Video Thumbnail [#2347217]

There does not appear to be the ability to add an image thumbnail. Is there someway to do this that I am missing?

Comments

Comment #1

deanflory CreditAttribution: deanflory commented 29 February 2016 at 20:44

Maybe add an image field to the video media type? Kinda gets complicated to do that without complicating every instance of where you want to display the image/video. The Video module can automatically pull thumbnails out of the video but requires considerably more setup, both in Drupal and on the server backend.

Comment #2

deanflory CreditAttribution: deanflory commented 29 February 2016 at 20:55

JW Player does allow for a poster image but it doesn't appear to be included in the Drupal module's functionality to make it easy.

https://www.jwplayer.com/html5/poster/

image: “http://example.com/test/player/preview.jpg”,

One commenter notes that the poster image is only used with the tag, so only for the HTML5 player and not for the Flash version.

Another sample from a user:

<div id="video" style="text-align: center;">
 </div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var s1 = new SWFObject('/javascript/shared/player.swf','player',360,'240', '8', '#ffffff');
s1.addParam('flashvars','file=/ext/resources/tech-directory/infor-wausau-supply.mp4&autostart=false&image=/ext/resources/ext/resources/Tech-Directory/Infor-Wausau-Supply-poster.jpg&stretching=none');
s1.write('video');
</script>

Not sure if this is accurate for the latest version (which now has a patch in a separate issue, making it possible).