When using Coil to load videos from URIs generated...

# compose

[Felix Schütz]

When using Coil to load videos from URIs generated with ContentResolver , I need to explicitly pass the fetcher to the request builder, otherwise Coil cannot process the video (since the URI does not contain the file type). E.g.:

Image(
    painter = rememberImagePainter(
        data = contentUri,
        builder = {
            fetcher(VideoFrameUriFetcher(LocalContext.current))
        },
    ),
    contentDescription = null,
)

Creating the VideoFrameUriFetcher instance for every video seems kind of inefficient. Is there a better Compose way?

[Alex]

Why not hoist the video frame fetcher?

[Felix Schütz]

Yeah, probably makes sense. Thanks.

[Alex]

The frame fetcher could live inside your viewmodel too so it won't be recreated on every recomposition, although I am not sure if builder already does some caching for you