• Fabian S. 4 months ago
    When watching a hd video in normal mode (in the normal player) the Flash-Quality (rightclick-on-flashobject>quality) is set to high, but weh I change to fullscreen mode it is often automatically set to low quality. Then I have to rightklick, select quality and set this to high and everything is ok. This effect is onely on vimeo!
    Is this normal? Do you want this to be so? Or is it a Bug?

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  • Casey Pugh 4 months ago
    This is something we do on purpose. The reason why we do this is so that videos play better at fullscreen... namely HD videos.

    We detect the user's current frame rate within Flash and if it drops below anything ridiculous (I think something around 10FPS) we switch the quality to LOW which boosts the framerate back up to 25-30FPS. Therefore the quality will only jump to low quality if your computer is running slow. We realize that all the elements in the player look pretty bad and the video is slightly degraded, but it's worth the improvement if you are trying to watch something in HD at fullscreen.

    We're also about to release a new version of our player that should fix and improve some of these problems.
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  • Fabian S. 4 months ago
    ah ok.
    But I have a fast PC, and when I change it to high quality it works perfectly, so why don't you let the user choose if he wants high or low quality?
    OK, maby this will be possible in the new player...
  • Paul Gremley 4 months ago
    If I do that, it changes right back to "Low," which makes a very small difference anyway on my size screen :-)
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