jQuery Based Youtube Video Lazy Loader With HD Thumbnail

#Embedding HD YouTube Videos with High Quality Thumbnails This jQuery plugin ensures that you will get the highest quality thumbnails for your HD YouTube videos, regardless of the embedding sizes or the original thumbnail quality settings of the YouTube videos.

##Examples Please visit this webpage for examples of using this plugin.

##Usage Include the CSS stylesheet within the head tag.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/YouTube.HD.Thumbnail.css">  

Then include the JavaScript file before the closing body tag.

<script src="js/jQuery.YouTube.HD.Thumbnail.js"></script> 

Copy the code for embedding from your YouTube video and add a class name like yt-hd-thumbnail.

<iframe class="yt-hd-thumbnail" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5aOSxep4ni0?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> 

Activate the plugin by adding the following code to your JavaScript file.

$('iframe.yt-hd-thumbnail').youTubeHDThumbnail({ 	darkenThumbnail: false }); 

##Options The following options are provided in this jQuery plugin.

• darkenThumbnail: true / false Specifies whether to darken the thumbnail

##About MIT License

Created by Simon Li in Sep 2016