Get random (or first) frame from video using flex

Question

I am developing an application for recording videos and previewing them as tilelist. Is there any way to capture a frame of the video to use as a thumbnail in my list? I'm using Flex 4.5.

Answer 1

what i was searching for was the following:

        private function capture(filename:String):void
        {   
            var bitmapData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(videoDisplay.width, videoDisplay.height);            
            bitmapData.draw(videoDisplay,new Matrix());

            var bitmap : Bitmap = new Bitmap(bitmapData);
            var jpg:JPEGEncoder = new JPEGEncoder();
            var ba:ByteArray = jpg.encode(bitmapData);
            var newImage:File = File.desktopDirectory.resolvePath("foldername/"+filename+".jpg");

            fileStream = new FileStream();
            fileStream.open(newImage, FileMode.UPDATE);
            fileStream.writeBytes(ba);
            fileStream.close();


        }

which is a method called when the user clicks to record..so i grab a photo as a thumb! i hope the above will help others too who look for something similar... Thanks a lot!