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YouTube thumbnail animator
Animates YouTube movie thumbnails between three snapshots.
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The script is updated per my comment below.
Jeremy: definitely possible, but not something I'd use, so not something I'll code. For whoever wants to do this, though, it should just be a matter of adding appropriate mouseover and mouseout events, creating intervals on mouseover and stopping them (and resetting the thumbnail?) on mouseout.
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Could there possible be a way to make it so when you only hover over the images or the video link that it would animate? Having a whole page of animated images make my eyes angry :-P
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Userscripts.org is a bit broken right now and won't let me update the script. Replace
var thumbs_xpath = "//img[contains(@src, '2.jpg')]";with
var thumbs_xpath = "//img[starts-with(@class, 'vimg')]";to make the animation work for "Related videos" that were not visible (scrolled to) on page load.
Doesn't work with "More from this user" or "Playlists" yet.