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How do you embed a video on your personal website and have the player show a thumbnail of it? Like YouTube vids do? When we attach the player to our site it just shows a black box.
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Re: Tech Question
Without looking too much into it - it could be the time frame the thumbnail is set to display, as typically the first frame is black?
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Hmm, I wonder how one would go about changing that. My partner is pretty good about figuring this stuff out, but I figured I try to giver her a head start if I could. Currently we're linking the vid from YouTube, the problems with that are that it's got the YT watermark on it and then at the end it displays a bunch of "related" vids that are not appropriate for our purposes.
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You have to right click on the url, paste it into your sock drawer, blink your eyes 26 times (no more, no less) crack the knuckles on both thumbs and say three Hail Mary's while standing on a pogo ball (not jumping). That should do it.Halgar wrote:How do you embed a video on your personal website and have the player show a thumbnail of it? Like YouTube vids do? When we attach the player to our site it just shows a black box.
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I have absolutely no idea and felt like making a stupid answer up right now.

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ahhhh the irony of such a post in a thread started by halgarMelvinsArmy wrote:Halgar wrote: I have absolutely no idea and felt like making a stupid answer up right now.But, I'd try my first reply anyway and see if it works.
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If it had been started by anyone else, i couldn't have come up with such a silly answer.aconsola wrote:ahhhh the irony of such a post in a thread started by halgarMelvinsArmy wrote:Halgar wrote: I have absolutely no idea and felt like making a stupid answer up right now.But, I'd try my first reply anyway and see if it works.

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I suppose I deserved that. I'll still try the pogo stick thing, just in case. 

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Re: Tech Question
host it on photobucket, will at least not have the ads etc then

not sure how to embed it to play in situ though.

not sure how to embed it to play in situ though.
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There's an idea! We'll definitely want to keep it resident and not bounce out to the host, but I'm liking it!
Probably by using the html code provided with the vid would insert it into the site without bouncing out.
Thanks for the tip. I guess this means I can't pick on ya for a while ...

Probably by using the html code provided with the vid would insert it into the site without bouncing out.
Thanks for the tip. I guess this means I can't pick on ya for a while ...



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HA! one member you can't pick on for awhile...with all the members on the site I'm sure you'll still have something to 'pick'Halgar wrote: I guess this means I can't pick on ya for a while ...![]()
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klavy69 wrote:HA! one member you can't pick on for awhile...with all the members on the site I'm sure you'll still have something to 'pick'Halgar wrote: I guess this means I can't pick on ya for a while ...![]()
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see... didn't take you but 11 minutes to come up with an alternative standbyHalgar wrote:
Where's Temple? He likes it when I pick on him!

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Can't pick on him if he's not here. Well, I can it just isnt as much fun. 

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