Trying to use Media Link in Views

You aren't the only one. I'm pretty close to accomplishing this, but not quite there. Here's what I've done:
- Add the video field to the view, formatter = media, File view mode = link; Rewrite results: check "Strip HTML tags"
and "Remove whitespace"; exclude this field
- Add the video field again, this time formatter=media, File view mode = preview; Rewrite results: check "Output this field as a link" and set the path to: http://youtube.com/watch?v=[field_dta_video_1]

Now I get a link on the preview to http://youtube.com/watch?v= S9WtBRNydso (note the space between v= and the ID). No matter what I do I can't get the space removed, so the link doesn't work.

Please some one fix the "preview image not being linked with the actual content" problem

Closing due to no activity for a long time. Feel free to reopen with updated info if issue still remains.

Using Media 2 the preview image cannot be linked with the actual content under Manage Display.

I will have to find a hack or workaround in the meantime. I am surprised that this settings is missing.

I'm facing the same issue.
I'm so surprised too.

I'm here also, outputting the link is screwy no matter how much i fiddle withe the rewrite in Views. Michellezeedru's idea works fine, minus the formatting error.

I've taken to hacking this with jquery, which is pretty poor style, but gets the job done in the meantime.
(of course you can always dig into the views field or fields templates, where you can retrieve the image, formatted and then hand wrap it with data from the link field).

Same problem here. All the rewrite stuff in Views doesn't seem to work well at all with Media.

Are there any plans to solve this in a not too far future ?

same problem with media 2.x-dev

I thought I could get around by using a full rewrite and doing something like <a href='[path]'>[field_media]</a>

That didn't work either. I have the same use case - have a youtube preview image link to the node instead of playing it from the small thumbnail.

No solutions yet, huh?

I had to create a custom field formatter to solve this problem, the field formatter takes care of choosing the correct thumbnail image and render it through a image style, that way it works as a regular field, so that the output can be rewritten normally.

See also File Entity Link.

This isn't fixed!
It's a major problem in Media in my opinion. Effectively you can't get rendered media to link to if you use them in views.

As mentioned in #13, you need to alter the existing formatter(s)/write your own formatter(s).

Each media provider includes its own formatters for rendering files from the service(s) they support. There's no generic way for Media to support wrapping formatter output in a link since it could contain any sort of markup, such as block-level elements, which would be invalid in HTML 4.

If you don't want to write the formatter yourself, you should check out the File Entity Link module and you could always try filing a feature request against whatever media provider module(s) you're using.