Flutter get video frames using video player or ffmpeg

Question

I have a flutter app that processes videos, now, I want to display like a video timeline at the bottom of the video but it should be comprised of the video frames of the video at various points, my googling has been fruitless so far and I was hoping to achieve this using flutter video_player and/or flutter_ffmpeg (I use these packages in my app). I have tried to look this online but I want to avoid using another package just for this, how do i achieve this using either or both the packages?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I actually found a work around, I decided better find something that's already working than reinvent the wheel. So the plugin video_thumbnail to the resque, look at how it is being used here github. I hope this will save someone the headache too.