Flash video with too wide a frame when uploaded

Hello,
I have a short flash movie (.swf) having a width of 320px
and a height of 240px. It works as expected locally (when I
open the page with dreamweaver and FF2 or IE7) but as soon
as I have uploaded the file to my website the movie gets a
much smaller size and a wide grey frame around it in both
browsers.
I don't understand what's causing this and how I can prevent
it.
If you would like to see the problem, this is the page with
the video (German language website).
http://www.paul-westrich.de/Profile/meg_nigriventris_movie.php
The video should be as big as the lighter grey frame.
Paul

hadrons123 wrote:
there are other simple ways too...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6584
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … form=linux
but the thread is focussing on flash player CPU usage....
II know most of these solutions. What I am most interested to is to play the videos with mplayer; preferably without having to download them first. What I am doing now if to use www.keepyoutube.com and give the url provided to mplayer. I would be interested in a firefox plugin that launch mplayer on the video URL (there was the media player connectivity but it has not been updated and did not work for flash).
Last edited by olive (2011-11-18 16:06:54)

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