Video Thumbnails on flash videos

  • I’m using Vipers video quicktags to embed FLV files in my blog. It works great, the video plays fine. My only problem with it is on initial load of the page, the video is black with a white play icon in the middle, is there a way to make it display either the first frame of video or a .jpg thumbnail? How are the youtube, metacafe, and other videos abled to display a video thumbnail on initial page load?

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  • I have the same problem.
    Is there any way to solve it?
    I found out from the flash player developer’s site that a .jpg file can be inserted inside the embed tag for each video, and it works.
    But I have different videos, and would like to display different images for each of them. And besides, I’m not very good at editing code, so it would be great if there were an easy way to do it !

    Thread Starter bebopblues

    (@bebopblues)

    The thing is, how are the video sites such as youtube and metacafe doing it? When you embed their videos into your blog, it auto displays a thumbnail for the video.

    Someone has to know how to do this, please help.

    Thread Starter bebopblues

    (@bebopblues)

    I can’t believe I figured out how to do it. YAY!

    For those interested, here’s how I got thumbnails on my flash videos (FLV), you’ll need three things.

    1) FLV Embed plugin
    2) JW FLV Player by Jeroen
    3) MyCSS , This is optional if you want to center the FLV video on the page.

    Download and extract all three files into your wordpress plugins folder. Open the “flv-embed.php” file in the FLV Embed folder and edit this line:
    $flv_useposter = 0;
    Just change it to: $flv_useposter = 1;
    Open the MyCSS folder and edit the file “my.css”. Add this line to the bootom of it:
    #player1, #player2, #player3 {text-align: center;}
    If you have more than three videos, just add more #player# strings, such as #player4, #player5, #player6, etc.
    Activate both the FLV Embed and MyCSS plugins in WordPress. Now to post a video, type in your post or page:
    flv:movieURL thumbnailURL width length
    Where movieURL is the URL of the FLV file and thumbnailURL is the URL of the thumbnail image. Width and length are the resolution of the video.

    Thats it! enjoy.

    thanks a lot! it worked for me too.

    i’ll try something with this ??

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