Last modified: 2013-06-24 04:04:31 UTC
It would be helpful if a specific transcode (or the original resolution) could be preset when embedding a video in an article (something like [[File:video.ogv|thumb|200px|480p]]). Currently the lowest resolution seems to be preset. Background for this request can be found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Video#Transcoding_quality. To summarize: On some specific files the preset transcoding options might produce transcodes that are larger and/or have much poorer quality than the original upload. Since we can't influence transcoding options and disabling transcoding completely for some files is probably not an option either at least being able to chose the by default selected video quality seems like the only feasible possibility to gain some control over which video is played.
The resolution is based on the embed size. One thing we could do is auto switch to higher resolution when you go into fullscreen. For most of English wikipedia embed players now days pop-up a window to display the video, in such cases the embed resolution is larger because the player is larger.
