[csclark]

We would definitely give it a try - Video Thumbnails can be tricky, as it makes all the difference for a user to view it or not.

For instance, generally the first second of video is blank, though taking a thumbnail at the middle is not necessarily representative.

[matthewarkin]

Yea, that is a tricky part. Most of the video encoding services can be configured to take a thumbnail at the beginning, at a user determined point, or every X seconds.

In my use case,I don't necessarily have any reason to have the entire video encoded and it adds an unnecessarily complicated structure.

Currently I just take a thumbnail .1 second in (this also allows me to utilize minimal bandwidth since I don't download the entire video), but it should be fairly easy to add a parameter