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20/50/70 What does it mean? (test)

(11 posts)
  • Started 11 months ago by Che Rambler
  • Latest reply from leonard

  1. Che Rambler
    Member

    How does YT select the hold photos?

    This is a test but I really want to know

    Posted 11 months ago #

  2. HotForWords
    Key Master

    They used to select them from the 25% mark, 50% mark and 75% mark.. but as of last week, the thumbnail positions are now randomly chosen, giving you a choice from 3 of those randomly chosen spots. This is to eliminate "thumbnail gaming" where the thumbnail has noting to do with the content of the video.

    Posted 11 months ago #

  3. quiggles
    Member

    M Blog works well. Q

    Posted 11 months ago #

  4. Che Rambler
    Member

    OK thanks for the answer Marina. The videos posted on the HFW website, do you have the freedom to choose you own hold photos?

    Posted 11 months ago #

  5. Fianchetto
    Member

    I'll second that query, Che, and add, "Yeh, and what's the little yellow marker that sometimes shows up along the bottom of the load/play-o-meter?" (On the twitter vid, it marks 00:11) - and I LLLOOOVVVEEE the Edit function!!!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! :D

    Posted 11 months ago #

  6. Che Rambler
    Member

    I wondered about the yellow marker myself.

    Posted 11 months ago #

  7. NerdWithNoLife
    Member

    I didn't know it was completely random now... last time I ran tests the image was chosen from approximately the 25/50/75 mark, but always sooner and as many as 50 frames before. But I did see YouTube's statement on it... will test again just because I like to see some hard data.

    Posted 11 months ago #

  8. NerdWithNoLife
    Member

    My test is inconclusive at this point because a video got stuck in processing (coincidence or conspiracy?). But I just noticed a new option to...

    Upload a thumbnail! I tried in on one of my videos where it was really hard to get a good thumbnail (Turkey Blast Game!) and so far it works with the tiny thumbnail that is shown when the video is listed with other videos, but not in the big thumbnail of an embedded video.

    Posted 11 months ago #

  9. NerdWithNoLife
    Member

    Okay, I got the test results back. My video was three minutes (5395 frames) and had each frame number printed on it, starting with frame 0. By math, the 25/50/75% images should have been 1348, 2697, and 4045. Instead, they were 1335 (13 frames too soon), 2685 (12 frames too soon), and 4035 (10 frames too soon). This is consistent with my previous tests.

    The thumbnail chosen by YT starts out too soon at the 25 mark, and the 50 and 75 thumbnails get closer, but not to where they should be. Sometimes they can be as far as 50 frames off, but they are always too soon. If I uploaded the same video I would get the same results, but if I uploaded a different video with the same amount of frames, the results would be different. So the YT randomizer "looks" at the video in some weird way. The length of the video can cause lots of odd results, but again: the image chosen is always too soon.

    So be glad there's now an option to upload a thumbnail!

    Posted 11 months ago #

  10. HotForWords
    Key Master

    The uploaded thumbnail actually does show up in the embedded video, it just takes hours for it to update on the embedded page.

    I think the embedded thumb doesn't show at the end of the video when it shows related videos.. there it uses the middle frame always I think.

    Posted 11 months ago #

  11. leonard
    Member

    write on---Emily is in bed-----embedded the tube-boobs

    Posted 2 months ago #

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