Video Poster Frames

Hi Everyone,
Can someone assist me please. I'm trying to automatically auto-generate poster frames for videos. Currently I have videos that's embeded into our site, before pressing play a blank screen is displayed. I would like to have someway of going into the video for say 30 seconds and display that as the poster frame prior to pressing play.

The YouTube preview images are created during the upload/encoding process.
It has nothing to do with the YouTube player.
Strobe Media Playback is a video player.
There is no encoding process which can create and save an image.
You may be able to automate the create-poster-image process on your server using FFMPEG.
Search for "FFMPEG poster image" and you will find some methods using PHP for example.
There was (may still be) a plug-in for JW Player for creating preview images.
It involves a SWF plug-in file and some PHP code.
I could not get it to work as there was little to no documentation.
Perhaps for commercial subscribers they provide help to get it working.
It may be possible to create a Strobe plug-in to do something similar.
But the Strobe project seems to have gone dormant so you are definitely on your own for that one.

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BUMP.
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