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How to Automatically Select the Highest Quality YouTube Thumbnail with 'react-lite-youtube-embed'

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I'm using the react-lite-youtube-embed library to embed YouTube videos on my site. However, I'm running into an issue with the resolution of the video thumbnails. I want to ensure that the highest quality thumbnail available is used as the poster image.

Here's the relevant part of my code:

<LiteYouTubeEmbed  id={videoId}  poster={resolution}/>

To address this, I've come up with the following workaround:

// CSS importimport 'react-lite-youtube-embed/dist/LiteYouTubeEmbed.css';// React importsimport { useState } from "react";import Image from "next/image";const Video = ({ videoId }) => {    const [resolution, setResolution] = useState("maxresdefault");    const handleError = () => {        // Fallback to a lower resolution thumbnail        setResolution("hqdefault");    };    return (<div><Image                src={`https://img.youtube.com/vi/${videoId}/maxresdefault.jpg`}                height={0}                width={0}                onError={handleError}            /><LiteYouTubeEmbed                id={videoId}                poster={resolution}            /></div>    );};export default Video;

This approach initially attempts to load the maxresdefault thumbnail and falls back to the hqdefault thumbnail if the higher resolution image is unavailable.

Question

Is there a more efficient or reliable way to achieve this? Ideally, I want to avoid manual fallbacks and have the component automatically select the highest quality available thumbnail (without fetching the data).

What did I try?

I tried preloading the highest resolution thumbnail (maxresdefault) using an component from next/image. If the high-resolution thumbnail fails to load, I use the onError handler to switch to a lower resolution (hqdefault).

What was I expecting?

I was hoping for a more seamless way to automatically select the highest quality available thumbnail without relying on manual fallbacks or extra components. Ideally, I want the react-lite-youtube-embed component to handle this internally (without fetching the data).


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