How to Display Video Thumbnails with Media Module

The Media module is great for managing media files such as images and videos on a Drupal website. Today I will discuss video handling, specifically how to display a video thumbnail.

In this video, you’ll learn how to display a thumbnail for videos that are hosted on YouTube and Vimeo. Then, we’ll look at how to change the video “preview” view mode.

Modules

• Media (7.x-1.3)
• Media: YouTube (7.x-2.0-rc3)
• Media: Vimeo (7.x-1.0-beta5)
• Ctools
• Views

drush dl media media_youtube media_vimeo ctools views

Resources

Example videos:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuSb9VNWXgk
• http://vimeo.com/18352872

Other mentioned modules:

• Entity view modes
• Display Suite