Hi - I know how to do a preview image for a locally-stored video. Can one now (and it's not documented yet) or would you please add this?...

For remote-sourced videos, like those coming from vimeo or youtube, can you implement a parameter to point to a specific preview image/poster frame? Many times, especially with youtube, you cannot pick a poster frame that is of decent quality so on a large screen things look like garbage until the video starts playing, youtube recognizes you have enough bandwidth and switches into HD mode. Until then - it's ick.

I tried something like this:

But that didn't work. Is there a different parameter already for "img" that would work? And again if not, could you please add this? Nothing fancy is needed like a link tool or selection tool etc - make the editor of the article figure out their own path and just type it in. This is a fantastic plugin and thank you very much for writing it and providing it to the community. Would love this additional feature if at all possible.

Cheers

Hi,

Currently there is no way to set a poster image for videos provided by services like Youtube. You can only have poster images for videos hosted on your server. Just place an image file named as your video file in the same directory where your video is. So if for example your video is located at images/videos/video.mp4 you need an image at images/videos/video.jpg .