How to embed a youtube video and show an image instead of flash?

Question

In video gallerys YouTube shows images of the videos instead of the flash player. If you click on the image, you are redirected to a page where is the flash video player. I want to show the first static images.

How can I do that programmatically?

Answer 1

For Javascript: (I'm assuming you tagged it as flash because Youtube is a flash video player)

function getScreen( url, size )
{
  if(url === null){ return ""; }

  size = (size === null) ? "big" : size;
  var vid;
  var results;

  results = url.match("[\\?&]v=([^&#]*)");

  vid = ( results === null ) ? url : results[1];

  if(size == "small"){
    return "http://img.youtube.com/vi/"+vid+"/2.jpg";
  }else {
    return "http://img.youtube.com/vi/"+vid+"/0.jpg";
  }
}

Found here.

Going off of this function, basically you just have to take the v=ladlfasd parameter and put it in this url:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/(v= parameter)/2.jpg

Where it is 2.jpg for small, 0.jpg for large