Title: Thumbnail without server side plugins
Last modified: December 22, 2016

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# Thumbnail without server side plugins

 *  [mpeivandi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpeivandi/)
 * (@mpeivandi)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-without-server-side-plugins/)
 * Hi,
    I was wondering if it is possible to genertate thumbnails without having
   the necessities on the server ( well, the host is shared). Please advise.

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 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-without-server-side-plugins/#post-8584959)
 * Yes. The main requirement for thumbnails is that the video must be playable in
   your browser, so without any special server-side software you can make thumbnails
   from MP4 WEBM or OGV videos in most web browsers. Have you tried making thumbnails
   with my plugin and it doesn’t work?
 *  Thread Starter [mpeivandi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpeivandi/)
 * (@mpeivandi)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-without-server-side-plugins/#post-8584993)
 * Thank you for the response. Actually it is working with internal uploads, yet
   the check box for setting the thumbnail as featured image is disabled, any ideas
   why?
    And the thing which is of most importance to me is the “Embed Video from
   URL”. In that section, I paste a direct link and doesn’t matter how much I wait,
   no thumbnail is generated. Can you please help me with these two problems I have?
   Oh, BTW the format is MP4 480p AVC, H264.
 *  Thread Starter [mpeivandi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpeivandi/)
 * (@mpeivandi)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-without-server-side-plugins/#post-8595187)
 * So any ideas? Is there a special codec or something which should be installed
   on windows?
 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-without-server-side-plugins/#post-8598778)
 * Generating thumbnails in the Embed Video from URL tab requires FFMPEG. If you
   don’t have FFMPEG, the plugin uses a `<canvas>` element to create the thumgnail,
   which doesn’t allow saving images to the server when the video comes from another
   domain, for security reasons I don’t control.
 * The featured image checkbox being disabled is a bug. Thank you for bringing it
   to my attention.
 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-without-server-side-plugins/#post-8622595)
 * Today’s update version 4.6.13 should fix the disabled featured image checkbox.

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 * Last reply from: [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-without-server-side-plugins/#post-8622595)
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