does anyone know how to make animated gif thumbnails from the uploaded videos?
that way the thumbnals can be used to link to the site, instead of embeded viode thing or the iframe
thegifs ould be 5 or 6 low resolution captures from teh video and the file would be best created in a certain folder, or with the a suffix of _thumb ie. video_thumb.gif so it can be excempt for the rest of the hotlinking rules in the httacess with this line

Code:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*_thumb.*$ [NC]
the idea its to make it easier for ussers to link to your site and get more traffic going on, as well as to provide possible visotrs what they should expect in the video.