Scaling Captivate videos in RoboHelp Multiscreen

RoboHelp HTML 11, Captivate 7
I'm including Captivate videos into my Robohelp HTML project. I need to be able to shrink the video "object" to fit in our window.
Rick, you've answered this question several times over the years, such as here: Re: How do you scale captivate file in Robo 9 to fit the screen? In my case, the output has to run in Internet Explorer without Shockwave Flash enabled. (Also, the user won't have RoboHelp or Captivate installed, if that matters). I'm told that our Captivate demos were published in "Scalable HTML" format. I was using Multiscreen as the output, but I'm open to one of the other HTML outputs.
I tried it two different ways:
I imported the Demos using File --> Import --> Adobe Captivate Demo --> HTML5 Output, then selected the appropriate index.htm file. The videos run, but resizing the text box or demo "object" only crops the video. We even tried saving them in a smaller size in Captivate, but they seem to be the same size in RoboHelp.
I imported the project (*.cptx) using File --> Import --> Adobe Captivate Project. Doing this, I can resize the video (and watch it using that "viewer" that appears after I click "Generate"). However, when I run the index.htm file in Internet Explorer (as I assume the users will do), the video is blank unless I enable Flash. (This is despite the fact that I checked "Use Adobe Captivate HTML5 Output" in the Multiscreen layout!)
What's the best way to approach this? (I hope you're not going to tell me that I have to put everything into Baggage, because as you've pointed out in the past, that would be a very big job.)
Thanks.
-- Shawn

Hi Shawn
Unless you want to host the Captivate output separately from RoboHelp and just link to it where needed, you are going to find yourself a bit "stuck" with the baggage trick.
If the content needs to scale, you have a couple of ways to deal with it.
1. You can simply link from a TOC page to the html page for the Captivate output. Using this method should cause the Captivate output to scale to the topic frame.
2. You can insert an InlineFrame and point its content to the Captivate html page in Baggage. You would then need to configure the frame to be 100% wide. You would take this approach if you have other content that needs to come before and/or after the video.
I would heartily encourage you to report the pain points of being forced to add Baggage folders and files as a bug to Adobe using the link below.
Click here to view
Cheers... Rick

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