thanks ill check it out and get back with you 
i assume i can do this fairly simple, i was told its &gt; mencoder / ffmpeg
so e-mac hit it

is there a stand alone app tool that can do this?
i need the hole thing working like on the link i posted
just grabbing thumbnail is not going to work

if you notice when the video is playing you can see the transparent scrub line move over the thumbnail pic as the video is playing