Hello.
I'm building my first Roku channel app and I am hitting a block. Roku's certification requirements mandate thumbnails for trick play in all VOD over 15 minutes long. All my app's content is hosted in a Vimeo showcase which provides the content feed. However, I'm not finding any trick play thumbnail URLs in this feed. Each entry looks like this:
{
"id": "417698928",
"title": "Title",
"shortDescription": "Short description",
"thumbnail": "https:\/\/i.vimeocdn.com\/video\/thumbnailURL",
"releaseDate": "ISO timestamp",
"genres": [],
"tags": [],
"content": {
"dateAdded": "ISO timestamp",
"duration": 777,
"videos": [
{
"url": "https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/external\/videoURL",
"quality": "FHD",
"videoType": "HLS",
"bitrate": null
}
]
}
}
I'm surprised that this isn't something included in the Vimeo feed itself, given that it essentially makes Vimeo Showcase impossible to use as a plug-and-play content feed for any public Roku app with moderately long-form content. Is every public app with content over 15 minutes long that uses a Vimeo Showcase also using some third party service to inject trick play thumbnails into their feed? Or generating thumbnails manually for their content and uploading it to a CDN/S3 instance?
Just want to sanity check that I'm not missing something simple before I do a bunch work and pay for additional services/hosting.
