Re: Video frame grab extension

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Thyberthpithe <thyberthpithe@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > I've been working on a video frame grab extension to PHP (because I have a need) and its > gotten to a state where it works at a basic level for linux.. It will grab an image from a specified > video device in the camera defaults and can save it as a PNG (in gray scale for a BW camera and RGB > for cameras that support RGB, YUV, YUYV etc.  I will eventually support Windows and OS X as well. > > Is this something that should go in the PECL repository or shall I find another home for it? Is it only for directly communicating with devices, or for existing videos? The ffmpeg-php extension would really be useful if someone kept it alive and got it into PECL. I definitely could use existing video conversion, thumbnailing/frame grabbing, branding, and video info functions in a supported extension for sure. I would say this could be useful for me if it worked on video files. For devices, not so much. However, I think any extension that "extends" PHP's usability should be fine to land in PECL and AFAIK there is nothing like this yet. There are some with duplicated features already, this one is unique. No reason not to. :) If you're really good at multimedia development, you should look at getting php-ffmpeg beefed up too and into PECL. That'd be pretty popular I think :)