there's a tendency for pages to be reloaded in the background. I
wonder if that causes the swap that you're seeing:
http://stormchild.tumblr.com/post/10414883514/how-to-stop-safari-5-from-unexpectedly-reloading-pages
Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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On Sep 15, 5:04 pm, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've heard back from the Players team that currently a video's title,
> duration, and high-resolution thumbnail aren't always available when
> an embed first loads. (The normal-resolution thumbnail should always
> be available, though.)
>
> That being said, they are not aware of any scenario in which the high-
> resolution thumbnail would be initially available and then the embed
> would suddenly swap in the normal-resolution version after a period of
> time. The only way they believe that would happen is if the player's
> content was reloaded during that period of time.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> @YouTubeDev
>
> On Sep 12, 8:46 pm, Klementine <klementinecsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi
> > On a regular embed, be it iframe or object, if the video has a hi
> > resolution image and correct size player is chosen, then that hi res
> > image will be shown. No problem with that.
> > The problem is that it doesnt work as advertised. For whatever reason,
> > its plauged by the same oddity that occurs with "showinfo". And that
> > is: if the video hasn't been recently viewed (aproximatly 1 hour) then
> > the "hqdefault.jpg" rather than the "maxresdefault.jpg". And this is
> > consistant.
> > .
> > So I need to ask - not so much why, but is there a way to avoid it and
> > ALWAYS get the maxresdefault?
> > If we embed it through API javascript, is there a way to specify
> > (force) the maxresdefault?
> > OR - would embedding through API javascript avoid the problem/symptom
> > altogether?
> > .
> > Because as video quality is getting better, monitors are getting
> > larger, and embedded videos are getting bigger dimensions, the idea
> > they came up with is nice. But if its going to time out after an hour
> > then why even bother. .
> > Thank you very much for your time.
> > K-)video has a hi resolution image and correct size player is chosen,
> > then that hi res image will be shown. No problem with that.
> > The problem is that it doesnt work as advertised. For whatever reason,
> > its plauged by the same oddity that occurs with "showinfo". And that
> > is: if the video hasn't been recently viewed (aproximatly 1 hour) then
> > the "hqdefault.jpg" rather than the "maxresdefault.jpg". And this is
> > consistant.
> > .
> > So I need to ask - not so much why, but is there a way to avoid it and
> > ALWAYS get the maxresdefault?
> > If we embed it through API javascript, is there a way to specify
> > (force) the maxresdefault?
> > OR - would embedding through API javascript avoid the problem/symptom
> > altogether?
> > .
> > Because as video quality is getting better, monitors are getting
> > larger, and embedded videos are getting bigger dimensions, the idea
> > they came up with is nice. But if its going to time out after an hour
> > then why even bother. .
> > Thank you very much for your time.
> > K-)
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