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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>See: <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/flash_api_reference_as2.html#setPlaybackQuality">http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/flash_api_reference_as2.html#setPlaybackQuality</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It seems that leaving the parameter as it is, default, is the best thing to do: it allows the player to select the best quality video for the size of the player. In Xerte, this is probably always going to be low, because even when toggled full screen, the max height is 514 px. ‘Large’ would be the best quality it would be worth trying to load, and only then when toggled to full screen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adam Read<br><b>Sent:</b> 09 June 2011 12:35<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Youtube Dimensions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>Hi Julian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>Got it working. A couple of slight issues:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#244061'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#244061'>If text is set to align-left the video player floats off the edge of the page.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#244061'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#244061'>Attempting to scroll through the video using the time bar seems to jump erratically. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>Other than that it’s a great addition. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'>Regarding HD playeback. Here’s a video – have a look at the (slight) difference between standard 360 and HD 720 resolutions - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYO_VruAkaw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYO_VruAkaw</a> – picky I know but I do like the sharpness when viewing back in 720.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'>The new YT embed code doesn’t seem to play ball with the xerte page when it has additional variables appended to the URL:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'>E.g: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span style='color:#17365D'>Broken</span></b><span style='color:#17365D'>: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'><iframe width="1280" height="750" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JYO_VruAkaw</span><b><span style='color:red'>?hd=1</span></b><span style='color:#17365D'>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span style='color:#17365D'>Works</span></b><span style='color:#17365D'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'><iframe width="1280" height="750" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JYO_VruAkaw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br><b>Sent:</b> 09 June 2011 10:40<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Youtube Dimensions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>You mean like this? See attached. There is an optional property ‘videoSize’ which takes a value like this: 500,200.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Would you test it for me please? You might want to back those two files up in case there’s anything screwy in there, but it looks OK. I haven’t been through every option / combination…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Unsure about the HD thing. Are you sure there is an HD stream of the video you want to view? If the input is lo-fi, HD will be lo-fi too. Even if there is an HD stream, you might need a very expensive projector to actually see any difference, can you point me to an example where you can see the difference between HD and standard quality?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=808 height=634 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01CC26A5.BC9B5EA0"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adam Read<br><b>Sent:</b> 09 June 2011 09:45<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list (xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk)<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Youtube Dimensions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>Hi wizards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>I’m wondering how tricky it would be to create a copy of the youtube template (XOT) and modify it so a user could specify the dimensions of the player? I notice the standard flash video page template allows a user to enter their specified size (separated by a comma).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>I’ve had a look at the youtube page template, just to see if I could directly change the size of the video (to 480, 272) but wasn’t sure which values to set!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>On another note, is there a way to force it to play a HD stream? I’ve ticked the HD option in the YT embed section, which appends “HD=1” to the URL, but that doesn’t seem to effect the quality in Xerte.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>Cheers, Adam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><pre style='margin-left:72.0pt'>University College Plymouth St Mark & St John, Derriford Road, Plymouth, PL6 8BH <o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:72.0pt'> Phone: 01752 636700 Web: <a href="http://www.ucpmarjon.ac.uk">www.ucpmarjon.ac.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:72.0pt'> Principal: Professor Margaret Noble A Church of England College Founded in 1840<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:72.0pt'>University College Plymouth St Mark & St John is a registered charity the trustee <o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:72.0pt'> of which is a company limited by guarantee registered in England No. 986239 <o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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