Creating thumbnail from local video in swift

Question

How to create thumbnail in swift from a local video file ?

For example if the video file path is located here :

file:///Users/Dev/Library/Developer/Co

Answer 1

BaseZen's answer translated Swift 3 / Swift 4

You need to set the location of the video you want to make a thumbnail of as the url asset path, like:

Don't forget to import AVFoundation

func generateThumbnail(path: URL) -> UIImage? {
    do {
        let asset = AVURLAsset(url: path, options: nil)
        let imgGenerator = AVAssetImageGenerator(asset: asset)
        imgGenerator.appliesPreferredTrackTransform = true
        let cgImage = try imgGenerator.copyCGImage(at: CMTimeMake(value: 0, timescale: 1), actualTime: nil)
        let thumbnail = UIImage(cgImage: cgImage)
        return thumbnail
    } catch let error {
        print("*** Error generating thumbnail: \(error.localizedDescription)")
        return nil
    }
}

For everyone having issues with this I have created the following drop in example hosted on Github