Thumbnail preview of embedded videos?

Tiny Tiny RSS Themes and Plugins
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I’ve been poking around on the forum to see if there’s a way to do this. Would it be possible to both allow for a thumbnail preview of a youtube video on the app and the desktop natively, make a theme that would be more mobile-friendly to support what I have figured out on the desktop, or a plugin that would be able to help with this? I’ve been hitting my head against a wall getting the ttrss working on my phone and it’s almost perfect. So far I have:

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Which still isn’t super ideal since there’s a lot of verticle space being taken up by the embedded link. I’m trying to go for something like what feedly has:
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EDIT: Here’s a screenshot of what I’ve gotten working on my phone. I can’t seem to get the thumbnail preview of the embedded video to work.
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https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/ttrss-youtube-thumb

people like this? what with those two vast columns of black nothing? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

p.s. you can also play around with this https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/ttrss-card-view

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The cards are great! I really like them. But the thumbnail preview doesn’t work on mobile. If it doesn’t work there, it doesn’t really feel like there’s much point. Is there a way to adjust the ttrss app for the thumbnail to appear in the content preview or the headline?

edit:Sorry for the delete, forgot to click reply.

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Hello everyone,

First of all, thanks for this great piece of software :slight_smile:

+1 for me. Great to have thumbnails on the browser but no way to have them on the mobile app.

Does anyone have an idea to do so ? I tried with feediron but can’t do it.

Tried also to play around with [https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/ttrss-youtube-thumb] but couldn’t either.

Thanks and have a nice day

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I use this quick and dirty article filter plugin to add the youtube iframe (specifically for use on android) GitHub - dugite-code/youtubeframes: TT-RSS Plugin that embeds Youtube videos using iframes I then have some custom css to clean up the double iframe issue (caused because the youtube video is in the media section rather than the article section of the RSS feed). Can’t remember what is needed for it but this is all my custom css.

.intermediate .youtube-player {
display: none !important
}

iframe {
  max-width: 640px !important;
  max-height: 360px !important;
}

.content-inner {
  line-height: normal;
}

.content-shrink-wrap img {
  max-height: 100px;
  float: left;
  padding-right: 20px;
  padding-bottom: 10px;
}

.title {
  font-size: x-large !important;
}

.content-shrink-wrap {
  font-size: smaller;
  max-height: 200px;
  line-height: normal;
  column-width: 900px;
}

.embed-responsive{
  padding-bottom: 360px !important;
}

Could I do a better plugin that is less jank? Yes. Would it take me more than the 30 minutes I needed for this? Also Yes.

TBH that plugin by fox looks much better than what I’m doing.

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https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/ttrss-youtube-thumb/commit/930ad7292a3d1cdd57edd4fc6ea88bfe67d62579

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Hello,

Thanks @dugite-code. I tried your plugin and then your custom css but couldn’t make it work on android app. I only add bigger fonts on the browser version.

I then saw the @fox answer and that is perfect : thanks again :slight_smile: That works like a charm