Make Thumbnail Splash Image with Button Overlay on Flash Player

[and]

Use the thumbnail associated with the video object as splash image in the Flowplayer on video/view pages.

Overlay this with the transparent EM play logo

[and]

Moved to 0.3 as proposed a few weeks ago. no more features are being added into 0.2 before a 'final' is released, only bug fixes.

[anna]

some ideas on this...

you can use mplayer to extract thumbnails (as well as ffmpeg):

mplayer -vo jpeg -frames 1 -ss

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mencoder-users/2007-February/005331.html

then use GD to combine this frame thumbnail with the engagemedia logo (current flash splash image)? http://www.codewalkers.com/c/a/Miscellaneous/Overlapping-Images-with-GD/1/

or use the playlist function that comes with Flowplayer to load the frame thumb, overlay and video:

http://community.flowplayer.org/demo/basic+setup

this example has nice rollover play button we might want to look at also...