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(4 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Hello again,

I am back with results I could find:

  • tried JWPlayer, which provides solution for playing videos from your own server. Nice, but has no parameter to make it autoplay in fullscreen mode. Moreover it does display its logo overlaid on your video in its free version

  • went back to youtube, trying to find some way to launch it from the image link in fullscreen mode. There is none it seems. The best I could find and achieve was chromeless mode, which does not fill your whole screen, it just fills your whole browser window. That is obviously not exactly the youtube fullscreen mode. Moreover, viewers may get lost, since the only way to get back to the webpage, from this chromeless youtube player, is pressing the back navigation button in their browsers.

  • so I re-enabled your jscript which auto-fits videos to full page width - and to solve a problem with 4:3 videos, I have slightly edited iframe parameters, look below.

original code for iframe youtube video embed contained absolute height and width sizes in pixels, width="640" and height="480"
Video fitting script on Listviewer page then fills the full width of the page, but is ignoring the height, therefore enlarged the older 4:3 video so much that it would crop bottom part of it (on 16:9 displays).

My little hack solved it for me. I have changed absolute sizes to relative: width="100%" height="55%"
interesting for me was to find out that if I combined relative height in percents with absolute width in pixels, it also interpreted height as absolute and displayed the video only 55 pixels tall. :D After I have changed the width to relative 100%, it worked just fine.
(cannot post the whole code, because this forum doesn't allow me to post any links, not even within code tags, sorry)


PS: I am already re-rendering the mosque animation to small HD, 16:9 ;) Other 2 animations are unfortunately so old, that they were produced to final PAL resolution at that time, and there is no way (or will) to remaster them to HD

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(4 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Thank you for your reply Steven!
It certainly gave me the direction. I will also look this space for possible advices from other users, and meanwhile try to explore possibilities you have sketched.

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(4 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Hello,

we are using showcase with juicebox and listviewer (pro versions) for our online portfolio and we are very happy with how it works with images. However, we are still trying to make our animations look better on it. (there are very few yet, compared to images where the hardest part was to select just best ones, but they are very important to show)

here is our current website link:
v-p-s.co.uk

I was able to manage all the fine tuning on image gallery, including minor adjustments to footer, main menu, various css changes - all working just fine! Here i want to say big thanks for clean and well thought css design guys.
But when you click menu item "Animations", you will probably won't applaud for blurry enlarged videos there, which won't fit in your screen.

How to do this:

  • custom handmade JPG images as video thumbnails

  • thumbnails aligned in a single column, centered (all source jpgs will have same size)

  • size auto-fills used display device - up to certain width (to avoid enlargement of images which makes them blurry)

  • clicking on the thumbnail will play video in fullscreen mode


I realise that there are questions and tasks not only for Showkase, but also which host to use for videos. Vimeo has ads when free, Youtube videos embeded on Listviewer page autofits screen width, which makes 4:3 videos actually larger than your monitor and therefor you won't see the whole video until you switch it to fullscreen playback, other video players require addons to page head tag (jscript) to work...
Which solution do you use guys? Or which would you recommend for general animations showcasing?

I agree, excellent sum of info, sticky