Try resizing the browser window or viewing this page on your mobile phone.
This one is 16:9
And so is this one:
Custom Start Time:
Digitakt
YouTube only tells us if the video is HD or not, so for now YouTube videos are presented as either 16:9 or 4:3.
This video is from Vimeo and has a super wide non-standard aspect ratio:
Vimeo supports pretty much any aspect ratio you give it. The Fluid Video Embeds plugin reads the dimensions from Vimeo’s API and then figures out the aspect ratio and preserves it.
This one is 2.39:1
More Anamorphic Videos
Joren Kandel
September 5, 2019 — 6:01 am
Hey, thanks so much for an epic plugin. I am having an issue currently though with all my embeds which switched to being sqaure embeds, and not 16×9. Any idea what might be the issue? Let me know, thanks!!
Jamie Hamel-Smith
September 5, 2019 — 4:24 pm
The plugin got too popular and YouTube audited my API access (they were asking me for a bunch of data that I could not provide and did not have). I’ve killed the plugin, so there won’t be any more updates. If you want to continue using the plugin, you can get a YouTube API key of your own and add it to the lib/constants file, replacing my now defunct API key.
If that doesn’t sound like something you’d like to do, you can also just try disabling the plugin. WordPress’ default YouTube embeds are better these days; the plugin might actually be redundant.
Lyubo
December 6, 2016 — 10:04 am
Hi,
it is a great plugin! Is it possible the float the video to the left and have some text on the right? Perhaps with custom css?
brook
January 29, 2015 — 1:06 pm
I’m looking for a responsive, full width, auto play, with controls (play/stop/volume etc.) plugin that I can include in my header.php of my WP template. Can your plugin do those things?
Jamie Hamel-Smith
January 29, 2015 — 5:03 pm
Sorry, but my plugin might not be right for you. It doesn’t do autoplay. It just embeds YouTube or Video videos in a more stretchy way.
Dan
October 4, 2017 — 4:30 pm
Hi Jamie,
I updated the plugin code to support all youtube option parameters and made a pull request on github with the required updates.
When you have time, please accept the changes, I’m sure you users will be as happy to benefit from them as I am.
borisa
November 27, 2014 — 2:53 am
Hi,
A week ago, I asked for your permission to translate your Fluid Video Embeds plugin. Since I didn’t get any answer from you, it would be very kind of you to consider my proposal and let me know if its alright to translate it.
Regards,
Borisa Djuraskovic
borisa
November 20, 2014 — 1:52 am
Hi,
Let me introduce myself. My name is Borisa Djuraskovic. I am associated with Web Hosting Hub. Your Fluid Video Embeds plugin at http://jamie3d.com/fluid-video-embeds-demo/ is very interesting. I want to translate it to my native language Serbo-Croatian.
Do you mind if I do so?
Please let me know!!!
Regards,
Borisa Djuraskovic
Jamie Hamel-Smith
November 23, 2014 — 8:32 pm
That sounds great! Just email me at [email protected] and I’ll get you started.
Nicat
August 12, 2014 — 7:46 am
Hi. How to remove (automatic) Youtube allowfullscrenn option, and add autoplay=1, autohide=1&iv_load_policy=3 functions?
Thanks in advance!
Jamie Hamel-Smith
August 12, 2014 — 7:55 am
Hi, unfortunately these are not options yet. You will have to edit the plugin files to achieve this.
Guil2209
June 5, 2014 — 10:38 pm
That plugin is awesome for ratios but I can’t change any other parameter like the scale or adding a border, etc. As soon as I try to to some parameters the video disappears and leaves only the source address of the video.
David
February 1, 2014 — 9:22 pm
Hi there, I installed this plugin, and it had no effect. My youtube video is inserted with the iframe embed code. I saw you mention in the forum something about using oEmbed- not sure if that is different or how to do it. Any help or suggestions much appreciated. Thank you!!
Jamie Hamel-Smith
February 3, 2014 — 9:27 am
You just need to add the YouTube URL to the post. No embed code is necessary, and something like this: http://d.pr/i/PfiO should be sufficient.
David
February 4, 2014 — 10:51 am
I tried that- just displays the text of the URL.
Chirag
December 6, 2013 — 12:27 am
Hey Jamie, very nice plugin I’m using it since 6 months. Recently I’m running into some problems though.
Sometimes I want to respect the maximum width (in pixels) of video in the iframe. The plugin overrides it. I understand that that’s the whole point of the plugin 🙂 but the video is sometimes way too wide.
Is it possible somehow to restrict the maximum width of video at the same time reduce the width in small screens?
Jamie Hamel-Smith
December 6, 2013 — 9:46 pm
I think this is something that can be done.
I’ve been making a list of some upgrades I’d like to add to the plugin. I’ll see if I can add a max-width setting when I release a new version.
Bartosch
October 31, 2013 — 5:32 am
Hi Jamie,
would it be possible to add flickr support ? I solved the youtube/vimeo issue with your great plugin, but since i use a lot of flickr integration it ‘would be great to make everything work in on plugin.
Anyway thank you for your great work !
Jamie Hamel-Smith
October 31, 2013 — 2:54 pm
I can definitely look into it. Can you send me to the type of embed code you’re currently using for Flickr? [email protected]
John A
August 20, 2013 — 10:43 am
The plugin for my WordPress site has been working great. All the videos have been 16:9 ration. However, my client uploaded a new YouTube video and for some reason, YouTube must not be setting the aspect meta element to “widescreen” as it’s showing in the WordPress page as a 4:30 video. (i.e. the height for the fve-video-wrapper DIV is defaulting to a height of 75% vs. the ‘widescreen’ 56.25% I see your PHP code sets if it sees ‘widescreen’ from YouTube.) Do you know of a quick way to see what YouTube is sending so I can check if the problem with the client’s video? Or possibly a way to force YouTube to set it as a widescreen video? I suppose I could modify the PHP code and make the default height for that main DIV for videos using this plugin to be 56.25% since they all will be if I had to. Any suggestions would be great.
John A
August 20, 2013 — 1:31 pm
For now since all my videos are widescreen, I set the the “padding-bottom” variable in the plugin to always be 56.25%. Waiting to hear from the client to see if maybe they encoded it with a pixel aspect ration that wasn’t square which sometimes throws YT off. Thanks again for the plugin!
Jamie Hamel-Smith
September 5, 2013 — 9:42 pm
I just released a new version that hopefully should fix this issue. (version 1.1.1)
Here’s the actual change.
Mitch Powell
June 7, 2013 — 3:04 pm
YouTube and Vimeo. What about my own .mp4s I have on my Amazon S3?
Jamie Hamel-Smith
June 8, 2013 — 12:15 pm
Hi Mitch,
Unfortunately it won’t natively support these. It just adjusts the way that Vimeo and YouTube embeds are handled. It doesn’t have its own video player.
Sandeep
May 29, 2013 — 12:07 am
Hi Jamie,
Is the plugin compatible with multisite.
Jamie Hamel-Smith
June 2, 2013 — 10:54 am
It should be, but I’ve never tested it.
Patrick Cohen
November 26, 2012 — 5:43 am
Hiya folks!
Just wanted to let you know that your Fluid Video Embeds plugin was included in a round-up of responsive WordPress plugins today.
Here’s a link to the article: http://wpmu.org/16-cool-responsive-wordpress-plugins-for-images-and-videos/
Have a great day!
Jamie Hamel-Smith
November 29, 2012 — 10:03 pm
Thanks for including me in the roundup Patrick, it’s much appreciated.
Neal
November 19, 2012 — 11:09 am
Thanks for this. Does the plugin work for playlists?
Jamie Hamel-Smith
November 19, 2012 — 8:46 pm
It’s not designed to, but depending on how the playlist is embedded, it might. What code are you using for your playlists?
Neal
November 20, 2012 — 1:13 pm
I’ve tried both the embed code that you can get from the playlist’s page and the code you can get from the page of the first video of a playlist.
Ron
September 23, 2012 — 3:14 pm
Will the plugin allow me to omit the Vimeo branding?
Jamie Hamel-Smith
September 23, 2012 — 3:19 pm
No, the Vimeo branding is part of their agreement that allows you to use their service. I actually can’t and will not try to remove the branding. I believe that Vimeo’s Pro service allows this, but at that point you need to do a custom integration and you’ve already exceeded the ability of this plugin.
This plugin simply makes the videos stretchy (so they fit your layout) and reduces the video overlays for a less cluttered appearance (using YouTube’s and Vimeo’s available options).
Den
August 16, 2012 — 4:53 pm
that’s really neat scaling trick…nice…pretty useful for viewers using tablets and android phones…
ray
August 9, 2012 — 9:15 am
how / where, do you configure (how many videos on one line) ??
Plugin already installed, activated..
The is no configuration, which will allow me to embed FOUR YouTube videos on ONE Line.
does my blog HAVE to be on WordPress.org ???
Jamie Hamel-Smith
August 9, 2012 — 11:44 am
Hi Ray,
Yes this plugin only works for self hosted WordPress sites, so as long as you can install the plugin, it will work.
It doesn’t offer the option to show videos side by side. The demo page is just designed that way to show that the plugin allows the video to scale and fit the space that’s given to it, not just the full page width.