How do I get a thumbnail of a video imported from the camera roll, or the camera itself?
This has been asked before, and has been answered. However, the answers kind of suck for me.
This thread iphone sdk > 3.0 . Video Thumbnail? has some options that boil down to:
- Crawl some filesystem directory for a JPG with the latest modification date that should correspond to the video you just picked. This is extremely messy, and involves rooting around in directories Apple would probably not really want me doing.
- Use ffmpeg. But this is so general that I cannot seem to figure out the steps that it would take to import ffmpeg into my project and to actually call it to extract images.
Is there really no other way? This seems like a HUGE oversight in the SDK to me. I mean the video picker has thumbnails in it, so Apple must be doing something to generate those, yet does not allow us to?
Best method I’ve found… MPMoviePlayerController thumbnailImageAtTime:timeOption
Nevermind this… see first comment below. That’s the answer.