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[whyboris]

It's not clear to me why anyone would want this option, but I had a user request it 🤷‍♂

It's technically feasible. For ease of UI we could have the app receive drag-drop events, and if the event happens over a particular thumbnail, we'll just swap in* the image.

* ffmpeg already can handle an image resize, so it shouldn't be too problematic 😅

[cal2195]

Hmmm, my only issue here is that recreating the hub, you'll lose this information - currently you can delete the thumbnail "cache", and recreate it all without any consequences! 🤔

I wonder what the usecase is... A better idea might be to autodetect a file named video_cover.jpg or something along those lines next to the video.mp4 and use that instead - overcomes my above issue, and is scripting-friendly like my tag feature! (I don't recall if I've merged that yet or not...)

[cal2195]

#178 This one! 😄

[whyboris]

This sounds like a good option as well, though it forces users to format things a certain way.

I would reach out to the user who requested this feature before developing - just to get a sense of why / when they would be interested in using it 👍

ps -- this is for the Ideas Milestone 👌 -- no sooner 😅

[whyboris]

The gentleman who requested the feature initially emailed me recently expressing he's looking forward to the version 2 and was wondering if I'd thought about including the option to replace the main image. I asked if drag-and-drop is a decent-enough interface and he said that would be great.

Turns out ❤️ Angular ❤️ makes detecting drop events stupid easy: just add (drop)=someFunc(event) in your code and you're done.

So I'm going to include this feature in 2.0.0 😉

[whyboris]

Solved with #238 😎