Avkit

AVKit

Libraries involved
AVKit
AVFoundation
AVPlayer

SwiftUI POC

SwiftUI + Video player to stream.
hls-streaming-with-avkit-and-swiftui

Guides

Video thumbnail

This below snippet code should be able to extract the thumbnail image from the given video source. We can also create random time value to generate different thumbnails but we have ensure that the video is at least 13 secs long in this code snippet. You can safe guard yourself with a range of video duration and generate random thumbnail out of it.

let asset = AVAsset(url: url)
let avAssetImageGen = AVAssetImageGenerator(asset: asset)
avAssetImageGen.appliesPreferredTrackTransform = true

let thumbnailSnapTime = CMTimeMake(value: 13, timescale: 1)
do { 
   let thumbCGImage = try avAssetImageGen
   .copyCGImage(at: thumbanailSnaptime, actualTime: nil)
   let thumbImage = UIImage(cgImage: thumbCGImage)
} catch {
	print(error)
}