Video content should be given with a wallpaper

[kelson42]

If I try to look to a video, I get this (before clicking on the "play" button)

I want to have a proper image displayed in place of this grey box.

Either this is delivered in the json or we should find a way to capture one from the video stream.

[rgaudin]

The player displays the first frame of the video as cover. This series of videos happen to start with a blank grey image.

We could extract any random frame to create a dedicated thumbnail but we'd loose control over what gets picked up while every video tool uses the first frame (unless they allow choosing one). That's what's expected.

I am thus in favor of closing this. We could remove the blank frames and redo this ZIM as well.

[kelson42]

Not sure how the solution should look like but I know we should not display a grey or black box for a video.

Using the first frame of a video is not what I expect, and it's not how it works usually. See Youtube, Netflix, etc.

I think the reason is obvious: it's just not what user expect, they want to get a picture which give an idea - is representive - of the content.

We should:

• either find a way to encourage publish to submit a poster
• find a smart algo to capture automatically a representive frame of the video

[rgaudin]

Closing in favor of #56 #57