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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-70905

Media default width/height settings: time to use 16:9?

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 4.0
    • 4.0
    • Media
    • MOODLE_400_STABLE
    • MOODLE_400_STABLE
    • MDL-70905-master
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      1. On a newly installed Moodle, create CourseA.
      2. In CourseA create page module, in the page content add any YouTube link.
      3. Save and Display page, observe the link was rendered to media player
      4. Check that media player window size is 640 x 360.

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      1. On a newly installed Moodle, create CourseA. 2. In CourseA create page module, in the page content add any YouTube link. 3. Save and Display page, observe the link was rendered to media player 4. Check that media player window size is 640 x 360.

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      16:9 aspect ratio has become common in the latest decade, I think it is a time to review default values of media_default_width and media_default_height, to reflect current standards (and also make it fit to what become common screen resolutions these days).

      This is how those settings look now:

      I am not quite sure where those 400x300 originally came from, there is no such standard media resolution for 4:3 (may be video standards were not taken into account at all and it is just an optimal size for common screen resolution at a time). The closest possible dimensions that can be used for 16:9 are 640x360 (360p), 854 x 480 (480p) or 426 x 240 (240p). I think 360p is the most reasonable of those to be considered as default size (also used as default in JWPlayer).

      I am not suggesting other options e.g. possibility to specify aspect ratio or responsive mode, as they are player-specific features. I think for site defaults the static size is sufficient.

      Any opinions and thoughts are welcome.

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            David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo
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              19/Apr/22

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