Aspect ratio problem (16:9 vs. 4:3) with the Flash fallback

[nylnook]

Hi, and thanks for your work !

We start using MediaElement.js on a Wordpress podcast website with success (http://podcast.grenet.fr/), and I only encounter a small problem with
aspect ratio (16:9 vs. 4:3) if the Flash fallback is used, and cannot solve it on my side.
See for example this video (you may have to wait to see it) with Firefox :
http://podcast.grenet.fr/non-classe/ceremonie-de-signature-de-la-convention-enepsvinci/
a video with a 16:9 aspect ratio is stretched to 4:3.
I can't assure consistency because my videos come from multiples sources, so I am looking for a way to obtain black borders instead of stretching...
but I can't figure out how !

Thanks,
yagraph

[johndyer]

Yagraph,
I just added some code to all the player to do two things (1) it won't stretch your video, but will instead have black bars. (2) it can also dynamically resize the Flash window to the native size of the video. which would you prefer?

[nylnook]

Thanks a lot johndyer, impressive reactivity !

I suppose (1) is the way to go, to assure consistency, and avoid surprising height or width for some videos. Black bars are commons on many screens these days, so I don't think it's a problem.

Do you plan to update your Wordpress plug-in with this fix ?

Cheers,
yagraph

[nylnook]

Hi, I've token your updated media player from source to deploy it quicker, and it work already very well. Thanks, it's solved !

[johndyer]

This is now updated and it should show up in Wordpress shortly.