Capturing a screenshot of an embedded video using C#

Question

I am working on a video search engine. Similar to google video. I have noticed that google video has a screen shot from all the videos that they index. I have tried many ways to achieve this with no success. One way that i was suggested is to create an swf that will load the required swf and take a screen shot. however this is not a good solution since i need my video to be indexed automatically.

I have already created the search engine to index all videos. but i am stuck on taking a screen shot.

One thing i have noticed is that the screen shots on google video do not have the play controls of players from various website. This leads me to think that they capture a screen shot from the streaming information and not the flash video.

Does anyone have a clue or a method of how to capture a screen shot of a streaming video using c# Asp.net?

Edit

I am not looking to get a movie and convert it to flash and take a screen shot. I am interested in taking a screen shot of Flash movies on sites like youtube and vimeo. So what i do is index the internet looking for objects tags which i managed to do. But i cannot seem to find a way to take a screen shot. However google managed to do so with google video.

Answer 1

here is good blog post to play video in asp.net and create thumbnail. It could help you as hint. The writer has provided source code too.

http://ramcrishna.blogspot.com/2008/09/playing-videos-like-youtube-and.html