Additional teaser dimensions? [#1244044]

in Re: Protools. What this module does is simply embed the video with an iframe - there is no caching that can/should be done with that content and imagecache (now image styles) does not handle this sorta thing.

We can leverage image styles to resize thumbnails, however - the load time is most likely caused by services (vimeo and youtube) not allowing you to load videos in parallel from the same location. The server load should be minimal (since its an iframe, which is handled by the browser). The load time is probably occurring at the browser and service level. Using thumbnails for lists would definitely assist with this, but i won't be able to help the load times for the videos themselves

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Comment #13

protools CreditAttribution: protools commented 2 September 2011 at 23:43

for example:

for this video http://youtu.be/RTBa8GYqKto

youtube have 3 image:

http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/RTBa8GYqKto/1.jpg
http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/RTBa8GYqKto/2.jpg
http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/RTBa8GYqKto/3.jpg

maybe for thumbnail get one of them ?

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Comment #14

Canadaka CreditAttribution: Canadaka commented 15 September 2011 at 10:45

I added a super simple hack to my site that will display a thumbnail image instead of the teaser iframe.

video_embed_field.module line 354

if (!$teaser) return $template_start . $url_temp . $id . $template_end;
else {			
	$thumbnail = '<img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$id.'/0.jpg" width="'.$width.'" height="'.$height.'" />';
	return $thumbnail;
} //teaser end

But the image should use "image styles" to resize ans store a thumbnail locally I think. The code here could be used to create an image style from the external URL http://www.pepperpotdesign.co.uk/blog/rendering-drupal-7-image-styles-ou...
But the filename would have to be stored in a field.

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Comment #15

dgastudio CreditAttribution: dgastudio commented 16 September 2011 at 13:45

+1 for video thumb!

can we use this somehow?

http://drupal.org/project/imagecache_external

<?php
  print theme('imagecache_external', array('path' => 'http://larsjung.de/h5ai/sample/screenshots/h5ai-v0.7-icons.png', 'style_name'=> 'thumbnail'));
?>

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Comment #16

Canadaka CreditAttribution: Canadaka commented 16 September 2011 at 20:34

good find, I installed their dev and it works.
return theme('imagecache_external', array('path' => 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$id.'/0.jpg', 'style_name'=> 'thumbnail'));
I guess the style_name should be a variable configurable in the video embed settings page, or maybe the display widget.

Once the first imagecache is created, it doesn't re-create it each time right? Does it check it if exists and if it does use the local one from now on?

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Comment #17

jec006 CreditAttribution: jec006 commented 17 September 2011 at 04:21

Hey Guys,

My thought is that the best way to do this and be able to handle multiple movie providers is to download the thumbnail and save it to the file system. We will then be able to use image styles (imagecache) to improve performance and size it the way we want. We can then delete the file whenever a video is removed (or changed).

One of the guys that I work with has made some process on producing a patch towards this end - so hopefully we will have a new release soon with this functionality.