Forum user: vicelist http://www.ViceList.com

"The scale modes and the dimensions are about all you can give to Flash"

Yeah, that's what I want to do in Full Screen mode. I want to specify the dimensions, since I have a database entry of the content size.

I think you guys are missing the point.

I just want to manipulate the size of Flow Player in full screen mode.

I said at the beginning that the default scaling options don't work, and that my videos are properly encoded.

For instance, if my user has a 4:3 monitor and I have 16:9 content, I want horizontal letterbox bars in FULL SCREEN.

For instance, if my user has a 16:9 monitor and I have 4:3 content, I want vertical letterbox bars in FULL SCREEN.

Again, I have all this information in my database and can pass vars.

Yes, we have 4:3 and 16:9 videos. Everything has been sized correctly on the encoding. That's not the issue. And we have that info stored in our database, so we can adjust player's vars.

I've either read or been told that Flowplayer's Full Screen sizing can be controlled. Is this not true?

Yes, none of the scaling options work universally. That's why we essentially have hardcoded the behavior on the default size. We're wanting to do the same thing now in the Full Screen mode, but also account for the users' monitor sizes as well.

We're streaming H.264 on FMS 3.5. The first issue we had is that none of the native scaling options within Flowplayer can handle both 4:3 and 16:9 content.

We addressed this by databasing all of our content and changing the player size based on this parameter.

However, when Flowplayer is used in Full Screen mode, it sizes to fit based on whatever the user's monitor is...regardless of aspect ratio.

We want to fix (hack) this behavior to impose both horizontal or vertical letterboxing in Full Screen mode based on the content and monitor size.

Any suggestions?

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http://flowplayer.org/forum/2/18445#post-18445

I saw another thread on here talking about this being a feature that should (will) be added to FlowPlayer (April 2009 comments).

I've seen the javascript behind someone's player that does what I'm talking about, and while quite doable for sure...it hardly seems to make sense to reinvent the wheel when this would seem to be a normal functionality that anyone would benefit from.

Is FlowPlayer going to add this as suggested in April? Are there competitive commercially available players that already have this feature?

I apologize if this is a jackass request. Can FlowPlayer be used/modified to have seekable screen captures (thumbnails) displayed beneath the video?

Has anyone done this?

If so, respond to support@vicelist.com

Thanks!