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I’m going to be building a new web site using WordPress with the Responsive theme and the Flowplayer plug-in for videos. I want to know how Flowplayer responds to a screen size smaller than the resolution of a video. In particular does it do anything to reduce the amount of data it sends so as to lower the bandwidth needed? My concern is that the older mobile devices might handle only H.264 Baseline profile and level 3.0 while the Flowplayer plug-in tries to feed them my H.264 video made with a higher profile or level even if Flowplayer can reduce the resolution. Obviously, I can generate different compressions for the different devices I want to target; I was just wondering if the Flowplayer plug-in could relieve me of some of the work.
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Hello Kirby,
thank you for the suggestion!
We actually allow you to enter a separate video for mobile (first enable it in Settings -> FV WordPress Flowplayer -> Post Interface Options). This video is then served to any device with screen smaller than 320x480px (width x height – works with retina display of iPhone too).
This is a work in progress, we want to fine tune this condition. Using just the user agent might not be the best method as it probably won’t cover the Android tablets with big screens reliably. But it sounds like it will cover your needs.
This way you can put in a video with H.264 Baseline profile and lower bitrate. We need to add some recommendations to our documentation. We also want to serve this video if your are on a very slow connection.
Thanks,
Martin
