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Approach: Sometimes the user wants to display a specific image of his choice as the thumbnail of the video. This can be simply done by using the poster attribute. All you have to do is create a poster attribute in the video tag and place the URL of the thumbnail image in it.
There is a simple video attribute that allows the use of pre-loaded images. The "poster" attribute defines a poster image that is in place of the video. Show activity on this post. The poster attribute specifies an image to be shown while the video is downloading, or until the user hits the play button.
Add poster="placeholder.png" to the video tag.
<video width="470" height="255" poster="placeholder.png" controls>
<source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="video.ogg" type="video/ogg">
<source src="video.webm" type="video/webm">
<object data="video.mp4" width="470" height="255">
<embed src="video.swf" width="470" height="255">
</object>
</video>
Does that work?
Add preload="metadata" to your video tag and the second of the first frame #t=0.5 to your video source:
<video width="400" controls="controls" preload="metadata">
<source src="https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4#t=0.5" type="video/mp4">
</video>If you want a video first frame as a thumbnail, than you can use
Add #t=0.1 to your video source, like below
<video width="320" height="240" controls>
<source src="video.mp4#t=0.1" type="video/mp4">
</video>
NOTE: make sure about your video type(ex: mp4, ogg, webm etc)
I found the solution that I got from your example and other examples and made this:
<video id="video1" width="470" height="264" poster="video_poster.jpg" onclick="playPause()">
<source src="video.mp4" width="470" height="264" type="video/mp4" >
<source src="video.webm" type="video/webm" >
<source src="video.ogv" type="video/ogg" >
<object id="FlashID" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="470" height="264" >
<param name="movie" value="video.swf" >
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="wmode" value="opaque">
<param name="swfversion" value="11.0.0.0">
<!-- This param tag prompts users with Flash Player 6.0 r65 and higher to download the latest version of Flash Player. Delete it if you don’t want users to see the prompt. -->
<param name="expressinstall" value="../../Scripts/expressInstall.swf">
<!-- Next object tag is for non-IE browsers. So hide it from IE using IECC. -->
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="video.swf" width="500" height="500">
<!--<![endif]-->
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="wmode" value="opaque">
<param name="swfversion" value="11.0.0.0">
<param name="expressinstall" value="../../Scripts/expressInstall.swf">
<!-- The browser displays the following alternative content for users with Flash Player 6.0 and older. -->
<div>
<h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
</div>
<!--[if !IE]>-->
</object>
<!--<![endif]-->
Unfortunately Your browser is old and does not support full video experience.
</object>
</video>
<script>
var myVideo=document.getElementById("video1");
var att=document.createAttribute("poster");
if (myVideo.error) {
switch (myVideo.error.code) {
case MEDIA_ERR_NETWORK:alert("Network error - please try again later.");break;
case MEDIA_ERR_DECODE:alert("Video is broken.."); break;
case MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED:alert("Sorry, your browser can't play this video."); break;
}
}
else
{
function playPause()
{
if (myVideo.paused)
{
myVideo.play();
att.value="";
myVideo.setAttributeNode(att);
}
else myVideo.pause();
}
}
</script>
Fantastic work. Thanks!
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