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Embedded toggle between HD and SD video?
When embedding video, is there a way for viewers to toggle between HD and SD video? I can embed the HD video on my blog (premium member), but am concerned about viewers not having an option to watch a lower-quality clip instead.
The HD player and video takes a little while to load and I'm concerned that viewers on lower speed connections won't have the ability to control what level of quality of video they watch.
Any suggestions?
The HD player and video takes a little while to load and I'm concerned that viewers on lower speed connections won't have the ability to control what level of quality of video they watch.
Any suggestions?
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Hey folks,
Just to let you know some good news....we're working on the SD/HD toggle for the embedded player. I won't promise any set dates but this is something you'll hopefully see in the upcoming weeks.
Thanks for all of your suggestions!
Cheers,
Mona H.
Motionbox Support Team
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Hi there,
Thanks for posting this good question!
There is not a way to toggle currently between SD and HD on your embedded video, only on your video's play page. If you are concerned about the load time on a high quality video such as HD, you may consider embedding an alternate version such as SD or FS (Filmstrip) playback version of the video.
Also, when you share your video in an email, the recipient/viewer does then have the option to toggle between playback versions.
All the best,
Anita W.
Motionbox Support Team
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Inappropriate?Hi there,
Thanks for posting this good question!
There is not a way to toggle currently between SD and HD on your embedded video, only on your video's play page. If you are concerned about the load time on a high quality video such as HD, you may consider embedding an alternate version such as SD or FS (Filmstrip) playback version of the video.
Also, when you share your video in an email, the recipient/viewer does then have the option to toggle between playback versions.
All the best,
Anita W.
Motionbox Support Team
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Hello,
Please consider adding this feature in the near future. I really don't want to manage double the links (HD/SD) on my blog. I would want to set SD as my standard and allow the viewer to choose HD if available.
Thanks,
Corey Kinard -
Inappropriate?Yep, exactly, Corey. That's just how I would use it too, because many of my viewers can't play the HD very well. -
Inappropriate?If anyone writes a javascript wrapper for this, please let me know. :)
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Inappropriate?stm,
I wrote some javascript to toggle generate HTML for HD or SD for embed, hope this helps:
function generatePlayer(elementId, video, width, height, hd)
{
document.getElementById(elementId).innterHTML = '<embed src="http://www.motionbox.com/external/hd_player/type=' + (hd ? 'hd' : 'sd') +
',video_uid=' + video + '" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" width="' + width + '" height="' + height + '" allowFullscreen="true">';
}
You will need to wrap the <embed> into a <div id="someId"> and pass that "someId" to the function. The video parameter is the video uid
Art -
Inappropriate?Cool, simple but good. Thanks for posting.
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Inappropriate?Art, I expanded on your function, and posted about it here. I'm pretty happy with this approach now that I've been using it a bit. It's the next best thing to an in-player toggle.
I’m happy
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Beautiful work on the javascript. I'm pretty novice on that level.
I run a pair of wordpress blogs.
Does all this code above go within the HTML of the blog post or do I have to mess with the site templates etc?
If it goes within the post, any chance you can email me a sample HTML cut & paste from a blog, or do I just stick all the code at the top or bottom?
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Hi Mark, check out my reply on my blog. Hope that helps.
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Inappropriate?Hey folks,
Just to let you know some good news....we're working on the SD/HD toggle for the embedded player. I won't promise any set dates but this is something you'll hopefully see in the upcoming weeks.
Thanks for all of your suggestions!
Cheers,
Mona H.
Motionbox Support Team
I’m excited.
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Still waiting. Last update was 6 months ago. Most of your competitors offer this. Also, don't do as others do (hulu is terrible) where it's really hard to figure out if you are in HD or SD based on the UI. Make it a radio button or slider, or say 'hd-on' vs hd-off'
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Hi Mark,
Sorry about that - this was and still is on the road map for Motionbox improvements, but there are a bunch of other new things happening at Motionbox that have taken priority. However, we still know that you guys are looking forward to this and I'll be sure to pass your other feedback along to our team as well.
We really do appreciate everyone's patience - so thank you again!
Best,
Mona H.
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