original_thumbnails = thumbnails.copy()
# The best resolution thumbnails sometimes does not appear in the webpage
- # See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29049, https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/340
+ # See: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/340
# List of possible thumbnails - Ref: <https://stackoverflow.com/a/20542029>
thumbnail_names = [
- 'maxresdefault', 'hq720', 'sddefault', 'sd1', 'sd2', 'sd3',
- 'hqdefault', 'hq1', 'hq2', 'hq3', '0',
- 'mqdefault', 'mq1', 'mq2', 'mq3',
- 'default', '1', '2', '3'
+ # While the *1,*2,*3 thumbnails are just below their correspnding "*default" variants
+ # in resolution, these are not the custom thumbnail. So de-prioritize them
+ 'maxresdefault', 'hq720', 'sddefault', 'hqdefault', '0', 'mqdefault', 'default',
+ 'sd1', 'sd2', 'sd3', 'hq1', 'hq2', 'hq3', 'mq1', 'mq2', 'mq3', '1', '2', '3'
]
n_thumbnail_names = len(thumbnail_names)
thumbnails.extend({