Hello, I see that WikiMedia takes the still image from the halfway point of the video. For example, my video is 1.30 in length and the still image was selected at the 45 second point. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Snyder Content Developer, Open Yale Courses Yale University - ITS Shared Academic Solutions 25 Science Park | 150 Munson St. | New Haven, CT 06520 Tel: 203.436.8427 | http://oyc.yale.edu | http://cmi2.yale.edu =============================== NOTE: Yale ITS will NEVER request passwords or other personal information via email. Messages requesting such information are fraudulent and should be deleted. On 11/8/11 9:17 AM, "Snyder, Matthew"<matthew.snyder(a)yale.edu> wrote: Hello, I am having some trouble trying to find a way to change the thumbnail display after I upload a video. It seems that after I upload, there is no way to further manipulate the video file. I have a series of videos that I would like to upload, but I must ensure that I will have some control as to what the thumbnail will look like. My assumption is that WikiMedia auto-selects a point in the video to choose a thumbnail? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Snyder Content Developer, Open Yale Courses Yale University - ITS Shared Academic Solutions 25 Science Park | 150 Munson St. | New Haven, CT 06520 Tel: 203.436.8427 | http://oyc.yale.edu | http://cmi2.yale.edu =============================== NOTE: Yale ITS will NEVER request passwords or other personal information via email. Messages requesting such information are fraudulent and should be deleted. _______________________________________________ Wikivideo-l mailing list Wikivideo-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l

Hi Matthew, will look like. It's not much, but as a fellow stickler for thumbnail quality (inc. animated gifs) I sometimes run a manual ffmpeg/avconv command on a local machine then overwrite the thumbnail on the server via SSH. It's also neat to build wiki pages akin to the following:  http://openmeetings.org/wiki/OMwiki:Finding_aid Sincerely, George _______________________________________________ Wikivideo-l mailing list Wikivideo-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l