Capturing live stream to static image on server

As part of a kludge we're working on to get around showing inline video (from cams) on devices such as iPhone which isn't supported by flash, we're planning to use websockets to stream data instead. We've seen a few other similar services do something similar as a kludge. There is no audio but at least something is visible to the user on devices that don't support flash or where inline HLS is not available (iPhone!).
Capturing static data on the FMS seems like quite a common request (e.g. to make thumbnails or whatever) but is there code available to do this? I have looked but found nothing as of yet. As part of the solution, streams will need to be saved to static images e.g. every x seconds, on the FMS server.
Any help or pointers welcome
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4. if your use case is mp4, then please use "MP4PublishonLoad" instead of "FLVPublishonLoad" application.
=============
As I am unable to attach the files here therefore copy-pasting the code for you and others to be re-used:
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    nc = new NetConnection();
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=====================
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=====================
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