Generate thumbnail using uploaded videos in PHP

After searching the world wide web for how to generate thumbnail images using the video I uploaded. I came across this answer in stackoverflow: php - Generate preview image from Video file? - Stack Overflow

First, we have to install PHP-FFMpeg here: PHP-FFMpeg/PHP-FFMpeg. This package requires FFmpeg.

composer require php-ffmpeg/php-ffmpeg

Then you can use it like this:

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$sec = 10;
$movie = 'test.mp4';
$thumbnail = 'thumbnail.png';

$ffmpeg = FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create();
$video = $ffmpeg->open($movie);
$frame = $video->frame(FFMpeg\Coordinate\TimeCode::fromSeconds($sec));
$frame->save($thumbnail);
echo '<img src="'.$thumbnail.'">';

Learning from the idea above we can use the class `FFMpeg`. using the open function we can pass the path of the video. then we can use frame to generate by passing fromSeconds static function from TimeCode class by passing a seconds arguments to get thumbnail based on video timeline. We can then use save function passing in the path, with the file name.