I prefer this excellent module to upload videos to my site over several other video-content related module available for Drupal, because it gives me ability to keep my site and directory structure clean, neat and light-weight.

The only problem is that I have to manually generate images for every video-file I upload via filefield to use as preview images in code for video-player (to clarify what I mean: like in #155358: How can I put video's preview image for Wijering player). So I thought maybe there is a way for filefield to generate an image per uploaded video-file on the fly.

Is it possible? Or maybe there is another module, which generates images for uploaded video-files automatically? I couldn't find.

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Category: feature » support
Status: Active » Fixed

FileField can't and won't provide this functionality, considering reading and parsing out a thumbnail is beyond the abilities of FileField. Similar to how ImageField extends FileField to provide image thumbnails for images, you should look at Video module, which also builds on FileField and should provide the feature-set you're looking for.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.