Cracking the YouTube Code

August 2, 2006 on 6:40 pm | In Youtube, video, videos |

YouTube, the biggest video sharing service online, seems to randomly select a frame within the video which users upload to use as the image or “poster” of your video… Or so people thought! A YouTube user, renetto, has figured out exactly which frame YouTube grabs, so now you can always select what image you want to represent your YouTube video.

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It seems that instead of a random frame within your movie, YouTube selects the frame which is right in the middle of your video. So, for example, if your YouTube video which you just uploaded is 120 seconds long, YouTube will automatically grab a frame from the 60th second mark which will become the face of your video.

Check out Renetto’s YouTube video discovery here:

Like Renetto says, YouTube should allow users to select which frame or image they wish their movie to be represented by.

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  1. I always thought that this was common knowledge?

    Comment by Adam — August 6, 2006 #

  2. Thanks, man! I was looking for this info!

    Comment by Andrey — January 27, 2007 #

  3. Just what the doctor ordered. I suspected that might be the case, but you’ve enabled me to post videos with slides in them without having a blank, black poster for the Confusionist community’s videos.

    Thanks.

    Comment by Papa Pope — April 22, 2007 #

  4. The guy in the video sounds so funny ;))) He helped me a lot, though :)

    Comment by grabIt! — December 27, 2007 #

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Cracking the YouTube Code

August 2, 2006 on 6:40 pm | In Youtube, video, videos |

YouTube, the biggest video sharing service online, seems to randomly select a frame within the video which users upload to use as the image or “poster” of your video… Or so people thought! A YouTube user, renetto, has figured out exactly which frame YouTube grabs, so now you can always select what image you want to represent your YouTube video.

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It seems that instead of a random frame within your movie, YouTube selects the frame which is right in the middle of your video. So, for example, if your YouTube video which you just uploaded is 120 seconds long, YouTube will automatically grab a frame from the 60th second mark which will become the face of your video.

Check out Renetto’s YouTube video discovery here:

Like Renetto says, YouTube should allow users to select which frame or image they wish their movie to be represented by.

4 Comments »

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  1. I always thought that this was common knowledge?

    Comment by Adam — August 6, 2006 #

  2. Thanks, man! I was looking for this info!

    Comment by Andrey — January 27, 2007 #

  3. Just what the doctor ordered. I suspected that might be the case, but you’ve enabled me to post videos with slides in them without having a blank, black poster for the Confusionist community’s videos.

    Thanks.

    Comment by Papa Pope — April 22, 2007 #

  4. The guy in the video sounds so funny ;))) He helped me a lot, though :)

    Comment by grabIt! — December 27, 2007 #

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