Upload flowplayer splash image?

I already have this in place but swftools wasn't working at that time. Take a look at video_formatter.inc line 137. I know you may not be using swftools flowplayer, well i have an else in there at line 143 and maybe it can be added to the clip array.

You should be able to use $video->thumbnail->filepath.

That code works great! Those are both themeable functions, so I overrode them in my theme's template.php and was able to avoid hacking the modules. The two functions to override are theme_video_flv and theme_flowplayer. Working on integrating imagecache to allow for automatic play button overlays on the splash image.

If you success with that, please post here, that would be really help to other users.

I was able to make that work. Granted, these functions have the image_cache preset and the cck field names hardcoded, but it does work, and since I made the changes in my theme's template.php, the modules themselves are untouched. Here are the two functions that I added to template.php. Rename the function names and the image_cache preset and cck fields as needed to work with your setup.

function theme_video_flv($video, $node) {
  if ($video->flash_player == 'swftools') {
    $options = array(
  	  'params' => array(
        'width' => $video->player_width,
        'height' => $video->player_height,
    ),
      'othervars' => array(
    //@todo: swftools bug, can't enable this until they fix their pathing for the images.
    //'image' => $video->thumbnail->swfthumb,
    ),
    );
    $themed_output = swf($video->url, $options);
  }
  elseif ($video->flash_player == 'flowplayer') {
    $options = array(
      'clip' => array(
        'url' => $video->url,
        'autoPlay' => $video->autoplay,
        'autoBuffering' => $video->autobuffering,
    ),
    );
    $themed_output = theme(
      'flowplayer',
    $options,
    $video->formatter,
    array('style' => 'width:' . $video->player_width . 'px;height:' . $video->player_height . 'px;', 'nid' => $node->nid)
    );
  }
  else {
    $themed_output = t('No flash player has been setup. ' . l(t('Please select a player to play Flash videos.'), 'admin/settings/video/players'));
  }
  return theme('video_play_flv', $video, $node, $themed_output);
}


function theme_flowplayer($config = NULL, $id = 'flowplayer', $attributes = array(), $contents = '') {
  // Prepare the ID.
  $id = form_clean_id($id);

  // Prepare the attributes, passing in the flowplayer class.
  if (isset($attributes['class'])) {
    $attributes['class'] .= ' flowplayer';
  }
  else {
    $attributes['class'] = 'flowplayer';
  }
  
  if (isset($attributes['nid'])) {
    $nid = $attributes['nid'];
    $node = node_load($nid);

  if (isset($node->field_video_splash[0]) && $node->field_video_splash[0] != NULL) {
    $contents = theme('imagecache', 'video-thumb', $node->field_video_splash[0]['filepath']);
  }
  }
  
  $attributes = drupal_attributes($attributes);

  // Add the JavaScript to handle the element.
  flowplayer_add('#'. $id, $config);

  // Return the markup.
  return "<div id='$id' $attributes>$contents</div>";
}

To get a play button on the splash images, I used ImageCache Actions (http://drupal.org/project/imagecache_actions) to overlay a transparent png play icon onto the image. That is the action referenced in the theme_flowplayer function as "video-thumb".

this should done by the Flowplayer API module.

Solution for splash image using flowplayer API and suggestions from this page in the flowplayer docs:
http://flowplayer.org/demos/configuration/playlist-splash.html

try this, works for me :)

			// work with flowplayer API :)
			flowplayer_add('#video_player', array(
				//'log' => array( 'level' => 'debug'), // firebug debug log - very very very verbose!!!!
				'playlist' => array(
					array(
						'url' => 'url to image',						
						'scaling' => 'orig',
					),
					array(
						'url' => 'http://vod01.netdna.com/vod/demo.flowplayer/flowplayer-960.mp4',
						
						// this is the SubRib file with captions info
						// 'captionUrl' => $captions_file_path, 
						
						'autoPlay' => FALSE, // Turn autoplay off							
						
						// video will be buffered when splash screen is visible
						'autoBuffering' => true 
					),
				),
			));

I have an unofficial patch the video module that adds the thumbnail as a splash screen if you aren't autoplaying the video: http://drupal.org/node/973950

#9 is what I was looking for, thanks!

Working w/ Flowplayer API in Drupal 7. #9 worked for me as well to output splash image--thanks.