Topic on Extension talk:TimedMediaHandler

I see from the extension page that

[[File:Video.ogv|File:Video.ogv]]

"Display a video at its nominal size. Displays a still image from the midpoint with a play button to start an embedded player."

My first question is, why does the file have to be specified twice? When I specify it just once, it seems to work just fine. So I'm not sure what I am missing.

But my real question is, "Is there ay way to override the the default behavior of displaying a still image from the midpoint of the video?" I have uploaded a hero / poster image from the video as an image file. But I can't see any syntax that let's me specify it as the image to use.

Is this possible?

My first question is, why does the file have to be specified twice? When I specify it just once, it seems to work just fine. So I'm not sure what I am missing.

The second occurrence is actually the caption, I have no idea why the examples look like this.

Is there ay way to override the the default behavior of displaying a still image from the midpoint of the video?

It is possible to override which frame of the video to display (using |thumbtime=). It is not possible to display a completely different image. (I’m not the developer who made this decision, but to be honest, I like that it’s this way: I always find it annoying when I click on a YouTube video, and the scene visible on the thumbnail – because of which I clicked on it – doesn’t come up at all in the video. With TimedMediaHandler’s restrictions, this couldn’t happen.)

Thank you for the response. I was so hung up on specifying an alternate image file the way YouTube lets do that I completely skipped over the thumbtime parameter. I can live with that.

I've corrected the examples (will take some time to update due to the translations)