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Thumbnails of videos are not showing | Forum

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Peter Guo
Peter Guo Dec 20 '12
I added a few videos to my site, but the thumbnails are not showing. Did I do something wrong?


Thanks for help

ed claassen
ed claassen Dec 20 '12

did you Write permissions 777 to:

  ow_pluginfiles/
  ow_userfiles/
  ow_static/
  ow_smarty/template_c

and all the maps under it?

The Forum post is edited by ed claassen Dec 20 '12
Alia Team
Alia Dec 20 '12
Peter,  from where did you get embed code of your video? Was it from youtube?
peter guo
peter guo Jan 4 '13
Hi, Aliia,

Not from youtube.

ed claassen,
I am pretty new to oxwall.
What do you mean "and all the maps under it?"? Which is "it", and what is "maps"?Thanks again.

Piers J
Piers J Jan 4 '13
With non youtube embeds  how can one show thumbnail ?  i have many on my site without thumbnails and its difficult to share.
Alia Team
Alia Jan 6 '13

>>peter guo Jan 4

Hi, Aliia,Not from youtube.


Oxwall doesn't support all video resources. Check this link for more information: http://docs.oxwall.org/...showing-on-main-page