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alex b.38
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9 years ago

Android Api get thumbnail from video

Hi, I wish to get thumbnail from videos with sDbxClient.files().getThumbnail(metadata.getMetadata().getPathLower()) And it always throw me  com.dropbox.core.v2.files.ThumbnailErrorException: ...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

The unsupported_image error means "The image cannot be converted to a thumbnail." 

It sounds like you're trying to get thumbnails for videos specifically, but unfortunately that's not currently supported. We'll consider it a feature request though.

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