Fixed Youtube Video Import, Grabbing wrong thumbnail

[rdn]

Sample URL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-xmom7Q_l8

See it here also tried: https://xenforo.com/community/media/categories/test-images.1/

 

[rdn]

I mean using this thumbnail:

 

[Mike]

This is actually what YT is showing as the thumb for this video:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/UKY3scPIMd8/sddefault.jpg (from http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/F-xmom7Q_l8?v=2&alt=json)

 

[Mike]

I see this being returned by other videos as well. It feels like it might be a YT bug but I think more debugging may be needed.

 

[rdn]

And why is that? :/

 

[rdn]

Yes, it happens maybe 80% of my youtube videos imported.

 

[rdn]

I think because of the new API: http://youtube-eng.blogspot.ca/2015/04/bye-bye-youtube-data-api-v2.html

 

[rdn]

hqdefault.jpg

What other variables I can use on this?
Like a smaller thumbnail.

 

[Chris D]

There'd be no benefit to that as we already resize and compress the thumbnail down to the correct size. It's best to start off as high resolution as possible, then whatever settings you have for the thumbnail sizes will dictate the eventual resolution and file size of the thumbnail.

With an even smaller thumbnail, XFMG would end up scaling it up to the right size which would look pretty poor.

 

[rdn]

Thanks a lot for the workaround

 

[Mike]

Due to the API alternative that's in the code appearing to be less consistent with more recent videos, we have just updated the package with a fix to this. The version number listed in the control panel is now 1.0.5a to distinguish that it has been patched.

If you have already upgraded to 1.0.5, you can replace library/XenGallery/Thumbnail/YouTube.php with the version attached to fix it. (Note that this is preferable to the previously posted workaround.)

 

[Chris D]

If you applied the previous workaround (now deleted), then please go to Admin CP > Applications > Gallery Options > Media Site Options ensure the textbox next to the YouTube drop down reads as follows:

XenGallery_Thumbnail_YouTube

 

[rdn]

I tried again, but still showing previous thumbnail: https://xenforo.com/community/media/categories/test-images.1/
Still not yet updated the code here?

 

[rdn]

I even updated my Live Forum Site code, but still showing the wrong thumbnail.

 

[Chris D]

The thumbnail is cached, so for any affected videos you can go to the media, click "Change Media Thubmnail" and click the "Delete" checkbox. That should re-download the thumbnail for you.

We're not running the updated code here yet.