is it possible to create a thumbnail of video that is hosted on different site? I can use ffmpeg but i think you can use it to create thumbnail only if the video is on your directory?
If possible I don't want to download the video cause it will use lot of time and process for my server.
Im using PHP.
Many sites, such as YouTube, will use the media tag for allowing media data to be displayed in feeds:
<media:thumbnail url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/8aYQ_wjmriQ/2.jpg' height='90' width='120' time='00:01:23' yt:name='default'>
You will need to search the source page you are referencing for such a tag.