Hi! I am trying to embed some videos to my app. I have been using videos uploaded on google drive for the same. The video viewing experience on glide is sub-par with other players in the market. For the first 2-3 seconds, the videos buffer and the thumbnail is also not visible. This results in high…

[image] Thumbnails for Videos in Google Drive Feature Requests Hello everybody, I’ve been playing around with Glide for a long time but never really came across something I couldn’t figure out. Until today So I am building a video-course type app where users browse trough…

Please refer to this screen recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-uYK-R4OkAtWEzPHldB7bke9lCOxdADG/view?usp=sharing The green image that appears at the end is the thumbnail of the google drive video. It took 7 seconds to load the video with thumbnail set by google drive.

We can’t see the recording, no access.

Yes, I can see it now. Can I have a link to the app so I can test on iOS?

Here’s the link: https://gusty-support-2605.glideapp.io/

No problems loading on Android. Loaded the entire app within 6 seconds of clicking the app link. No buffering when I playing the video.

Same here. at most 6-7 seconds for me.

I see. It might be my internet connection then because the issue persists with me (as would be for my users).

I did notice in your video that the little spinning loading wheel for the initial loading of the glide app wasn’t spinning. Not sure why, or if that would indicate a slow connection or device issue. You could do some experiments with one video or no videos and just some text. Just to see if that …

Option to upload thumbnail for videos

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Jeff_Hager September 3, 2020, 9:35pm 2

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