Fullscreen?

[Chippy]

Hello there.

I have a movie player playing to a screen that can optionally go fullscreen of a sorts, rather similar to Google Video (http://video.google.com/). My problem is that when I do, the video quality is realllllyyyyy bad, especially when compared to .avi files etc and they're fullscreen. Is this inherent to flash? Is there any way to get around it? The way I do it I simply change the video player's _width - is this possibly because of that? Also, is this because of the .flv encoding, the .flv playback, or possibly both?

Help is hugely appreciated :).

[Chippy]

I guess no one can help?

[pan69]

What codec are you using? Are you using the Flash 7 or Flash 8 video? there is a big quality difference between the two.

[Chippy]

Tried both, they both play well at normal or smaller sizes, but when it's enlarged it gets extraordinarily ugly.

[pan69]

Well, it's not really strange that when you enlarge a small video to a high resolution screen size, that the video looks crap. Maybe you should try to increase the width and height of the original video or, even better, decide on the bandwidth to go for a low-res or high-res or whatever in between video format.

[Chippy]

Well, I expect some drop, but the drop in a .avi or the like is so much smaller as to be virtually unnoticable. I don't get what you mean with the bandwidth part, but here bandwidth and file size is a moot point - the quality has to be high high high.

[pan69]

Oke, then let me ask you what is the width & height of your video and to what size is it scaled when playing it fullscreen?

[Chippy]

Not really any specific size-to-size, but any maginification seems to degrade the qulality. We were hoping to do 640x480 to 1024x768 and the like, these are things that WMP and others do all the time...

[pan69]

What are you using to play the actual video? Are you using any components or are you playing video straight from a Video object? The Video object has a boolean property called smoothing. Maybe you've got it set to false?

[Chippy]

Hmm, I'll check that. Using default values though.

Also, another complaint is the CPU usage - between 30 and 50%, and laggy a bit too.