what is alternative to ffmpeg for generating thumbnails

Currently I am using ffmpeg to generate thumbnails from the uploaded video. Its working fine. But, i guess there should be better option to this. So, i am looking for the alternative to generate thumbnail from ffmpeg.

Currently i am using PHP. So, any solution in php will be great. I was thinking about imagemagick but i am not sure开发者_StackOverflow社区 about it.

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. Any suggestions are welcome.

Hope this question is clear.

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Maybe you can grab the frame at 100% using ffmpeg and then downsize / edit it with either GD or ImageMagick

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Ive never tried it befoe, but I think MEncoder is generally regarded as the alternative to FFMPEG. Niggles' statement about resizing is probably your best for resizing the thumbnails