Question

I have a problem, I can only create thumbnails of local video files but not of a remote url, here is my code:

bmThumbnail = ThumbnailUtils.extractThumbnail(ThumbnailUtils.createVideoThumbnail("http://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4", MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.MINI_KIND), 50, 50);

I hope you can help me,

regards
christian

Answer 1

I suppose there is no easy way to build the thumbnail without actually downloading the video locally.

So if your question is ‘Can I get a thumbnail without having to download the full video?’, I’d say…no.

Otherwise, once you have downloaded the video locally, then I guess you can perfectly use ThumbnailUtils.createVideoThumbnail(...) by giving the path to the downloaded file.