diff --git a/typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/ContentObject/FlowPlayerContentObject.php b/typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/ContentObject/FlowPlayerContentObject.php
index 29c99ac..b0b4bfe 100644
--- a/typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/ContentObject/FlowPlayerContentObject.php
+++ b/typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/ContentObject/FlowPlayerContentObject.php
@@ -414,6 +414,13 @@ class FlowPlayerContentObject extends \TYPO3\CMS\Frontend\ContentObject\Abstract
 			} else {
 				// Video tag with Flash fallback
 				$conf['params.']['playerFallbackOrder'] = array('html5', 'flash');
+
+                // add preview image, html5 poster attribute
+                $poster = preg_replace('/.[^.]*$/', '.jpg', $conf['sources'][1]);
+                if (file_exists(PATH_site . $poster)){
+                    $attributes .= ' poster=' . $poster . ' ';
+                }
+
 				$videoTagContent = $videoSources . $videoCaptions;
 				if (isset($conf['videoflashvars']['url'])) {
 					$videoTagContent .= '