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YouTube thumbnails now low-res

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  • Deborah 3 years, 7 months ago

    Hi. Since an FV Player update a while back (maybe a month or 2) all of my YouTube thumbnails appear blurry/very low-res on all posts and pages. I’ve tried replacing the detected thumbnail with the URL to one in my image gallery but that does not resolve the problem.

    My thumbnails are always created as 1280×720. They look completely normal on YouTube, but all videos on my site as viewed with FV Player have blurry low-res thumbnail images.

    Example: https://guitaranimal.com/build/custom-pirate-esquire

    How can I resolve this? Thank you?

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  • Martin 4 years ago

    Hello Deborah,

    please set up the YouTube API key according to the steps here: https://foliovision.com/player/video-hosting/youtube-with-fv-player#Connecting-with-Google

    Without proper API key we can only use the default YouTube splash images paths which always work with the mqdefault.jpg file name to get the lower quality picture. We could use maxresdefault.jpg instead, but that would fail in about 10% of cases.

    Once you have the API key in place it might already show the properly size image. But please let us know how are you posting that video on https://guitaranimal.com/build/custom-pirate-esquire – It appears to be a bare [fvplayer src="..."] shortcode. We might need to build a button to purge the cache of the YouTube splash images.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Deborah 4 years ago

    Thank you for the response. The API key was already in place. I created another to make sure it was properly done. The thumbnails have always detected maxresdefault.jpg and that is still the same now. And the thumbnails are all still low res and blurry.

    The videos are all posted with the shortcode. For example: [fvplayer id="211"]

    2021-09-21_11-40-04
    2021-09-21_11-40-04
    Deborah 4 years ago

    I should also add that even when I add the thumbnail manually to the video post, it is still blurry. For example this one: https://guitaranimal.com/learn/all-right-now/free/

    It’s set in FV player to use this URL: https://guitaranimal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/All-Right-Now-1.jpeg

    This started happening after an update and affected every post (hundreds of them).

    Thanks again for any help you can provide.

    Martin 4 years ago

    Hello Deborah,

    thank you for all these details. However –

    The image in the FV Player editor screenshot seems fine to me. So it seems to me it’s failing to pull the image from the editor.

    Please deactivate and delete the FV Player Pro plugin you are using, then hit “Install Pro extension” at the top of the wp-admin -> Settings -> FV Player screen. That will reinstall the plugin and the issue should be fixed.

    I removed some old code, right now I’m sure why it started acting up like this.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Deborah 4 years ago

    Perfection! That worked. Thank you so much!

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