YouTube Thumbnails occasionally display as pixelated grey box

[froboy]

Drupal will occasionally display a low resolution "grey box" image instead of a proper thumbnail. This seems to happen when the video is not high enough resolution.

For example:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m206494liG8/maxresdefault.jpg - grey box
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m206494liG8/sddefault.jpg - smaller thumbnail that displays correctly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m206494liG8 - original video

More info at https://stackoverflow.com/a/18029637/2566038
This seems like a default of the https://github.com/andrewvasilchuk/vue-lazy-youtube-video library that's being used and might need to be resolved there.

[froboy]

I've confirmed that a temporary fix for this is adding a large (greater than 1280×720px) thumbnail via YouTube's video editor will resolve this issue.

[hamrant]

@froboy can we close this issue? Looks like this not related to VY

[sarah-halby]

@hamrant & @froboy is this still an issue with the new video player? If it is not, let's close this issue.

[hamrant]

@sarah-halby I think this problem was on YouTube side, let's close issue after @froboy confirmation

[froboy]

I tested on the sandbox and the issue seems to be resolved with the new video player. I can't point to a specific commit, but it's good.