Laytheme crops my 16:9 videos

[caromo]

I'm working on a new page and I noticed that my 16:9 videos were cropped automatically by Lay. I did a page with a screenshot of the video at the left i the video cropped by lay on the right to prove.

https://carlesrodrigo.es/videos/

Thank you

[Richard]

Dear @caromo

Thank you for the clear testing 👍
I recreated your video on my test site:

https://rickei3.dreamhosters.com/video-crop-test/

You can see that if the video has enough room it will be the correct ratio but if needed it will crop to fit it's spacing within a Gridder Layout. I will forward to Armin to make sure this if this intended or not ✅

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Best wishes & thank you for supporting Lay Theme @caromo ✨

Richard

[caromo]

Hey Richard, thank you for your quick reply.

In your test site I see both cases are cropped too.

I think this should be based on heigh not wide. If your put on a carrousel the same problem happens. And vertical videos too.

Thanks,
Carles

[Richard]

@caromo

Thanks for the update Carles & for your patience with the cropped videos 🌝

[caromo]

Hey @Richard still not conclusion with this?

Thank you so much,
Carles

[Richard]

Dear Carles

@caromo

Please insert this code into:

Lay Options > Custom CSS & HTML > Custom CSS >

.type-html5video video{
    height:auto !important;
}

Result:

Let me know if this works for you Carles as a temporary fix 🌝

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Best

Richard

[caromo]

@Richard, thank you for your answer!

Well it works, but the space of the video is the same as before, so you can see under the video a blank space and the sound control is when it was placed without this code...

Is a bit weird...

https://carlesrodrigo.es/videos/

[arminunruh]

hey!

so it seems that wordpress gets the wrong sizes for videos sometimes.

is there any way you can export that video again and use a different size, like the aspect ratio can stay the same but try and export the video with a different width, maybe a standard one like 1280px.
or try and convert the video somehow.

i think the issue is with the video file itself.

[caromo]

Yes, something is happening with videos! I cropped with 1920x1080 and something happened! But a video from stock works well!

Don't understand at all... will search more info!

[caromo]

Hey,

First of all, thank you for your help... but yes the video was not correctly exported, so was our fault!

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Best!

[Richard]

Thank you for coming back and updating @caromo have a wonderful day 🌻

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Best

Richard