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

To remove the black borders from the Youtube thumbnail we need not have to write a seperate code or CSS. Simply use the ytimg.com site, that stands for YouTube image, which fetches the images from YouTube, like thumbnails and icons as required which come from that domain.

Example shown below -

Original Image [With borders]

http://img.youtube.com/vi/JQ7a_8psCn0/hqdefault.jpg

With No borders/Strips

1. http://img.youtube.com/vi/JQ7a_8psCn0/mqdefault.jpg

OR

2. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JQ7a_8psCn0/mqdefault.jpg