I am working on a project where I need to come up with a web UI for user-training videos. I have a collection of videos stored on a server as mp4 files. Since these videos are internal to the company, I could not share it on public sites like youtube/vimeo. That is the reason I am trying to come up with a simple interface to display the videos as thumbnails and open a pop-up player.
How can I do that with PHP? Any suggestions would be very helpful.
For thumbnails you can take a deeper look into ffmepg and ffprobe. You can make Screenshots and extract info with the help of it.
Get ffmpeg information in friendly way
With the help of shell_exec you can start it with php.
You could do a Cronjob, which saves the information of new videos in the Database, so the Frontend User, can get the information quickly without waiting 5 seconds or more for pageload.
For the Video it self, i think you should google for
html 5 video control
Take a look into this Blog Post:
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/building-custom-controls-for-html5-videos
