay!

> If you're really good at multimedia development, you should look at
> getting php-ffmpeg beefed up too and into PECL. That'd be pretty
> popular I think :)

I may have to add that to my todo list :-)  But I understand it couldn't go in to PECL.

Melanie