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expo-video-thumbnails: "This media cannot be used"

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Summary

On iOS, expo-video-thumbnails reports “This media cannot be used” for some videos (e.g., http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ForBiggerBlazes.mp4). No problems on Android.

On my local machine, the stack trace is

This media cannot be used.
at node_modules/react-native/Libraries/BatchedBridge/NativeModules.js:106:50 in promiseMethodWrapper
at node_modules/expo-modules-core/build/NativeModulesProxy.native.js:15:23 in moduleName.methodInfo.name
at node_modules/expo-video-thumbnails/build/VideoThumbnails.js:12:17 in getThumbnailAsync
at node_modules/expo-video-thumbnails/build/VideoThumbnails.js:11:7 in getThumbnailAsync
[...]

On Snack I get Error: "This media cannot be used." in [snack internals] << << << p

Is this a known issue?

What platform(s) does this occur on?

iOS

SDK Version

46.0.0

Environment

Not sure how to run npx expo-env-info on snack

Reproducible demo

https://snack.expo.dev/SSxd7QWRH

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Reactions:3
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

shrihari1999commented, Nov 26, 2022

I had the same issue, until i checked the “time” parameter. I was passing a “time” that was beyond the duration of the video. In @jacksondc 's snack, the video’s duration is 15 secs, and the “time” parameter is also 15000, thus raising an error.

Passing any time that falls within the video’s duration solves the error for me

1reaction

brentvatnecommented, Nov 26, 2022

good catch @shrihari1999!

if anyone wants to open a pr to throw a better error in this case it would be welcomed, but i’ll close this issue

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