Vimeo Thumbnail Size

  • Resolved Geet Jacobs

    (@geetjacobs)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    This might be related to their new player or something else…

    but the thumbnails that are getting added from Vimeo are 295px wide, I tried debugging and “✔ Thumbnail found! View full size” is the same max size.

    Looking at the Vimeo API, it seems it is pulling the thumbnail_medium size.

    I tried changing the default image for the videos to see if that might fix it. Is this an issue with my video sizes or something changed in their API?

    Thanks!

    EDIT: I just double checked and the issue might be the original movie size being 580×326, which is not as big as the “large” thumbnail size of 640×480.

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/

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  • Plugin Author Sutherland Boswell

    (@sutherlandboswell)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Can you share one of the videos where thumbnails are small?

    Thread Starter Geet Jacobs

    (@geetjacobs)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Here you go, thank you for the assistance.

    Plugin Author Sutherland Boswell

    (@sutherlandboswell)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    The Vimeo Simple API is providing a larger thumbnail for that specific video, but Video Thumbnails uses Vimeo’s oEmbed API by default because it supports thumbnails up to 1280px wide.

    As you’ve discovered, it looks like if the video is below a certain resolution the oEmbed API provides a smaller thumbnail (you can see the API response here).

    But there’s good news! If you enter API credentials in the provider settings in Video Thumbnails, it will use Vimeo’s Advanced API and you should be able to get the 640px wide thumbnails. I hope this fixes your issue and that you’ll leave a review!

    Thread Starter Geet Jacobs

    (@geetjacobs)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Ok, you are awesome, that worked perfectly.

    Thank you for your time and excellent plugin.

    Plugin Author Sutherland Boswell

    (@sutherlandboswell)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Thank you! Glad it was an easy fix.

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