Merge pull request #3074 from kedarisetti/bugfix/media_from_file_params

Bugfix/parameters in the from file method to be passed along in the media class

Author: jasongrout

ipywidgets/widgets/widget_media.py

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def from_url(cls, url, **kwargs):
             # If str, it needs to be encoded to bytes
             url = url.encode('utf-8')
 
-        return cls(value=url, format='url')
+        return cls(value=url, format='url', **kwargs)
 
     def set_value_from_file(self, filename):
         """