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Play Doesn’t Obey Sitewide Defaults

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  • Sozo 11 years, 8 months ago

    Under the site wide video options there is a section for the default video size and I have mine set to 640×360. It’s my understanding that this setting would override or be the default setting for all videos posted…but that isn’t the case.

    Unless you manually change the size of the video in the pop up dialog box, the video will do one of two things depending on your settings. 1.) It will be the full width of the content area. 2.) Or it will be the full video’s size.

    So if you’re content area is 680px wide, the video will be 680px wide. If you click the option to “always used fixed size” the video will be whatever size the video came or the full video size. So for example if you’ve upload a 720p video, that’s the size the video will be on the size, unless you manually change the size in the pop up dialog box.

    None of those options obey the default settings. Is this a bug or am I completely misunderstanding what default video size means?

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  • Martin 12 years ago

    Hello Bryan,

    please use the “Send to Foliovision” function in video checker to send us the post where you are seeing this.

    The default video dimensions will be used for any video which doesn’t have the width and height specified in the shortcode.

    Settings -> FV WordPress Flowplayer -> “Always use fixed size player” sets the player dimensions using width and height, rather than max-width and max-height, so that helps when troubleshooting issues with responsive templates.

    Now the tricky part – we put in some failsafe JavaScript code which makes sure that the player is visible even in weird responsive templates. Some of them are simply set to fit the content, while the video player is set to fit the wrapper – resulting in very small player size. So that’s the only part which could be failing for you.

    However this part is only enabled if you don’t opt for “Always use fixed size player”, so I’m not really sure how can that option not work for you.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Sozo 12 years ago

    I’m not sure I understand you correctly.

    You the default video dimensions will be used for any video which doesn’t have the width and height specified in the shortcode.

    Is that the default video size that I’ve set in the settings? What about when the video uploads in own video size? Why does our default settings over ride the video size settings on upload?

    The only way you get settings in the short code are to either manually enter them yourself or allow the video sizes to stay.

    I don’t see the reason for the default player size in the settings if you’re we have to then edit the settings every time we upload a video.

    I should be able to set me default player size and then every video I upload should retain those settings. As it stands every upload has to be manually adjusted to the proper size, all but eliminated the default settings.

    Martin 12 years ago

    Hello Bryan,

    I think I see your point now – you set the default video dimensions in plugin settings, but then each time you insert a new video, our insert video dialog figures out its dimensions and uses that. So you have to remove these dimensions for each video.

    We will discuss this in our team as I’m not sure if these default settings should apply to all videos or under what conditions.

    In the meantime, you can use this PHP code to set the default video dimensions to all the videos, just put it into functions.php of your template:

    add_filter( 'fv_flowplayer_attributes', 'tweak_fv_flowplayer_attributes', 10, 2 );
    function tweak_fv_flowplayer_attributes( $attrs ) {
    $attrs['style'] = 'max-width: 600px; max-width: 400px';
    return $attrs;
    }

    Thanks,
    Martin

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