How to scale an embedded flash video and not crop it?

Ben Holland picture Ben Holland · Oct 31, 2010 · Viewed 16.6k times · Source

I have embedded a flash video on my website.

I am having the problem that it seems to rescale fine in Firefox on the Mac, but in Firefox in Windows it just crops the video.

Here it my HTML

<object width="650" height="500">
<param name="movie" value="How To Add A Location">
<embed src="http://www.fribblesoft.com/zs-content/How_To_Add_A_Location.swf" 
 width="650" 
 height="500" 
 allowfullscreen="true" 
 bgcolor="#000000" 
 scale="tofit" 
 type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
 pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
</object>

Answer

Ben Holland picture Ben Holland · Oct 31, 2010

I think this just might be a property of the Jing video. The following html seems to work for other shockwave files.

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" 
        codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" 
        width="100%" 
        height="100%">
<param name="movie" value="How_To_Add_A_Location.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="exactfit" />
<embed src="How_To_Add_A_Location.swf" quality="best" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%" height="100%" allowfullscreen="true" scale="exactfit" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>