Cool Video Gallery problem

  • jowry

    (@jowry)


    15 years, 3 months ago

    When I click a video to play it back, and the player spawns, the video is cropped within a small box. Most of my videos are Flash 640 x 360, and it appears that the cool video gallery box is cropping at about 400 x 400. I’ve tried changing the settings in the Video Gallery Settings, but nothing seems to have an effect. The only thing I can do is right click when the video plays back to set to “uniform”, then the video fits the tiny window, but it’s not 640 x 360. I’m guessing there must be a .css file somewhere that over-rides these settings?

    When I double click the file in Gallery Details it pops right up on the screen in the correct size and aspect ratio.

    Also while I’m here, how do I get multiple video clips to show up on the Portfolio page? I’m new at this, and am just getting my head around this. Thanks.

    Jowry

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  • Praveen Rajan

    (@praveen-rajan)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Hi Jowry,

    The video player screen width and height is set from Video Player Settings menu and it works fine. The aspect ratio is set in the same page in Video Display option. The default is none.

    If you still can’t get it working in front end it may be some CSS conflict from your other styles. I could cross check it if you could give your website link.

    Inorder to show multiple videos use the gallery shortcode in your template. If you need multiple videos from different galleries to be shown then you must use shortcode for a single video repeatedly. See installation section for help.

    Thanks,
    Praveen

    lewis914

    (@lewis914)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Good morning: I installed the plugin and 4 videos, but when they display on my site the text of the descriptions doesn’t go under video. it goes allw ay across page and as a result videos are stacked. any way to fix this?

    Praveen Rajan

    (@praveen-rajan)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    That might be some CSS issues. Try editing the CSS for video display. If you could give me your website link I could take a look at it.

    Thanks,
    Praveen

    lewis914

    (@lewis914)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Praveen:
    thanks for looking at this. I am probably doing something wrong.
    In any event, here is the post:
    http://blogs.rep-am.com/hoopzone/2011/02/26/gallery-test/

    do you have a link to a page where the videos are posted correctly that I can view?
    thanks again
    lee

    Praveen Rajan

    (@praveen-rajan)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Hi Lee,

    In the plugin file cool-video-gallery/lib/core.php find the function videoCreateGallery and add the CSS width. For example replace

    $out .= '<div style="float:left;margin-right:10px;"><div class="video-gallery-thumbnail-box" style="padding:0px;" id="vide-file-'.$index.'">';

    with

    $out .= '<div style="float:left;margin-right:10px;width:120px;"><div class="video-gallery-thumbnail-box" style="padding:0px;" id="vide-file-'.$index.'">';

    Thanks,
    Praveen

    lewis914

    (@lewis914)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    I think I found that plugin file but this is what it says

    xEditing cool-video-gallery/lib/core.php (inactive)

    could that be the problem, that it is ‘inactive’?

    Praveen Rajan

    (@praveen-rajan)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    I’m not sure about the issue you are mentioning. You could edit the plugin file using the editor in admin panel. Or use FTP access to edit the plugin file and make the required changes.

    Thanks,
    Praveen

    lewis914

    (@lewis914)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Praveen:
    here’s a miracle, fro a non-code guy: I went through code, found a spot, fixed it as you said … AND IT WORKED! (miracle was me doing it right). looks great, I can’t thank you enough.
    lee

    Praveen Rajan

    (@praveen-rajan)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Job well done!! good to hear you could fix it 🙂

    Rate my plugin if you love it.. 🙂

    Thanks,
    Praveen

    Thread Starter jowry

    (@jowry)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Hi Praveen –

    I don’t know what happened here. Lee jumped in on my post and I still don’t have an answer! Here’s what’s going on at this point. The Video Player Settings do not work – the spinners are locked, and, while I can type in values, there is no change in the Gallery when I play the Flash file. The funny thing is, I can play any still format in the Gallery, and it immediately goes to the original file size – only Flash is being cropped. When I preview the file in the WordPress Gallery Details, the window pops up fine, and plays the video at the correct 640×360.

    Here’s a hint I’ve been trying to track down – the player that runs says “JW Player” in the bottom of the video screen. Could this be what needs to be adjusted? I can’t find any reference to it in your info or in WordPress info. Thanks again for all your help.

    Jowry

    Praveen Rajan

    (@praveen-rajan)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Hi Jowry,

    The video player used by this plugin is JW Player.

    http://www.longtailvideo.com/players

    What type of file are you mentioning here? Flash file meaning ‘flv’ or ‘swf’?

    I could cross check it if you could give your website link.

    Thanks,
    Praveen

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