# Programmatic stills from Flash Video FLV (Progressive)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programmatic-stills-from-flash-video-flv-progressive/206326>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 7, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programmatic-stills-from-flash-video-flv-progressive/206326 "2006-11-07T05:19:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programmatic-stills-from-flash-video-flv-progressive/206326/1 "2006-11-07T05:19:46Z")

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Hi all,

Now, logically I know this isnt possible with actionscript alone (since it would be difficult to grab a still/thumbnail from the 10 sec mark of a video if flash had only downloaded 5 sec of said video), but does anyone have a solution for getting dynamic still from flv files (vis-a-vis the frame at the beginning of all youtube video clips)?

The only thing i can think of is to export a frame from each video I want a still from. That would be pretty cumbersome if I started posting a lot of videos.

YouTube appears to be provide their content via progressive steams and they have a still at the beginning of each clip, so it must be possible somehow :? Anyone have any good solutions for this? maybe via another language (PHP or something)? Any help would be much appreciated!