How Can I create video thumbnail or snapshot or frame capture on videoview from url?

Question

What is the simple way to create video thumbnail or snapshot or frame capture from url? I am using videoview and it has black screen before start.
My code is:

String vidAddress = URL_trailers_mp4;
Uri vidUri = Uri.parse(vidAddress);
VideoView vidView=(VideoView)findViewById(R.id.myVideo);
vidView.setVideoURI(vidUri);
MediaController vidControl = new MediaController(this);
vidControl.setAnchorView(vidView);
vidView.setMediaController(vidControl);
vidView.seekTo(0);

And it does not work.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4437120/get-thumbnail-image-of-video-from-video-url — J.K, Dec 03 '14 at 08:34
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13533857/how-can-i-create-a-thumbnail-of-a-video-url-in-android — J.K, Dec 03 '14 at 08:34
Did not find, but I found youtube link and used youtube api. — Giorgi Orvelashvili, May 11 '15 at 13:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 03 '14 at 08:34

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Maybe just simple

videoview.seekto(0);

will help. It should set first key frame of the video as videoview preview

answered Dec 03 '14 at 08:34

Karol Żygłowicz

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 05 '14 at 09:39

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I found some rough decision: seekto, start and pause got me image on video.

answered Dec 05 '14 at 09:39

Giorgi Orvelashvili

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 27 '15 at 13:27

You can try this way:

FileOutputStream out;
File land=new File(URL);// image file use to create image u can give any path.
Bitmap bitmap=ThumbnailUtils.createVideoThumbnail(filePath, MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.FULL_SCREEN_KIND);//filePath is your video file path.
ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, stream);
byte[] byteArray = stream.toByteArray();

out=new  FileOutputStream(land.getPath());
out.write(byteArray);
out.close();

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 04 '15 at 11:04

Change vidView.seekTo(0); to vidView.seekTo(100); //100 milliseconds (0.1 s) clip of video

And you may create a thumbnail with the following code:

                ImageView imageThumbnail = new ImageView(Video.this);
                Bitmap bmThumbnail;
                bmThumbnail = ThumbnailUtils.createVideoThumbnail(videoSource, MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.MINI_KIND);
                imageThumbnail.setImageBitmap(bmThumbnail);

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 29 '16 at 11:34

You can use MediaMetadataRetriever. example：

MediaMetadataRetriever retriever = new MediaMetadataRetriever();
retriever.setDataSource(context, vidUri);
Bitmap bitmap = retriever.getFrameAtTime(expectPosition);

However,there is no guarentee that the data source has a frame located at the position. When this happens, a frame nearby will be returned.

How Can I create video thumbnail or snapshot or frame capture on videoview from url?

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