Feature Request - set player size manually per video/audio.

[grahamarmfield]

The default dimensions for the player are width to be 100% of available space and for video the height at 300px. This works well in certain situations but is not flexible enough to suit all implementations.

It is possible to constrain the width of the player by placing the link to the media within a div with a set width, however that does not help with the height.

Can I suggest the javascript functionality that scans content for the media links also looks for width and height settings that may be placed there by content authors and developers.

How about using the HTML5 facility for attaching data attributes to the link? Example: data-media-width and data-media-height. So the link to a video would now look like:
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXiGXcq4pqY" data-media-height="350px" data-media-width="50%"

The javascript functions could then pass these values to the flash params. Functionality could stick with your current defaults if one or both of the attributes are absent.

This is just an idea - if there's a better way to do it, the requirement is still a useful one I believe.

The player has a lot of config options for setting widths and heights:

flashWidth: '100%',
flashHeight: '300px',
playerStyles : {
'height' : '100%',
'width' : '100%'
},
...

These are customizable so you can easy calculate a 16:9 ratio based on width, pass in the value of a data-attribute or set the width and height based on whatever values you require. Does this not give you the customizability required? For example:

flashWidth: $(this).attr(data-media-width),
flashHeight: $(this).attr(data-media-height),

[grahamarmfield]

I am using your player as a WordPress plugin for use on my own site and for clients who require an accessible player. Generally these clients are non-technical. Ideally I wish to allow configuration of the size of the player on an instance by instance basis with the use of a WordPress shortcode with attributes to instantiate the player on required pages/posts.

I figured that placing the optional 'data-...' attributes into the link that gets placed on the page could then be picked up by your jQuery code. Although I understand a fair bit about how WordPress works I am not at all versed in jQuery so I wouldn't know where to start to get this to work. So I'm afraid your hints above mean very little to me.

[mgifford]

Related issue here #26