Video Thumbnails and Blip.tv

  • user65

    (@user65)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I am using YouTube and Blip.tv video links on my blog. The blip.tv videos are unable to generate thumbnails. All the youtube work fine. My theme uses a custom field for embeds, so I’ve set that setting in the config of Video Thumbnail.

    the custom field is video_link and after adding to the config I save changes, then try to scan. Only the YouTube links come back with a thumbnail.

    Thanks in advance

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

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  • Plugin Author Sutherland Boswell

    (@sutherlandboswell)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Hey there,

    Blip’s URLs are non-standard as far as I can tell (unlike YouTube), so the only way the plugin can detect a video from Blip is using the embed code. This should be a pretty easy fix, just try replacing line 122 (in v1.8)

    $markup = get_post_meta( $post_id, $video_key, true );

    with

    $markup = wp_oembed_get( get_post_meta( $post_id, $video_key, true ) );

    Thread Starter user65

    (@user65)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Worked like a charm!

    Thanks so much, Sutherland.

    — Edit

    Ahhh, now my page loads SOO MUCH FASTER – Thanks again!!!!

    Daedalon

    (@daedalon)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Should this be implemented in the upcoming plugin versions for Blip videos?

    Plugin Author Sutherland Boswell

    (@sutherlandboswell)

    14 years ago

    It will need an if statement (wp_oembed_get will return false if the field already has an embed code) but it’s something I’ll add.

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