[YouTube-API] Re: Is there an api to retrieve the dimensions of a youtube video clip based on id?

Hello Dick,

There's no way to determine the actual aspect ratio of the video via
the YouTube Data API response.

The thumbnails (I'm assuming that's what you mean by preview image?)
for a given video are all in specific dimensions, and those dimensions
are returned in the YouTube Data API response. E.g. from

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/u1zgFlCw8Aw?v=2&prettyprint=true

you get

<media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/u1zgFlCw8Aw/default.jpg'
height='90' width='120' time='00:02:09.500' yt:name='default'/>
<media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/u1zgFlCw8Aw/
hqdefault.jpg' height='360' width='480' yt:name='hqdefault'/>
<media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/u1zgFlCw8Aw/1.jpg'
height='90' width='120' time='00:01:04.750' yt:name='start'/>
<media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/u1zgFlCw8Aw/2.jpg'
height='90' width='120' time='00:02:09.500' yt:name='middle'/>
<media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/u1zgFlCw8Aw/3.jpg'
height='90' width='120' time='00:03:14.250' yt:name='end'/>

Cheers,-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Teamgroups.google.com/group/youtube-
api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com | @YouTubeDev

On Sep 26, 5:44 am, Dick Verweij <hpverw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Mr. Posnick,
>
> Thanks for your clear answer. What we need is the aspect ratio of the
> preview image. There is no way to retrieve that based on the id of a clip?
>
> Regards,

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