I hope that I am posting this in the right place and that someone out there can help.

I'm successfully using the 'Video Upload' module to upload a video to Youtube and embed that within the node on my site; however, as far as I can tell it is not generating any thumbnails for the videos. The thumbnail dimensions have been set in the CCK field associated with my content type for the 'Video upload' field. I have also checked that Youtube has generated thumbnails for my video on Youtube itself.

Ideally I want to be able to display the thumbnail via a 'View' of this content type in a block linking to the nodes containing the videos on Youtube.

Any suggestions?

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jhedstrom
Primary language English
Location Portland, OR
commented

The module itself doesn't generate the thumbnails. YouTube should, once a video is fully processed, create 3 different thumbnails for the video. The module simply generates html code to display those thumbnails in the size specified in the widget settings. If you browse to your youtube account, are there thumbnails for the videos that have been uploaded?

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drmonkeyninja commented

Hi jhedstrom thanks for responding. Youtube has generated 3 thumbnails for the uploaded video. I'm aware that the module relies on Youtube to produce the thumbnails; that is in part what appeals to me about this plugin as I want to avoid processing the movie on the website. My issue is how to use the module to display one of those thumbnails on the site. Do I need to add something to the node template and can I access the thumbnails through 'View'?

I'm still relatively new to the world of Drupal and sometimes feel completely lost with the workings of the modules.

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jhedstrom
Primary language English
Location Portland, OR
commented

You can set, for example, the display for teasers to use the thumbnails by visiting admin/content/node-type/{type}/display. If you are making a view to list videos, you can add the video field to the view, and then the thumbnail should be available as one of the possible formats.

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drmonkeyninja commented

Thanks for the quick response, that helps a lot. I forgot all about checking the field display options. It is all working well now, complete with thumbnail.

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bojanz commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.