Documentation for the VideoPress player

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  justinwyllie · Member · Aug 17, 2012 at 7:51 pm

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  Hi

  Is there some documentation somewhere about the VideoPress player which will tell me what these parameters control? Some are obvious but not all.

  wmode=”direct”
  seamlesstabbing=”true”
  allowfullscreen=”true”
  allowscriptaccess=”always”
  overstretch=”true”

  Also; in general is there some developer documentation about the player? E.g. about when it uses Flash player mode and when it uses the video element mode?

  Thanks

  –JustinWyllie
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  justinwyllie · Member · Aug 17, 2012 at 7:54 pm

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  Also – about how to skin it? I see you can replace the VideoPress logo, but I can’t find the instructions

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 17, 2012 at 8:30 pm

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  We don’t have any documentation beyond http://en.support.wordpress.com/videopress/

  The parameters are subject to change, and allowfullscreen definitely turn on/off the fullscreen button, but I’ll see if I can get some more specific answers for you.

  Also, the VideoPress logo cannot be replaced at this time.

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  justinwyllie · Member · Aug 17, 2012 at 8:47 pm

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  Hi

  Thanks a lot MacManx. These are my specific questions:

  1. What do the parameters wmode, seamlessstabbing and overstretch mean?
  2. When does it used Video element mode instead of Flash player if possible?

  OK. Thanks for telling me about the logo. Maybe this is something in the pipeline? This help page http://videopress.com/flash-video-player/ definitely seems to suggest it is possible.

  Thanks again

  –Justin Wyllie

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 17, 2012 at 8:58 pm

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  I’ll get the answers for #1 as soon as possible.

  As for #2, The Flash-less HTML5 embed is used whenever possible. It only falls back to the Flash player if you uncheck “Display share menu and allow viewers to embed or download this video” or if the browser does not natively support the available MP4 or OGG formats, like Internet Explorer.

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  pento · Member · Aug 20, 2012 at 5:20 am

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  Here’s a quick rundown of those parameters you weren’t sure about:

  wmode – This is the “window mode” that the player uses – setting this to direct allows Flash to use the graphics hardware to accelerate the video decoding.
  seamlesstabbing – This inserts the video into the tab-ordering on the page, so users without a mouse can “tab” through the video controls.
  overstretch – This tells the player to stretch the video to use as much of the display window as possible, even if the window is larger than the video resolution.

  One minor correction – VideoPress will use the Flash player where possible, and fall back to the HTML5 video tag when Flash can’t be used. As more browsers start to provide hardware accelerated support for the HTML5 video tag, we’ll be looking at changing this around.

  With regards to changing the logo, this is currently only available to our VIP users.