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change the width value of an embedded video using preg_replace or similar

Dear all,
I have been looking at a simple solution to change the width (and height, but I imagine once I know for the width it is easy to change the height in the same manner) of embedded videos.

I can't imagine it is difficult, but I just can't get my head around regular expressions.

Thank you in advance

example of embedded video code:
 
<object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/JohnMaeda_2007-embed_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JohnMaeda-2007.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=172" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/JohnMaeda_2007-embed_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JohnMaeda-2007.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=172"></embed></object>

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light_tuner

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Hi al3cs12,

thanks a lot for your post. it does what it supposed to do (i.e. changing width end height) but using the example I provided, it crops the video.

Is there a way to scale the video to match the size I am setting?

Thanks

light_tuner

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just to make sure (and my apology if I didn't formulate my question properly)
how would I go about scaling the width and height according to the desired width?

I imagine I would need to know both values to get the ratio and then deduce the new height from the width I set?

Thanks again

Ionut A. Tudor

I think changing &vw=432&vh=240 parameters should do the trick

Ionut A. Tudor

those parameters are set in the url, because the object and embed width and height automatically resizes the movie, but that parameters in the url &vw=432&vh=240 also sets the width and height, you need to replace these also. Good luck