Is there anyway to play AVI files with ZEN Photo?

In version 1.1 I am not able to get a videothumb, it always shows the defaultvideothumb although I upload an image with the same name. eg. rug.flv and rug.jpg..

I thougt this should be possible or not?

in version 1.1.2 the videothumbs show up again...

wrong post!

There was a problem with custom video thumbs that was fixed in 1.1.2

I need a little help modifying the video code in version 1.1.2. In my previous version, 1.0.8.2 with the video hack added manually, I was able to modify the code to display the still image of the video I had uploaded instead of the video player initially not showing anything except a black screen with the play button. The code I was using doesn't work in the new version. Here is what I had before.

so.addVariable("image","http://www.sunkast.com.jpg");

That would produce the URL I needed to display the image in the video player. How can I do the same thing with the new version?

I worked out a solution for myself. For anyone that is looking to do the same, here is what I did.

In template-functions.php under "//ZenVideo: Show video player with video loaded or display the image." I added

`function getAlbumLink() {

global $_zp_current_album;

return urlencode($_zp_current_album->name);

}`

Then I added a new variable to the flash video player

so.addVariable("file","image=' . FULLWEBPATH . '/albums/' . getAlbumLink() . '/' . getImageTitle() . '.jpg");

On a side note, I've found an awesome gui frontend for ffmpeg to convert my videos into FLV. It's called WinFF. It's free and can also encode other media formats.