Making yor plugin work with all browsers that use flexible width themes.

  • Resolved [email protected]

    (@dmitristoochnet)


    11 years, 9 months ago

    Kyle, I sincerely apologize that I caused you to waste time and made you angry. That was not the intention nor was it expected. So lets just solve this together, ok? I think that you have a wonderful plugin that has a ton of functionality.

    There is a serous issue with displaying flexible width video tags in a fluid theme. From my experience with other, less feature packed plugins, many browsers require the following key attributes in the <video> tag.

    <video width=”#px” height=”auto” poster=”poster url”>

    If you do not include the above tags and rely only on CSS to scale your video, you will have problems displaying the video on all platforms because most browsers are too dumb to figure out the embedded video size (except chrome) so they dont know the aspect ratio and make the videos 0 size.

    you see, the poster image and the size attributes is what lets browsers scale the video to flexible width. with the attributes I specified, the video tag works essentially like an <img> tag for scaling purposes. I would love to not have to branch your plugin and block your updates, and to ensure that your plugin works as expected for everyone else. it should be the #1 plugin for video IMO. you executed it brilliantly.

    thank you again for an excellent plugin and I hope that we can nail down this issue and make it work for everyone 100% of the time.

    sincerely, dimitri.

    I will work on my end to resolve this issue and will share my findings, although Im sure it wont be as optimal as your solution, because I will be hacking code i didn’t write.

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/

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  • Plugin Author Kyle Gilman

    (@kylegilman)

    If orientation detection is the only reason you want that css3-mediaqueries.js library, then you probably don’t need it. As far as I can tell it only enables media queries in IE and ancient versions of Safari and Firefox, none of which you are likely to encounter on a mobile device. My plugin checks for changes in orientation (using JS, not media queries) and should resize the video player to compensate.

    Try encoding a video at baseline profile and see if it helps your rewinding problem. If it’s H.264, my plugin doesn’t use FFMPEG to replace the original file, it just generates other options, so you’ll want to start with something that you know works well. With FFMPEG you should be able to use the flag -profile baseline.

    Plugin Author Kyle Gilman

    (@kylegilman)

    Wow! Thanks for the donation. Nobody ever gives money. I think it’s more than I’ve received in the past two years for this thing.

    Thread Starter [email protected]

    (@dmitristoochnet)

    ?? I know good code when I see it. I appreciate your time and support.

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