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

ok, so I killed off media-query and going to just embed it into my theme manually, i really want to have orientation detection for my devices.

I guess ill have to tune it so that it doesn’t interfere with your player.

my device is a galaxy note 2. this little bastard can stream 1080p hd over 4g ??

but yes, as soon as my host gets me on their ffmpeg enabled server, the goal is to use your conversion tools ??

I use premiere to output to H264, it works great for me. I also have a shell integration of ffmpeg into windows interface with custom right click menus. I do alot of production conversions with that as well, maybe i can even figure out how to do a conversion locally and then automatically upload to my server.

you are a genius. it works.

one question about your player, I notice that it has problems rewinding a video? alot of the videos i post are really short and need to be rewound alot of times, there is a weird pause and often i have to click play a coupel of times to recycle the videos? are there some flags i could set or caching to enable?

Brilliant. I will shoot over to my office and try this asap. This may explain the rewind isses too. I have been thinking of stripping the theme im using as a base anyway.

Yeah that makes sense I know you had alot of functionality in there. Also the problem I was having wasn’t just ie. It was also Android browser too! I must have support for mobile because many directors use tablets and smartphones. Im not quite satisfied with the way my hack is working at the moment anyway. There are weird problems with rewinding and looping. Like a delay or stutter. So I will keep researching this as well. I will cintinue sharing my progress with you. It’s a tricky problem. P.s. I dont think you need to make custon aspect ratios with php. I have a hunch that if you specify a width and height, the auto css rescale will maintain that ratio. I will test further.

Here is the modified php file:
https://www.stooch.tv/outgoing/MISC/video-embed-thumbnail-generator.php.zip

the gist of the fix is: I look to see if there is a poster image added, if there is no poster image, i refer to your “nothumbnail.jpg” as fallback, so that there is ALWAYS a poster included with the video tag. This ensures that firefox and ie load the proper size on startup. Im not 100% sure that you have to set the height to “auto”, maybe setting the actual size is better? on load, the CSS markup will override the poster video size anyway. I also stripped all of your CSS formatting for now, currently I have a site wide theme CSS that has the following video tag:

object, embed, video{width: 100%!important; max-width:100%; height:auto;}

please search for “stooch” and you will find my markup.
i did not erase any of your original code, just commented it out.

I trust that this will be self explanatory.
thanks!

one more thing, i am using the tinymce fallback flash player that comes with word press core install.

Dear kyle, I am happy to say that i have a proof of concept working.

the problem ended up to be your SWF fallback player.

i didnt integrate this fully yet, as you have lots of aniciliary code surrounding your embed, but this should give you a good start:

https://www.hihandsome.tv/the-well/0165/

login test:test

thanks!

And dont sweat the timeliness of updates, its not mission critical. I will of course work on this problem as well and share. I am waiting on my host to install ffmpeg so the pages we are looking at are locked down anyway.

thanks again for your awesome tool. I have some ideas on extending its functionality to suit my needs and will be happy to share them with you. Im making a production management tool for visual effects and design projects, so its important to have powerful preview and versioning features ??

ok, understood about the css changes, sorry. I didnt expect CSS to cause any issues, I was talking about the plugin source files, but i guess CSS is also part of the source.. anyway.

All i can tell you right now is that the implementation and setup of the video tag is no small matter. I fully understand this because I myself have spent about 2 weeks total of R&D. I am not even 100% sure how it works to be honest, I can only offer conjecture. What i do know is that I have tested this implementation across many platforms and versions and so far, all major browsers work fine.

Maybe my particular install of IE has something fishy about it. Maybe its also my phone acting up, but i work from office and home and both computers exhibit the same issue with your plugin. I know that IE has alot of security features built in that prevent the execution of code across domains or code that may be used to exploit the browser. Bottom line, IE has tightened security up after all the criticism to the point of being the most finicky browser to tune for. The solution taht I offer is tried and tested. Feel free to look at my front page with other devices and let me know if you see any problems, maybe i myself have missed things that you specifically have adressed too.

Also, im not sure that you even have to specify the height as “auto”.
as long as you specify a poster image and set an initial dimension, you can then use CSS styles with flexible width markup.

p.s. The ideal solution here is to always specify a dummy poster placeholder if the user does not specify a poster image. This will make your video player bullet proof.

also one more thing, the video on my front page also relies on a background image to work. sorry i forgot about that little part.

if i were to not include an image, then the scaling issue will happen.

im thinking that the image is what forces the video size, because the width tag is being applied to the image and the image stretches the parent div to the right scale, then the video tag fills the div.

Like i stated previously, i would be more than happy to give you the entire video-js plugin im using.

err i meant to say <video tag> not video php.

Dear kevin. This is my original post:

hi, I have already resolved this issue once with a different plugin, but basically you have to make sure that the final <video embed> tag has the following:
<video width=”1280″ height=”auto”>

what wrong path are you talking about? why are you even looking at css? I told you EXACTLY what to do. why are you second guessing me and getting angry?? make the video tag look like my front page and problem is solved. I normally dont even ask for help kevin, normally I fix the problem myself and then block updates from you so that you dont override my changes. I liked your plugin so much and your fast response to the other problem i found for you, that i decided to share the solution so that you end up with a better plugin. I told you EXACTLY what to do. Yes I admit i went in and worked a little bit on the plugin late at night, sorry it was really late and i didnt have time or energy to post my changes. I shouldnt have to anyway, because my original post here told you EXACTLY what to do. I just have to dig through your code and find out exactly where you generate the video tag, i figured that you can do this faster than me.

but even if you dont help me, eventually ill figure this out and fix it, just like i did with my previous plugin, and then lock it down and move on with my life…

I went ahead and uploaded a screenshot of the problem:

https://www.hihandsome.tv/the-well/0166/

this is after clearing ALL cache. firefox works a little better, immediatelly on load it looks like the screenshot above, then it quickly snaps into the correct size. im thinking that maybe my overall theme css is scaling it down?

also my smartphone with chrome is also showing the same problem.

again, the code i provided you with, works perfectly 100% of the time. You stated that your code is fine, but i KNOW its not. there must be width specified in pixels in the video php, otherwise IE doesnt know the aspect ratio…