Resu wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 4:20 pm
@Isaac
would you show me how to share a youtube video with thumbnail here?
This site does not host images, so you first need an image host. I have arbitrarily picked imgbox.com—just noticed them today.
When I do this with Youtube, I click the
share>>
embed option on the YT video player, and screenshot the page for my thumbnail image; cropping it down to just the YT Player image.
Then upload that to the image host, and then post the Youtube link URL for the video, using an IMG tag within, instead of the usual text.
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[URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ5bp6tGMj4][IMG]https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/00/3d/kBTLxvrf_t.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
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Now it does appear to be possible to use Youtube's own hosted thumbnail for the video, but it lacks the player UI,
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[URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ5bp6tGMj4][IMG]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MQ5bp6tGMj4/maxresdefault.jpg[/IMG][/URL]