Hi,

I have uploaded a video at high res (720p) which looks fine when played within the gallery at that uploaded size (still a little pixelated, but acceptable for now).
See here:
http://lookingglassphotography.smugm...298_QLGWc-A-LB


However, I have also embedded it into one of my Sub-Gallery pages and when I play it at full screen, it expands the video size even more to take up the whole screen.
See here (click icon on bottom right to play at full screen):
http://www.lookingglassphotography.com.au/Travel


I understand that this is the concept of "full screen", however, is it possible to make it play on the full screen mode, but constrained to the size of the highest resolution that it is uploaded at? In effect, the video will be playing but will be surrounded by black margins on all sides.

The reason I am asking is that after preparing, compressing, converting, and uploading a high res video of 180MB or so, I want it to be seen at its best. Expanding it when viewed on full screen makes it look very pixelated. I would much rather not have it play at full screen if it looked this bad. (I have asked in another thread if it was possible to disable full screen mode, but it appears that it isn't at this point.)

So any possibility of constraining the video size when played on full screen?

Thanks.

Shrekie, Not at this time. Why not put the video alone on an HTML only page so that you can control the size and having nothing else on the page.

Then create a link to that page in place of the embed on the category page. You could even use a screen capture of the video as a link to the actual video.

Just thinking of a possible workaround for you.

Originally Posted by docwalker Shrekie, Not at this time. Why not put the video alone on an HTML only page so that you can control the size and having nothing else on the page. Then create a link to that page in place of the embed on the category page. You could even use a screen capture of the video as a link to the actual video. Just thinking of a possible workaround for you.

Thanks docwalker. I'll have a think more on this. I like how the video is embedded and playable on the page so that it minimises clicks on the user's part. I might just wait until hopefully the time comes when playing full screen plays it at the highest res without upsizing.

Originally Posted by shrekie I understand that this is the concept of "full screen", however, is it possible to make it play on the full screen mode, but constrained to the size of the highest resolution that it is uploaded at? In effect, the video will be playing but will be surrounded by black margins on all sides.

This is the way the Vimeo player works. You can toggle between scaling on/off for expand the video to full screen size or play video at full resolution with black margins on all side to fill the screen.

On my own site I can use my own my own player which I have more control over (disallowing full screen playback for example)

shrekie, in your case you are using the SmugMug framework to host your site & the SmugMug player which always allows full screen as far as I know. I think that you could switch to embedding your own player provided you can host it somewhere & just link to it in the embed code for the video. Alternatively just embed the a decent size of video & then the viewer will not be so tempted to view it at full screen. The embedded video on your site is pretty tiny why not choose the 640x360 one?