Changing the thumbnail view for videos?

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:57:44 +0100

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dynamic_hubzilla wrote the following post Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:57:44 +0100

Changing the thumbnail view for videos?

I just now picked up on the fact that the thumbnail for videos on my feed always shows up as a photograph of clouds. Is there any way that I can replace this with a blank gray rectangle or better yet a blank rectangle with some kind of a "play" icon on it?

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Tue, 29 Oct 2024 04:00:41 +0100

Scott M. Stolz

scott@biztechtonics.net

And possibly make the video responsive. :)

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 08:08:08 +0100

Harald Eilertsen

harald@hub.volse.no

@dynamic_hubzilla If you're running your own hub, you should be able to change the thumbnail by setting the system.default_video_poster configuration.

You can do it from the terminal, like this:

$ ./util/config system default_video_poster url/to/my_poster.jpg

You can also set a specific poster to the videos you post, by adding it to the [video] tag like this:

[video poster='url/to/my_poster']video-link[/video]

(Yes, the url has to be in single quotes in this case. Not sure if that was a conscious decision or not.)

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:53:59 +0100

Tim Schlotfeldt ⚓🏳️‍🌈

ts-new@hub.tschlotfeldt.de

@Harald Eilertsen

You can also set a specific poster to the videos you post, by adding it to the [video] tag like this:

[video poster='url/to/my_poster']video-link[/video]

(Yes, the url has to be in single quotes in this case. Not sure if that was a conscious decision or not.)

Oh, that's good to know.

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:10:25 +0100

Harald Eilertsen

harald@hub.volse.no

@Tim Schlotfeldt ⚓🏳️‍🌈 I'm unsure how much use that code has seen, so let me know if you discover any issues with it.

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:22:12 +0100

Scott M. Stolz

scott@biztechtonics.net

This would make a great article.

Temporarily stashing it in #^https://codejournal.dev/wiki/scott/Hubzilla/Videos for future reference.