Hi there,

Currently, we have coded this where it will catch a screenshot of your videos at some amount of time. It is depended on your current videos as those videos, not rendering any images and only rendering black views on that amount of time.

Thanks for your understanding.

Hi Abdul,

There is a fade in from black in all videos.
So the poster image must be rendered automatically with one on the first frames of the video ???
Is it somehow possible to adjust this in the code ?

What about a feature for the future: Add a poster image manually ?

cheers
Michael

Hey Alexandra,

We don't really know exactly which frame has a picture, and this is why we always try to get the first frame of the video. If you want, you can edit the file /administrator/components/com_easysocial/includes/video/video.php and at line 1905, replace it with the correct frame.

Having said that, if you set the value to 00:00:10, if the video has a blank screen on the 10th frame, you will hit the same problem

Hi Mark,

You are talking about EasySocial. Is it the same with EasyBlog?

Hi there,

Oh, sorry for confusion on above reply. Currently, for Easyblog, we didn't do anything to the video, extract it files thumbnails and etc, as we only upload them to your site because Easyblog didn't use FFMPEG like Easysocial did.

Currently, it is based on HTML5 on how to render them on your site. It will shown you based on browsers itself to render them for you. By the way, we are looking/considering to add this options on our Easyblog in the future.

Thanks for your understanding.

Hi Abdul,

As I see it, you are using the video.js plugin for videos in Easyblog.
And some parameters for this plugin.

So I think the easiest way to add a poster would be to add a parameter for the poster as well.

Hi there,

Thanks for the input, We will see how we can implement this on order to improve this in the future release. Thanks for your understanding