Animated thumbnails

[dimqua]

It should be possible to implement them. If you don't get what I talking about, go to hooktube.com and point the cursor at any video thumbnail.

• start: hq, sd, maxres
• middle: hq, sd, maxres
• end: hq, sd, maxres

Related to #170.

[omarroth]

Interesting to note is that YouTube provides animated thumbnails as webp, although they are signed in a similar way to video urls. These two questions on SO provide some more information on how they work. It is not possible to generate those and YouTube will only provide them in certain circumstances. I assume that's why Hooktube instead uses {1..3}.jpg.

Unfortunately since it's not possible to access the animated previews provided by YouTube it would be necessary to use JS to implement them. Expect there to be a user preference to switch between Regular, High-Res, and Animated.

[corona-nova]

there are were grease-monkey scripts that did that also for youtube but it hasn't been updated

this feature might help avoid click-bait videos

maybe animate the thumbnails on mouse hover of the videos section (use heuristics to guess when hover would occur, so may fetch the thumbnails ahead of time to reduce latency)

[elypter]

make it so that you see the animations when pressing a hotkey

[paulaime]

The browser extension for YouTube, Iridium offers the option to play videos by hovering over the thumbnails. They also propose an option where pressing the Shift key toggles audio on video thumbnail playback. I really like these two options and it could be really great to implement them in Invidious.

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[syeopite]

This is an valid feature request that really shouldn't be closed.

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