android - Get Video Thumbnail from Uri

Question

I want to select a video from my Gallery. It's working fine. But now I want to display a Bitmap, as a thumbnail.I tried this code and it's not working, it always says: NullPointerException

Bitmap bitmap2 = ThumbnailUtils.createVideoThumbnail(uri.getPath, MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND);

This is all in an onActivityResult().

How can I get the Bitmap from the video Uri??

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

In the latest API 24, you may face some issues if you stick with an approach in the accepted answer.

for example in this line int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA); sometimes I got W/System.err: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: column '_data' does not exist error message.

also in the latest API, you may get SecurityException if you deal with widgets or shared content. Keep that in mind.

As for the video thumbnail from Uri - I use an approach which utilizes MediaMetadataRetriever, thus you don't need to get String filePath:

            MediaMetadataRetriever mMMR = new MediaMetadataRetriever();
            mMMR.setDataSource(context, videoUri);
            bmp = mMMR.getFrameAtTime();

Hope this helps