animated gif thumbnails for videos

[pyrorain]

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

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.

[pyrorain]

well, since i've posted this , i've been readoing about mencoder and mplayer, and mplayer has the capabilty of creating these animated gifs with a command, and the gif library enabled in your mplayer installation, if anyone is really interested, respond, all i need now is learn how to implement it with vshare.

[pyrorain]

guess noone is interestd in helping

[grynmoors]

It may not be that on one is interested, it may be that no one knows.

[SittingOut]

I think it's a cool idea, but I would have no idea how to implement it. I have seen sites before that had 4-6 thumbnails taken, and it cycled through them on mouseover. That's probably close to the same thing, but I have no idea how they did it.

[pyrorain]

what you say was porbbaly a jpg thmbnail rotator, since gifs dont need mouseover to intereact.
i alreayd know the command to creat gifs from the flv videos , but i dont know how o add the command to the script, i might not be possible, due to zend.

[sanil]

I think it's a cool idea, but I would have no idea how to implement it. I have seen sites before that had 4-6 thumbnails taken, and it cycled through them on mouseover. That's probably close to the same thing, but I have no idea how they did it.

if you want to add .jpg images for Channels.
log in to admin
see the Channel Management in left.click Add Channels then you can add any .jpg images to make your own new channel(only .jpg is supports in vshare i am not sure in gif or others)

[grynmoors]

The thumbnail rotator is available. Email me and I'll send you the files. See my sig below for contacting me.

[pyrorain]

The thumbnail rotator is available. Email me and I'll send you the files. See my sig below for contacting me.

but that woudlnt work for the main idea of the gif files: hotlink the thumb in forums/blogs

[grynmoors]

Oh, sorry...my post was in reply to SittingOut

I think it's a cool idea, but I would have no idea how to implement it. I have seen sites before that had 4-6 thumbnails taken, and it cycled through them on mouseover. That's probably close to the same thing, but I have no idea how they did it.

Just letting him/her know that this is available in the forums.