gary oldmans diary posted:

In SA, I have the user option "Show video embedded in posts with the [video] tag?" set to No and use 2 scripts.
One I wrote to replace text Youtube links with thumbnails so I get the video preview without using the resources of an embedded player for every link (handy when the same video is quoted a dozen times on a single page.

code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        SA YT Links Thumbed
// @namespace   [url]http://*.somethingawful.com[/url]
// @description Uses YT links to show thumbnails
// @include     [url]http://forums.somethingawful.com/*[/url]
// @version     0.1
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==

var vidList = document.getElementsByClassName('bbtag_video');

for (var i = 0; i < vidList.length; i++) {
    var p = /^.*youtube\.com\/watch\?v=([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11}).*$/;
    var vidId = (vidList[i].innerHTML.match(p));
    if (vidId[1] == false) continue;
    var image = document.createElement('img');
    image.setAttribute('src', 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/' + vidId[1] + '/hqdefault.jpg');
    vidList[i].innerHTML = '';
    vidList[i].appendChild(image);
}

The other script is Youtube Link Title which embeds a floating video player (for numerous streaming sites) when you click a video link.

This setup works really well. Just the way I wanted it to.