When playing back videos on YouTube, you are probably familiar with the small tooltip that shows up while hovering over the progress bar to help you jump to a specific time in the video. It looks like the tooltip is enhanced with a thumbnail of the corresponding video frame, to give a preview of the section you will be taken to. The new feature is available with the Flash-based player and only on some videos; it’s hard to say how there were chosen, but the thumbnail generation is probably an ongoing process that will be rolled out to all videos in the future.
13 December 2011
Thumbnails in YouTube’s progress bar
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Hi George, This is a wonderful tip! I'm watching a video now from the YouTube partner channel that discusses the updates. Most of them apply to everyone not just partners.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCAju9Gotx8
Wow, that's a really long video! :)
ReplyDeleteBut it looks interesting, I will watch it sometime later. Thanks for sharing it, Ileane!