Size of FLV' are not resizable in any way

Size of FLV' are not resizable in any way

by Jens Gammelgaard -
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Hi,

We experience that videos in FLV that origanally are stored in the size of 320x240 are displayed in 600x400 pixels which compromise the video output quality. (Moodle 1.93+)

The same happens if the resource is opened as a New Window and the media plugins has been enabled.

Thank you for your advice smile

Cheers,

Jens
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Re: Size of FLV' are not resizable in any way

by Ralf Hilgenstock -
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Hi Jens,

I think the default size for multimediaplugins are defined in the moodle/filter/mediaplugin/filter.php for the different formats.

Ralf
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Re: Size of FLV' are not resizable in any way

by Jens Gammelgaard -
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Hi Ralf,

Thanks for the tip - but it seems to be somewhere else.

I did try to alter it arround line 161 - but it did not change anything.

Happy New Year!

Jens.
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Re: Size of FLV' are not resizable in any way

by Wouter Baars -
same problem here.

Anyone a suggestion?

thanks,

Wouter
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Re: Size of FLV' are not resizable in any way

by Jerod Quinn -
There is a little bit of code you can insert to make the player whatever size you want. I am using widescreen videos, and they looked downright awful in the default size. This solution goes right into the html of the page. There might be a solution through editing the php, but that is above my knowledge at this point. This is a video by video, html workaround.

All you need to do is link to the .flv and add this bit of code to the end of the link:

?d=desired width x desired height

So to get your video to be 320 by 240, you link would look like this:

<a href="the exact location of you file/folder/video.flv?d=320x240"></a>

I am currently using this in one of my courses and here is my exact code:
<a type="video" title="Intro Video" href="http://cdis2.missouri.edu/moodle/file.php/61/activities/IntroStats.flv?d=432x280"></a>

Now if I can just get it to show a first frame preview instead of that black screen, I will be pleased as punch.
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Re: Size of FLV' are not resizable in any way

by José Ángel Polo -

Hi Jerod:

Have you got to show the first frame in the flv videos preview, like <a href="...flv?d=...&..."></a> ?