Getting the first frame of a video file possible?

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Hello, I'm trying to get a thumbnail for video files. Is there an easy way to get the first frame of a video file (3gpp/mp4) that is stored to the phones memory? I mean, is MMAPI capable of getting it or is the only way to start figuring out the different formats, read the raw data and get it that way? Thanks.

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Okay, seems like no one has answers to this one. It is looking like a real hassle to implement. Any help would be appreciated! This is what I have tried:

While video is playing, taking a snapshot of it,

byte[] imageArray = vc.getSnapshot(null);
System.out.println("Data length: " + imageArray.length);

.. but it always returns only 69 bytes (which I'm guessing is the header).

Has anyone been able to take a snapshot out of a playing clip instead of camera recording?

The other option of doing it in the low level seems like it would take forever to implement, so I'm really hoping there would be at least some kind of workaround out there!

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Okay, I found a similar example from WTK's examples and I tried it on the phones (E70 and E90). It doesn't work. Is this Nokia related "feature" or has someone been able to get this to work on a phone? I mean, taking a snapshot of a playing video with VideoControls getSnapshot.

Here's the code:

new Thread() {
public void run() {
try {
byte [] snap = vc.getSnapshot("encoding=jpeg");
if (snap != null) {
Image im = Image.createImage(snap, 0, snap.length);
Alert al = new Alert("Snapshot",
"Here's the snap",
im,
AlertType.INFO);
al.setTimeout(2000);
vt.setAlert(al);
}
} catch (MediaException me) {
System.err.println(me);
}
}
}.start();