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  • Robert L. Tuva 9 months ago
    I am embedding my video into Wordpress from Google Video. I can change style="width:425px; height:346px;" into "with:325px", and see the effect takes place. If I do this with vimeo video, nothing happens, my video doesn't resize, and it has black border of some 10px at top and bottom. Can I remedy this?
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  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 9 months ago
    I can resize vimeo video just fine. In fact, I have it resized to 512x288 which maintains the aspect ratio. Here's an example where I have resized both an HD and an SD video to better fit my blog:
    eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/11/07/autumn-flowers/

    Just make sure you calculate the ORIGINAL's flash file on the vimeo page width & height *with the right* aspect ratio instead of using random numbers and the black borders will be gone. Give me the URL of the vimeo video you want to resize and I will do the calculation for you.
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  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 9 months ago
    I just had a look at YOUR videos, and if these are the ones who you are looking into resizing, then you must change their resolution to: width:320 and height:240
    There are TWO places you need to change these numbers in the embedded code.

    Let me know if you still have trouble with it.
  • Robert L. Tuva 9 months ago
    Thank you for a lovely reply, but it does not help me. :( My video has an aspect ratio of 4:3, but if I change the dimensions in embedded code to 320x240 for example, still nothing changes: the video's viewing area is 425x350, and the actual video inside 425x319 (I took a measurement). Last dimension corresponds to 4:3. But 31 pixels of black area is added to top and bottom.

    You say there are TWO places I need to change these numbers in the code. I can find only one: the object tag begins with the type parameter after which width and height follow. Where can the other place be? The code is short, I should see it.

    P.S. I can see you can resize your videos. It could be a problem on my side in my Wordpress system though. But I can change Gvideo videos' viewing area in any way I want.
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  • Robert L. Tuva 9 months ago
    I am now happy to say that I successfully resized my vimeo video to borderless viewing pane. (Thank you Eugenia for making me think for the additional time.) A short guide for people with a similar problem follows.

    The code vimeo offers for a copy-paste has the object tag with parameters like type, width, data, and the param subtag. I changed this to html code that Google Video offers: the embed tag with parameters like style, src, flashvar. And this works in my Wordpress system. In a nutshell, I changed the object tag with the embed tag.
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