Thanks for the reply, Mark.
I looked at AllVideosReloaded and it doesn't look like it supports an img for
use with Youtube unless I overlooked something.
David
On Dec 27, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Mark Holberg wrote:
> David,
>
> I believe with a locally hosted video you place a .jpg with the same file
> base name as the video, and it becomes the poster image (image that displays
> before the video plays).
>
> My first instinct would be to try placing a jpg with the same name as the
> YouTube video in the base folder for the locally hosted videos - as specified
> in the AllVideos plugin.
>
> When I used AllVideosReloaded with Joomla 1.5, (either from their doc or the
> JW Player site - I don't remember which right off) code like this would work
> {m4v img="poster/testimonial-poster.jpg" width="440" height="266"}sbhc1{/m4v}
>
> if the structure was /images/stories/video
> then poster would be /images/stories/poster
>
> Whether you can designate a poster image regardless of whether you are
> streaming a local or remote video I can't say. I never tried remote.
>
> Hope this spares you the several bruises I suffered banging my head against
> the wall on this problem.
> Mark
>
>
>
> On 12/27/2011 4:49 AM, David Roth wrote:
>> Anyone familiar with K2 and Allvideos? I installed K2 andIn the it looks
>> very useful. (Thanks again Stephen Britton for recommending it.) I then
>> needed to install Allvideos so it would work with media.
>>
>> I want to be able to have embedded Youtube links with control over the
>> thumbnail being displayed, but since Youtube limits your selection to three
>> random video frames to act as the "poster" or thumbnail, I'd prefer to
>> select my own graphic and have it displayed.
>>
>> So I have been checking out K2 and Allvideos. On Joomlaworks.gr they have as
>> an example of a website using their Allvideos plug-in here:
>> http://www.impactwrestling.com
>>
>> Look in the above URL and see on the right where it says Video Gallery.
>> Notice how a graphic is displayed first in the youtube video before it's
>> played and then it proceeds normally to play the Youtube video. That's what
>> I want to be able to do, create my own graphic to display before the user
>> clicks on the video.
>>
>> Since I'm new to K2 and Allvideos as I mentioned, it's not clear to me how
>> this is being accomplished to display these Youtube videos with the
>> thumbnails. I poked around a little in the HTML but that's only going to
>> show me after it's been processed by the plug-ins.
>>
>> I've seen example code like this:
>>
>> {youtube}heu37ej3qs{/youtube}
>>
>> which embeds a Youtube player. But I've been unable to find an example of
>> where a graphic image to be used as the thumbnail is being specified.
>>
>> Any brilliant insight to this would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> David Roth
>>
>>
>>
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