cplus98 / react-native-video-processing

Make video thumbnail, Trim video for iOS/Android

react-native-video-processing

iOS/Android video trimmer and thumbnail generator with support for both local and remote videos. react-native-video-processing is a wrapper around AVAssetImageGenerator (iOS) and MediaMetadataRetriever (Android)

Getting started

1. Install library from npm

   yarn add react-native-video-processing

   or

   npm i react-native-video-processing

2. Link native code

   With autolinking (react-native 0.60+)

   cd ios && pod install

   Pre 0.60

   react-native link react-native-video-processing

Usage

import { createThumbnail } from "react-native-video-processing";

createThumbnail({
  url: "<path to video file>",
  type: "local"
  timeStamp: 5000
})
  .then(response => {
    console.log({ response });
    this.setState({
      status: "Thumbnail received",
      thumbnail: response.path
    });
  })
  .catch(err => console.log({ err }));

Request Object

Property	Type	Description
url	String (required)	Path to video file (local or remote)
timeStamp	Number (default 0)	Thumbnail timestamp (in milliseconds)
format	String (default jpeg)	Thumbnail format, can be one of: jpeg, or png
quality	Number (default 100)	Thumbnail quality (0 to 100)
maxWidth	Number (default 0)	Maximum thumbnail width (Using with maxHeight)
maxHeight	Number (default 0).	Maximum thumbnail width (Using with maxWidth)
tolerance	Number (default 1)	Thumbnail tolerance (in milliseconds, only iOS)

Response Object

Property	Type	Description
path	String	Path to generated thumbnail
width	Number	Thumbnail width
height	Number	Thumbnail height

Notes

Requires following Permissions on android

READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Limitations

Remote videos aren't supported on android sdk_version < 14

Credits

• react-native-thumbnail - A great source of inspiration
• This project was bootstrapped with create-react-native-module

Maintenance Status

Active: Bug reports, feature requests and pull requests are welcome.