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/CoreSimulator/Devices/F33222DF-D8F0-448B-A127-C5B03C64D0DC/data/Containers/Data/Application/4BC62DBF-0108-453C-9324-5BC0E356FE24/tmp/trim.059D11E6-F0EF-43DB-9E97-CA4F1F95D6B6.MOV
Thank you.
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