Fixed Vimeo embed: thumbnails contain baked-in play button

[marquisite]

Affected version

2.1

I've noticed that videos embedded from Vimeo end up having a play button baked into the thumbnail. For example, a new media site video embed (added by me for testing purposes) has this local thumbnail:

Or see it in the test images and embeds XFMG category: https://xenforo.com/community/media/categories/test-images-and-media-embeds.1/


On inspecting Vimeo's oEmbed JSON response there are thumbnails with and without the play button. For the example video embed above, you can view the JSON yourself:
https://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url=https%3A//vimeo.com/100731066

Right now the thumbnail_url_with_play_button seems to what XFMG is fetching (and what Vimeo is pointing to as the og:image). thumbnail_url would IMO be best. The difference in URLs for the above example video are:

• With play button: https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/482303100.jpg&src1=http://f.vimeocdn.com/p/images/crawler_play.png
• Without play button: https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/482303100.jpg

 

[XF Bug Bot]

Thank you for reporting this issue. It has now been resolved and we are aiming to include it in a future XFMG release (2.1.0 RC2).

Change log:

Use the Vimeo oEmbed API to get a version of the thumbnail without a play button (if possible).

Any changes made as a result of this issue being resolved may not be rolled out here until later.