How to create a video thumbnail from a video file path in Android?

Question

I want to create a thumbnail of a video from the SD card path. How can I do that?

Answer 1

You can use ThumbnailUtils class to get Video thumbnail of Video file.

createVideoThumbnail() is method which return Bitmap (thumbnail) of video from video file path.

From Android Docs:

public static Bitmap createVideoThumbnail (String filePath, int kind)

Create a video thumbnail for a video. May return null if the video is corrupt or the format is not supported.

You can create VideoThumbnail from sdcard path like this.

Bitmap thumb = ThumbnailUtils.createVideoThumbnail(filePath, Thumbnails.MINI_KIND);

Using ThumbnailUtils, you can create thumbnail of two types.

1. MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND type will generate thumbnail of size 96 x 96.

2. MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.MINI_KIND type will generate thumbnail of size 512 x 384.

I hope it helps!