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I have started using CE Image and it’s a wonderful plugin.  I can get it to work fine and have used it to place watermarks.  However now I have to insert it into a place that is already referencing a channel variable and I can’t get it to all parse correctly (I’m a php neophyte), just get a broken link.
This happens to be inside an html5 video tag.  I should add that using the ce image works fine in another place, and the video works fine without the ce image manipulation inserted.
This is simply to get a play icon onto the poster image.  I tried it with all double quotes, double on the outside, single on the inside, and now this.  Nada.  Any help with this would be appreciated.

<video width="640" height="360" preload="auto" poster='{exp:ce_img:pair src="/images/uploads/site/playbutton75.png" parse="inward" width="75" height="75" crop="no"}
   {exp:ce_img:single src="{image}" watermark="{made}|0,0|80|center,bottom|0,-50"}
   {/exp:ce_img:pair}'>

     <source src="{video_mp4}" type="video/mp4" >
    <source src="{video_ogv}" type="video/ogg" >
    <source src="{video_webm}" type="video/webm" >

    <object width="640" height="360" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="/js/flashmediaelement.swf">   
     
       
    <a href="{image}ZB8Qh4LDuKtz63xQbGOpPPpx0MzU2wU0typography_img_src_end width=640 height=360 alt=Flash does not seem to be working on your system.      title=No video playback capabilities, please use a modern browser such as Chrome or Safari ">{image}ZB8Qh4LDuKtz63xQbGOpPPpx0MzU2wU0typography_img_src_end width=640 height=360 alt=Flash does not seem to be working on your system.      title=No video playback capabilities, please use a modern browser such as Chrome or Safari </a>
   </object>  
</video>

How about something like this:

{exp:ce_img:single src="{image}" watermark="{exp:ce_img:single src='/images/uploads/site/playbutton75.png' width="75" height="75" crop="no" url_only='yes'}|0,0|80|center,bottom|0,-50" parse='inward'}

Just ran a quick test and it seems to work for me.

Notice the url_only=‘yes’ in the inner tag, and parse=“inward” in the outer.

Thanks aelvan,
I am still trying to make it work right but I think it’s more of an issue with how the variables work.  If I go with your solution directly I get my large image blown up to fit inside 75px.  I just have to take a few minutes to get my head around it I guess.

By the way, how does the url_only tag help?  I read the desc but don’t quite grok it.

The url_only on the ce image tag makes it return only the url to the manipulated image, instead of the actual <img> tag. Which is what the watermark parameter needs.

Do you have the images (base image, playbutton, and the manipulated image) available somewhere, so I can see what happends? Didn’t quite understand the stuff about “blown up to fit inside 75px”. Is the {image} image, smaller than 75px?