Android Create Video Thumbnail at specific time

Question

I already got it to create a thumbnail from my video. The code looks like this:

videoGalleryThumbnails.add(ThumbnailUtils.extractThumbnail(ThumbnailUtils.cre         


        

Answer 1

Ok i got it. The MediaMetadataRetriever was absolutely the right way to go. The problem is, that it counts the time in microseconds and not in seconds. Solution looks like this:

try {
        retriever.setDataSource(videoFile.getAbsolutePath());
        int timeInSeconds = 30;
        myBitmap = retriever.getFrameAtTime(timeInSeconds * 1000000,
                    MediaMetadataRetriever.OPTION_CLOSEST_SYNC); 
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        Log.i("MyDebugCode", "MediaMetadataRetriever got exception:" + ex);
    }

videoGalleryThumbnails.add(myBitmap);

I don't know, if OPTION_CLOSEST_SYNC is actually needed, but it looks like this is the better way for programming.

Thanks to William Riley for pointing me in the right direction.