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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 ofgenerateThumbnailsAsyncfromexpo-video.expo-video-thumbnailsis 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
If you are installing this in an existing React Native app, make sure to install expo in your project.
Usage
Video Thumbnails
API
import * as VideoThumbnails from 'expo-video-thumbnails';
Methods
Create an image thumbnail from video provided via sourceFilename.
Returns:
Promise<VideoThumbnailsResult>Returns a promise which fulfils with VideoThumbnailsResult.