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Expo VideoThumbnails

A library that allows you to generate an image to serve as a thumbnail from a video file.

Android

iOS

tvOS

Included in Expo Go

Deprecated: Video Thumbnails library has been deprecated in favor of generateThumbnailsAsync from expo-video. expo-video-thumbnails is not receiving patches and will be removed in SDK 56.

expo-video-thumbnails allows you to generate an image to serve as a thumbnail from a video file.

Installation

Terminal

- npx expo install expo-video-thumbnails

- yarn expo install expo-video-thumbnails

- pnpm expo install expo-video-thumbnails

- bun expo install expo-video-thumbnails

If you are installing this in an existing React Native app, make sure to install expo in your project.

Usage

Video Thumbnails

import { useState } from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, Button, View, Image, Text } from 'react-native';
import * as VideoThumbnails from 'expo-video-thumbnails';

export default function App() {
  const [image, setImage] = useState(null);

  const generateThumbnail = async () => {
    try {
      const { uri } = await VideoThumbnails.getThumbnailAsync(
        'https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4',
        {
          time: 15000,
        }
      );
      setImage(uri);
    } catch (e) {
      console.warn(e);
    }
  };

  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <Button onPress={generateThumbnail} title="Generate thumbnail" />
      {image && <Image source={{ uri: image }} style={styles.image} />}
      <Text>{image}</Text>
    </View>
  );
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#F5FCFF',
  },
  image: {
    width: 200,
    height: 200,
  },
});

API

import * as VideoThumbnails from 'expo-video-thumbnails';

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