When I open the AllVideos 4.7.0 plugin in the back end of my joomla! 3.6.5 site, I was getting this notice across the top of the page:

Strict Standards: Declaration of JWElement::render() should be compatible with JFormField::render($layoutId, $data = Array) in /home/sitename/public_html/plugins/content/jw_allvideos/jw_allvideos/includes/elements/base.php on line 17

My server is using PHP Version 5.6.3

I do not get this message on my local development copy (Bitnami Stack) that is using PHP version 5.6.29.

I learned how to turn off the notice reporting through Joomla! CMS but I still don’t understand why I was receiving the notice on one server and not the other since error reporting was set the same.

Most Importantly, could this be causing the black bars I am getting on top and bottom of my 4:3 video only when displayed on phones? This is happening only on my live server and not on my local server. I am using Google’s browser Development tools to discern these things because I don’t have a smart phone of my own. The video and black bars are also covering parts of the text on the page. My videos are totally responsive until they reach cell phone size. Please tell me how to remove the black bars from cell phone videos.

Here is a link to my site:

fishingbw.com


Thanks for your help.

This is to update my original post above. I'm using an Artisteer 4.3.0 generated template and Vimeo.

I have now used MVC Templating according to the advice given by Yiota in this thread:

[url=http://https://www.joomlaworks.net/forum/allvideos/14328-all-videos-not-resizing-%7Byoutube%7D]all-videos-not-resizing[/url]

I have also used 76% instead of 56%. to give me the screen ratio of 4:3 that I want for my full size web page. The videos now do not overlap my text on mobile devices and they fluidly resize with screen size, but the aspect ratio coverts to 16:9 for mobile devices and I get the black bars on the sides of the video.

I have tried playing around with some of the commands and parameters in the code in the css file, but I'm not a coder and I don't really know what I'm doing.

Does anybody know what adjustments I could make to the code so that I can make make my mobile videos look like my full size videos?

Thank You, BW

Hello,

Vimeo will display black bars if the video does not meet the exact dimensions/ ratio of the viewport. Youtube will stretch the thumbnail on the other hand.

There is only one way to solve this, is to provide the exact dimension of this video. However you are using a custom override, you will need to edit that override and hardcode a specific dimension.

Now as for the error message, you need to install the DEV version github.com/joomlaworks/allvideos

Thank you for your response Krikor.

As I mentioned previously I’m not a coder, but I’m willing to try any code you might be able to suggest. The dimensions of my videos are 640x480.

I would very much appreciate any suggestions you could offer.

Thank you, BW

There is a div element inserted by Artisteer which is enforcing the 16.9 ratio -> jmp.sh/IxmbxIO

You need to edit that element's properties as well.

Wow! Thank you very much Krikor!

Changing padding-bottom to 76% worked perfectly! Now I will just have to remember to make that change the next time I generate a new template.

Now that you have solved my problem with the phone videos, I’m wondering if it would be too much of a favor to ask you to spot the bug in the tablet videos (iPad Pro)? Either way you have been a real life saver to me.

Thank you very much,
BW

Add this snippet in your template's stylesheet.

That was amazing Krikor, thank you very much!

LOL, I really didn’t understand where to put that snippet, and even after doing a little searching on the web, I just decided to drop it onto the end of the /* Begin Additional CSS Styles */section of the template.css file, and it worked beautifully.

Thank you very much for helping me with this and for helping to give all of my old videos and noncommercial website some extended life. I hope this thread helps many others as well.

Your effort in this matter has inspired me to purchase Frontpage Slideshow.

Thanks again,
BW

Thank you :)
I really appreciate your kind words!