Web Player in Forums PunBB and FluxBB - Extension

Why use a demo-video, why not link to the official WebPlayer webmaster site : http://labs.divx.com/Webplayer - it has a demo-video on first page.

Othervise, if it is for showing in your forum, download the movieclip to your own server, but you should check with DivX about copyrights, it looks like a videoclip you may use for showing DivX related technologies.

For your thumbnail question : If you have only a url to a avi-file, there is no easy way for you to generate a thumbnail, you kan have a standard jpeg file on your server to use on all clips, but not a thumb of the specific file.

But I never say no ! - If you are keen with PHP and ffmpeg, you can create a script that parses the database-table with posted divx-links, downloads the DivX-file to your server, and with ffmpeg extracts the 50'th frame (circa 2 seconds into the movie), and saves this jpeg for use as thumbnail. Remember to delete the DivX-file after thumbnail generation to preserve harddrive space. If bandthwidth and harddrive space is not a problem, you could keep the clips on your own server and update the database-table to point at your files after it is fetched, this prevents dead links if a user posts a DivX-link that goes down a week after and becoming a broken link. But it depends on what type of site you are creating.

Best Regards
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Tommy Bjerg
Denmark

Running an intranet site with over 5000 clips in DivX using Web Player.