diff --git a/Zotlabs/Module/Linkinfo.php b/Zotlabs/Module/Linkinfo.php
index 78c34583e..3392e4114 100644
--- a/Zotlabs/Module/Linkinfo.php
+++ b/Zotlabs/Module/Linkinfo.php
@@ -120,9 +120,9 @@ class Linkinfo extends \Zotlabs\Web\Controller {
 	
 		$siteinfo = self::parseurl_getsiteinfo($url);
 	
-		// If this is a Red site, use zrl rather than url so they get zids sent to them by default
+		// If the site uses this platform, use zrl rather than url so they get zids sent to them by default
 	
-		if( x($siteinfo,'generator') && (strpos($siteinfo['generator'], \Zotlabs\Lib\System::get_platform_name() . ' ') === 0))
+		if(is_matrix_url($url))
 			$template = str_replace('url','zrl',$template);
 	
 		if($siteinfo["title"] == "") {
diff --git a/images/video_poster.jpg b/images/video_poster.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7e4220861
Binary files /dev/null and b/images/video_poster.jpg differ
diff --git a/include/bbcode.php b/include/bbcode.php
index 2b8274c0f..0c85a0a4e 100644
--- a/include/bbcode.php
+++ b/include/bbcode.php
@@ -108,7 +108,11 @@ function tryzrlvideo($match) {
 	if($zrl)
 		$link = zid($link);
 
-	return '<video controls="controls" preload="none" src="' . str_replace(' ','%20',$link) . '" style="width:100%; max-width:' . App::$videowidth . 'px"><a href="' . str_replace(' ','%20',$link) . '">' . $link . '</a></video>';
+	$static_link = get_config('system','video_default_poster','images/video_poster.jpg');
+	if($static_link)
+		$poster = 'poster="' . escape_tags($static_link) . '" ' ;
+
+	return '<video ' . $poster . ' controls="controls" preload="none" src="' . str_replace(' ','%20',$link) . '" style="width:100%; max-width:' . App::$videowidth . 'px"><a href="' . str_replace(' ','%20',$link) . '">' . $link . '</a></video>';
 }
 
 // [noparse][i]italic[/i][/noparse] turns into