php - Get the thumbnail contents in a variable instead of saving on a file

Solution:

You could combining the following commands:

• ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -s 150x150 -ss 00:00:00.750 -vframes 1 output.png -hide_banner -loglevel panic

• This will make the output fromffmpeg as quiet as possible

• cat output.png

• Print the file contents to the console (and be returned byshell_exec)

• rm output.png

• Delete the file

to the following:

shell_exec("ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -s 150x150 -ss 00:00:00.750 -vframes 1 output.png -hide_banner -loglevel panic; cat output.png; rm output.png");
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I'm not aware of any method to get ffmpeg to dump data directly without placing it into a file.

Hope this helps.