[Plugin: Video Thumbnails] Blip.tv thumbnails via a custom field

Hi Sutherland, great plugin. Many thanks for this contribution.

I adapted one of your functions to grab a Blip.tv video ID from a custom field (the ‘hZBPgqbXeQA’ bit of http://blip.tv/play/hZBPgqbXeQA for instance) and echo to my theme. Very basic (I’m a cut and paste coder!), but worked for what I was trying to achieve. Hopefully may help someone else.

function getBliptvThumb() {
global $post;
$blipID = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Video', true);
$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://blip.tv/players/episode/$blipID?skin=rss");
$result = $xml->xpath("/rss/channel/item/media:thumbnail/@url");
$thumbnail = (string) $result[0]['url'];
echo '<img src="'.$thumbnail.'" border="0" />';
}

Thanks again

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