Re: WMP 11 does not shrink video to fit web embedded player size

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:47:00 -0800, dkfm
<dkfm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have found that when you embed a media player on to a webpage, the video
plays back at the size of the video file and is not adapted to fit the
specified embedded player size (eg if your video size is 640 x 480 pixels and
your player size is 320 x 240 pixels).This means the video is zoomed to the
top left corner of the original video and you cannot see your video controls.

Is there any html code that can solve this problem??


Did you put between the object tags :
<param name="stretchtofit" value="true" />

Also see "cwdjrxyz" post next, for details on his testing in Mozilla /
Camino based browser (no details yet on Webkit browsers because OSX
doesn't run WMP11 <g>)

I tried adding <param name="stretchtofit" value="true" /> and <param
name="stretchtofit" value="1" /> to the WMP object, and adding either
of these makes absolutely no difference on the latest versions of
Opera, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, or SeaMonkey for my "stretched"
example. Also, after reading many posts on Mozilla family discussion
groups, the problem seems to be present for WMP11 despite the type of
object code used including the old ActiveX object with embed path
contained inside it for browsers that do not use ActiveX. Of course all
embed tags are html errors and have never been a part of official W3C
html, but they often work for embedding a video in a non-IE browser. Of
course the W3C validator finds several errors when you use the embed
tag, which it rightly should do.

.

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