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How to embed thumbnail preview url in SMIL

Hi Wowza Community,

We have a lot of SMIL’s already created for multiple Videos with many bitrates, currently we are serving the thumbnail url’s as stand alone url. Which IOS player is not able to showcase.

Subtitles are embedded in SMIL and thus can be played in IOS, so when we get a subtitle for a video we update the corresponding SMIL’s and this works fine.

My main question is, how can we serverpreview thumbnails via SMIL so that m3u8’s of the videos can give thumbnail preview details and a different url need not to be sent to the different clients like Android and IOS. In the same way that all clients play subtitles via m3u8’s.

Thanks