flash data integration: I am developing a media viewer that loads various things into dynamically
generated clips.

Is there a way to pull static thumbnails out of FLVs so that I don't have to
load the whole FLV and then scrub to a point in the video to create a thumbnail?

Right now, I have to load the whole FLV just to get the thumbnail, and that is
too much data to load.

I also don't know how to access the bytesTotal and the bytesLoaded when using
the FLVPlayback component instantiated with Actionscript (but that is another
story).

You can check it out here, and give me your thoughts. Double click on the
thumbnails to expand them. I know there are bugs! My big concern right now is
discovering an elegant way to get thumbnails out of the FLVs without having to
actually create small jpgs to accompany the FLVs.

I am using the FLVPlayback component for the video. Some of these are video
(top) and some are static images (bottom).

http://www.waymackandcrew.com/polaroidtest/mediascatter8.html

I have the same problem.
For a gallery of movies i made a player with NetStream and NetConnection, to
create a thumbnail right now, i load the movie with a buffer time of 1 second.
As soon as the buffer is full, i close the NetStream component, so the loading
quits.
I dont know if this is the correct way to do. Anyone else has a sollution for
this problem?