user tip Removing Black Bars from Youtube Thumbnails

I have a bunch of videos uploaded to youtube in 1920 X 1080 resolution but when I add them to my Jamroom site the thumbnails all have black bars at top and bottom

Tonight I stumbled on a way to remove them - but have only tested on my 1920x1080's

Download the free "Template Injection" module from the marketplace then add this to the "Template Injection" text box and save

Really all this seems to be doing is changing the "h" in hqdefault.jpg to an "m" in mqdefault.jpg

If you look at a YT video in the datastore if its like mine you will see:

youtube_aretwork_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AdttvLChEkw/hqdefault.jpg

but what you WANT it to say is

youtube_aretwork_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AdttvLChEkw/mqdefault.jpg

If you click either of those image links you should see the difference

Anyways- if you have the black bars in thumbnails and its REALLY messing up your combined video templates like it was mine-just download the template Injection module and add the
and they should be gone
Hope this helps someone_ Thanks Michael for helping me with this!

updated by @derrickhand300: 03/12/16 04:30:31AM

Nice tip - and great use of the Template Injection module!


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Perhaps I'm missing something, but I tried that on my site and it didn't work.
http://animatedfilmmakers.com/devilsangelsanddating/videos

Any thoughts?

right click and see what URL the image is using, on your site its set to:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/AklEEuRKpnc/0.jpg

so the replace that tries to replace any hqdefault.jpg with mqdefault.jpg wont be found in that url, so wont be replaced.

So for you the code would be:

There are many ways to do the same thing. The better solution for you is the one I posted in the other thread:
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/new_posts/36009/grid-of-videos#p36132

Thank you. That worked. I guess I use the same deductive reasoning to fix the Vimeo thumbnails that now seem to be broken.

Yep, that introduced a new bug, go with the other option:

Thanks Michael... videos borders fixed.