Not to detract in any way from Jason's excellent solution. I very much appreciate his sharing. And I love the fotoko.com UI. Very nicely done :-)
Just as an fyi ... a solution is also provided in a January 2005 Devnet article by Lisa Larson under the heading "Generating Dynamic Thumbnails": Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Streaming Flash Video http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_player_05.html In Lisa's source code the key logic follows the comments: //get first frame of video and: //begin at the specified start point, and play one frame ns.play( stream, start, 0 ); Rather than using close() Lisa's code specifies a len argument of 0 on play(). LiveDocs for play() method on NetStream here: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00002565.html hth, g On 11/27/06, Jason Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi - I had this same question a while back and never really found an answer via the list. What I ended up doing works very well, if what you want to do is get the first frame of the video to be the image. ...
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