Android - Display a video thumbnail from a URL

Question

I need to display a video thumbnail based to a URL into an ImageView view child of my ListView items, i have found this post but n

Answer 1

Without downloading video you can generate thumbnail of video by using below method :

public static Bitmap retriveVideoFrameFromVideo(String videoPath)throws Throwable
{
    Bitmap bitmap = null;
    MediaMetadataRetriever mediaMetadataRetriever = null;
    try
    {
        mediaMetadataRetriever = new MediaMetadataRetriever();
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 14)
            mediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(videoPath, new HashMap());
            else
                mediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(videoPath);
     //   mediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(videoPath);
        bitmap = mediaMetadataRetriever.getFrameAtTime(1, MediaMetadataRetriever.OPTION_CLOSEST);
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
        throw new Throwable("Exception in retriveVideoFrameFromVideo(String videoPath)"+ e.getMessage());
    }
    finally
    {
        if (mediaMetadataRetriever != null)
        {
            mediaMetadataRetriever.release();
        }
    }
    return bitmap;
}