# Poster image with SMIL and jwplayer.rss

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/poster-image-with-smil-and-jwplayer-rss/38455
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [April 10, 2012, 11:32am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/poster-image-with-smil-and-jwplayer-rss/38455 "2012-04-10T11:32:04Z")
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### Author: ![Josh\_Schoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Josh\_Schoenick](https://community.wowza.com/u/Josh_Schoenick)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 11:32am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/poster-image-with-smil-and-jwplayer-rss/38455/1 "2012-04-10T11:32:04Z")

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We are using JWPlayer and the newest version of Wowza server. We have successfully configured multi-bit-rate using an SMIL and the /jwplayer.rss method.

wow, were we stumped for a while not knowing the instance name was required, in our case _definst_, but we eventually figured that out too.

Our final hurdle is that we cannot get a preview image to display, and I think it’s because of the jwplayer.rss media RSS that is being read into the player doesn’t have the \<media:thumbnail url="" /\> node configured.

Is there any way to configure the SMIL file so that this node is added to the xml for each ABR stream?

**SMIL Code:**

**Renders this JWPlayerRSS:**

corp/WellnessMarch2012.smil

corp/WellnessMarch2012.smil

jwplayer:streamerrtmp://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1935/vod/_definst_\</jwplayer:streamer\>

media:group

\<media:content url=“mp4:corp/WellnessMarch2012.mp4” bitrate=“700” width=“640”/\>

\<media:content url=“mp4:corp/WellnessMarch2012.mp4” bitrate=“1000” width=“720”/\>

\</media:group\>

How do I get the SMIL to add the \<media:thumbnail url=""\> node? thanks

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### Author: ![Josh\_Schoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Josh\_Schoenick](https://community.wowza.com/u/Josh_Schoenick)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 11:34am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/poster-image-with-smil-and-jwplayer-rss/38455/2 "2012-04-10T11:34:40Z")

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Sorry, to be clear, I meant how do we add the media:thumbnail child node to the media:group node

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### Author: ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/poster-image-with-smil-and-jwplayer-rss/38455/3 "2012-04-11T21:06:05Z")

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There is not a built-in way to get a thumb-name from Wowza like this. I think you can use http url to a image on a web site.

To generate thumbnails, there is this

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-take-a-single-frame-snapshot-of-a-live-stream-for-thumbnail-creation-modulecreatesnapshot](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-take-a-single-frame-snapshot-of-a-live-stream-for-thumbnail-creation-modulecreatesnapshot)

And this for Transcoder:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-thumbnail-images-from-wowza-transcoder-with-an-http-provider](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-thumbnail-images-from-wowza-transcoder-with-an-http-provider)

But getting images to a web server and referencing in the rss is up to you.

Richard

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### Author: ![Josh\_Schoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Josh\_Schoenick](https://community.wowza.com/u/Josh_Schoenick)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/poster-image-with-smil-and-jwplayer-rss/38455/4 "2012-04-12T15:22:43Z")

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Thanks Richard. No worries, we went with a clientside mRSS instead of using the SMIL method. I was just hoping I could have included and tag along with the tags and had the /jwplayer.rss add the media:thumbnail. Perhaps a wishlist item.