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Poster image not working on Youtube video in HTML5 mode

It seems that whenever I embed a Youtube video, the poster image is not displayed when in HTML5 mode. Also on any iOS/Android device the poster image is not displayed. When I enable the Flash plugin on my desktop browser, the post image does show. Any help on this? I am using the 6.8 version of jwplayer in which my former Youtube issues have been resolved by the way.

I tried setting up a public example, but I don't know how to include the jwplayer sources, there seems to be a domain restriction, but you can see it on your Youtube demo-page: http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1406725-youtube-video-embed. Just set the player up again in the javascript console, including an image url. With flash, it shows. Without it, not.

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
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We fall back to the default YouTube player on devices, and for desktops, we don’t support YouTube HTML5 yet.

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rocco.janse

User  
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It seems that you do. YouTube gets iframed when I disable Flash in Firefox.
But there's going to be no poster-image for YouTube other than with flash then, I suppose?

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
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Yes. We are going to support YouTube in html5 officially in 6.9, due out in June.

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