Wordpress & JWPlayer plugin - adding video thumbnail to loop - wordpress

I have a Wordpress site with the JWPlayer plugin installed.
I embed a video into a Post and then have an archive page for that post type.
Is there a way I can display the video thumbnail on the archive page? Each Post will only ever have one video embedded in it.
I've seen forum articles mentioning *wp_get_attachment_metadata* and *jwplayermodule_thumbnail* etc but my knowledge of what's possible with these is still limited.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

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To check the page, Add it to your main menu for example then save it.
The url would be like http://quantumbuddy.com/videos.
so basically the videos is the name of the page.
I checked your site and it only contain one link in the menu. Add a page and add it to your menu bar and it would display next to the Blog link.
The website you are referring to is using Genesis Theme. You can find it here
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http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-gallery-plugin/screenshots/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
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