Jpeg fallback not used when webp is missing
timkinali opened this issue · comments
When the webp image is missing for a video, youtube serves their own fallback image in it's place. So, the webp-image is never really missing from the browsers point of view, which means that the JPG fallback is never used.
In my project this happens with quite a lot of videos. Any custom workarounds I could do to fix it? Perhaps there could be an option to disable webp?
Example, videoid FqpiXeG1eJg :
https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/FqpiXeG1eJg/hqdefault.webp // renders youtubes fallback image
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FqpiXeG1eJg/hqdefault.jpg // renders the correct image, but is never used
Hummmm interesting, I haven't seen this case outside of the lag of video processing. I think I can determine this and flip it, let me take a swing at it.
I’m seeing this on my end as well, FYI.
@justinribeiro have you found a fix for this issue? I'm running through the same problem as well.
I was curious if it's possible to nudge YouTube to generate the webp format for videos. No luck yet, but I did find someone asking about this on StackOverflow. Something to keep an eye on. For my own implementation of this, I'm currently considering rolling back to the JPEGs… :/