Forum user: Evan Thies Video Editor and Web Video Manager at Aperio Studios

Lots of good information here from gmccomb but I think all you need to do for your issue is add scaling: fit to your clip properties, see below:

flowplayer("player", "flowplayer-3.2.2.swf", {  
  clip: {  
    scaling: 'fit' 
  },

This will always keep the video at 16:9, so if you go fullscreen on a 4:3 monitor or on a 16:10 monitor the video will automatically be letterboxed to keep the aspect ratio.

Hope this helps

This looks to be coming in the next update, more information can be found here - http://flowplayer.org/forum/6/34459

Hey Tero,

I'll see if I can get a script together to replace the video with an image when someone switches to another tab.

I do in fact have a commercial license of Flowplayer and ultimately the goal will be to switch these videos to Flowplayer. However I am building this for a client and therefore will be using the OBJECT embedding method to get the videos on their site. So I figured I'd test with YouTube and Vimeo videos first just to get the tabs working.

But I'll see if I can find/work on a script to swap the videos for images when a tab changes. Thanks for the suggestion.

Evan

Hey everyone,

Hopefully someone here will be able to help me with a problem I am having with jQuery Tools. This is a great tool set and I am having lots of fun playing around with everything. However the problem I am having seems to only effect Internet Explorer.

Here's the scenario: I'm setting up a portfolio page with tabs to view different videos. So there would be 3 - 5 tabs where people can click to see a different video. I'm embedding videos from YouTube and Vimeo. The problem in IE seems to be if the video is in the middle of playing and you click on a different tab the audio from that video continues playing.

Obviously this is a problem because if someone were to play another video, multiple audio tracks would be playing at once. This seems to only be a problem in IE, I've tested it in IE6, 7, & 8 and experienced this issue in all of them. But it works properly in FF, Safari, Opera, Camino, etc. It almost seems to me like IE isn't unloading the content from the previous tab properly.

I also seem to have the same problem when I have a YouTube video embedded in an overlay.

If anyone has any ideas on how to solve this issue I would really appreciate it. I had seen some similar topics to this via search but nothing I tried solved the problem.

Thanks,

Evan Thies

Thanks for answering so quickly Tony. These examples will really help us out and I'm sure many members of the community will appreciate it.

Hey,

So recently I've been trying to get SimpleCDN and Flowplayer with bandwidth checking to work. I tried a few ways on my own but I haven't been able to get it to work yet.

I contacted SimpleCDN in regards to this and they did confirm that bandwidth checking should work. I received this reply on August 16th: "We have the bwcheck application loaded on the CDN in Wowza, and also you can just upload a file to use with the HTTP bandwidth checking for Flowplayer."

Although I haven't received a reply yet on how to actually implement the bandwidth checking. I'm using the RTMP example listed on the Flowplayer website to work from, but still haven't had any luck... Has anyone had any experience with this or got it to work?

When SimpleCDN replies I'll post here with whatever information or examples they give.

- Evan

Hi Spud,

You do not have to use an FLV file to use Flowplayer. In fact I have never used an FLV file to date for my own use, I use H.264/AAC encoded MP4 files. The only down side of using an MP4 file is that Flash only started supporting the H.264 standard in version 9.0.115, which at last check has about 90% market saturation. So if that 10% of users with older versions of Flash is important to your client, you may want to use an FLV file or maybe use an FLV for fallback.

But in many ways the H.264 codec is superior to the old Flash On2 VP6 codec, allowing you to create a high quality video with a small file size. I'm not sure what resolution or quality you are aiming for but do some experimenting until you get something you like. You can also do HD video if you want, keep in mind you will need to have a higher video bitrate and users will have to have a decent connection speed as well.

Hope this helps,

Evan

You're right, I was only thinking of the HTTP based checking. The RTMP checking does communicate with the streaming server to calculate the bandwidth. But that still doesn't explain why I always receive a low bandwidth version when my connection speed can easily handle a much higher bandwidth stream.

I was curious about this as well. Although I haven't tried the bandwidth plugin on my site yet, every time I try it on the Flowplayer site I only get the 40 or 150 bitrate files even though my internet speed is 15 Mbps. Taking that into account it should select the highest bitrate file every time I play it.

I thought perhaps the file that is has to download, in this case expressinstall.swf, isn't big enough to give an accurate bandwidth test. Although putting a larger file could cause a longer load up time, would this give more accurate results?

Also since this will allow me to deliver HD without excluding low bandwidth users, how do most of you define HD for the web? Although HD is usually listed as 720p or 1080p, that doesn't matter if the bitrate is too low. What bitrate would constitute HD in your mind?

Thanks,

Evan

I'm having this same issue: The right click menu works fine and the menu item displays as normal. The problem is when you actually click it, it doesn't go anywhere. I've tried it in various browsers and the href still doesn't work.