Removing black borders 4:3 on youtube thumbnails

Question

E.g. I have a link

http://img.youtube.com/vi/aOPGepdbfpo/0.jpg

for a youtube video thumbnail:

Answer 1

Use it as a background image, center it and change height.

http://dabblet.com/gist/4012604

.youtubePreview {
    background:url('http://img.youtube.com/vi/aOPGepdbfpo/0.jpg') center no-repeat;
    height:204px;
    width:480px;
}