MediaMetadataRetriever alternative?

Question

I'm currently using MediaMetadataRetriever and ImageView

frame = videoFrame.getFrameAtTime(time, MediaMetadataRetriever.OPTION_CLOSEST);
frameView.setImageBitmap(frame);

and as advised by the API, it has a delay due to seeking.

Are there any faster alternatives for grabbing frames at specific times from a source video within the device? (I'm using a 1st gen Nexus 7)

Answer 1

Yes, there are an external library called FFmpegMediaMetadataRetriever. You can do the same actions like with the other class and it doesn´t fails (Unlike the API´s class that sometimes breaks without a reason at determinated positions). But it is under development and you can´t extract the exact frame and not only the key-frames yet. I suppose in one week it will be ready.