More thumbnail types _AND_ thumbnail support without needing ffmpeg

There were two key features that I needed from FlashVideo and was able to implement by changing a single line of code in the module. That's shown below. However, this change breaks support for multiple thumbnails per video (and maybe breaks other things too). It would be wonderful if the author of this fine module created a "real" way to do the two things, which are:

1. Support for uploaded pictures being used as thumbnails, even if you're not using ffmpeg (in which case the pictures don't get put into the necessary tables(s))

2. Support for thumbnails of type PNG and/or GIF and/or mime type "image/jpeg" (which you get when uploading a JPG and not using ffmpeg). PNGs can have transparency, which JPGs cannot. GIFs can be animated, whereas JPGs cannot.

Here's the old line of code, around line 1562 in the 2008/02/20 version for Drupal 5:

$thumb_file = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT f.filepath,f.fid FROM {flashvideo} fv LEFT JOIN {files} f ON f.fid = fv.fid WHERE (f.nid = %d) AND (f.filemime='jpg') AND (fv.video_index=%d)", $nid, $index));

And here's my replacement, with the drawback(s) I mentioned above:

$thumb_file = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT f.filepath,f.fid FROM {flashvideo} fv LEFT JOIN {files} f ON f.nid = fv.nid WHERE (f.nid = %d) AND ((f.filemime='jpg') OR (f.filemime LIKE 'image/%'))", $nid));

Would it be possible for you, fine author (or other smart person), to create the benefits of this change without using my ham-handed approach?

Thank you.