Get thumbnail from video URL in swift
Generating thumbnail or preview image from video URL in your iOS app seems to be a tough task, but its not. In this tutorial we will look at the code snippet to create or generate thumbnail from video url..
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Swift code to generate thumbnail from video URL:
Below is the code that will generate thumbnail from a video URL.
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| DispatchQueue.global().async { | |
| let asset = AVAsset(url: url) | |
| let assetImgGenerate : AVAssetImageGenerator = AVAssetImageGenerator(asset: asset) | |
| assetImgGenerate.appliesPreferredTrackTransform = true | |
| let time = CMTimeMake(1, 2) | |
| let img = try? assetImgGenerate.copyCGImage(at: time, actualTime: nil) | |
| if img != nil { | |
| let frameImg = UIImage(cgImage: img!) | |
| DispatchQueue.main.async(execute: { | |
| // assign your image to UIImageView | |
| }) | |
| } | |
| } |
Where to go from here:
In this tutorial you learned how to create or generate thumbnail from video url. The code is fully testified at the time of tutorial being written. If any one found issue is code then please post it as comment. We will try to fix it as soon as we can. Thanks for reading. Happy coding
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