I am trying to make a little website that will show some videos that people upload to the site. They are going to uploaded as a .flv file. What I want to do it I want to create some script or find something out there that can do it for me that will take the .flv file and give me an animated .gif so when they mouse over the .gif they can see a little of what the video is. The big thing is that I want o automate the process so I dont want to put it into any kind of desktop program and export it as an animated .gif.
Does anyone know where I can find something like this? I have looked all over the place and have found nothing.

Search engines can be your friend

I have searched for a while, and maybe I just haven't searched with the correct terms, but all I find are software programs that will work on your desktop.

Maybe knowing what server side code would be a help.

I did that a long time ago by using the mencoder program on linux. You can give it any video input, and choose to have it converted to an gif.

http://blog.ahfr.org/2008/03/making-...-software.html

Or, using ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi gif_anime.gif

would love e to try it out, my question is how many days is the free trial?

i always use Xlisoft converter .

Try it !!

I've already done this. You will have to convert .flv to .avi or mpeg because you cannot directly convert .flv to .gif.