Firstly, thanks to these awesome dudes for these modules @IceCreamYou @publicmind

I'm sorry to bring up this problem again because I've seen a few people around with the same issue but none of the suggestions seem to work for me and I've been pulling my hair out for a few days >_<

I cannot make a youtube thumbnail appear when I add a link to a youtube video.

I found this comment from publicmind but maybe his comment was ONLY for Drupal 6.x??>

You need to install emfield and emvideo, and then enable emvideo integration from the 'link' plugin settings page and chose the YouTube provider.

BUT, when I go to the the 'link' plugin page, there is nothing to enable emvideo integration.

I have these installed >

Drupal 7.14
em_field 7.x-1.0-alpha1
media_youtube 7.x-1.0-beta3
video_embed_field 7.x-2.0-beta4

(Also, I have this warning on the views > statuses_all page. I don't know if it's related??)
Style RSS Feed requires a row style but the row plugin is invalid.

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mathankumarc commented

hmm. it seems little harder to fix it. What ever the youtube link is added it fetches this same image http://s.ytimg.com/yt/img/pixel-vfl3z5WfW.gif again and again.

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mathankumarc commented
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Added this line > ........but maybe his comment was for Drupal 6.x??

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icecreamyou commented

I think the emvideo submodule no longer exists in D7, but I'm not sure. Honestly the whole premise of depending on emfield for certain media types needs to be changed. I'm not sure linking to a video is even fixable in D7 as-is; but that's a separate issue.

The reason that clear pixel image is returned is because FBSMP looks for thumbnail images by getting the src attribute of all the img tags on the page. Youtube's logo is actually part of a sprite used as the background-image of the logo img tag, so that doesn't come up. Awkwardly there are not any other useful image tags on the page either, so probably what the emvideo integration did was to pull a thumbnail directly from the video. I am not sure there is a solution to this apart from setting a nice default thumbnail and explicitly ignoring thumbnails from YouTube.

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icecreamyou commented
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Added text formatting to make issue clearer.

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myselfhimself commented

Hello,

see issue #2189219 for a workaround !

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keith.penn27 commented
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Hello everyone! Has anyone found a solution for this issue? I have tried the work around that was referenced but it didn't work for me.