wmode direct in older browsers does not scale screen or clip correctly

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
$f("player", {src: "/flowplayer-3.2.9.swf", wmode: "direct"}, {clip: {scaling: 
'fit'});
in a container which matches the clip's dimensions.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: screen or movie fills container
Instead: in some older browsers black bar at top and bottom

Does not happen w/o wmode direct!

Sample: http://flowplayer.blacktrash.org/test/accel.html

Browsers:
Verified for: Safari 5.0.6 (Mac)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by blacktrashproduct on 7 May 2012 at 6:16

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running osx lion here cannot test. have a screenshot ? 

Original comment by electrot...@gmail.com on 7 May 2012 at 7:40

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yup. Note that the black bars are neither from the canvas, nor the screen; I've 
now configured the demo like so:

canvas: {
  backgroundGradient: "none",
  backgroundColor: "#ff0000"
}, 
screen: {
  backgroundGradient: "none",
  backgroundColor: "#ff0000"
} 

So both canvas and screen would be red.

Original comment by blacktrashproduct on 8 May 2012 at 10:06

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• accel.jpg

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5.0.6 is snow leopard correct ? no idea how to get that version running. I can 
see black borders but no idea where that is coming from. 

Original comment by electrot...@gmail.com on 8 May 2012 at 2:32

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No, 10.5.8 - Leopard.

Original comment by blacktrashproduct on 8 May 2012 at 4:01

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i may need a copy to run in vmware ive given away all my old OS dvds :D

What i have available in vmware is XP, Windows 7, Linux. And running lion here. 

Original comment by electrot...@gmail.com on 10 May 2012 at 1:59

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ill have access to vmware of vista and leapord shortly. 

Original comment by electrot...@gmail.com on 10 May 2012 at 2:30

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I found a vmware image of leapord, it comes with safari 3, this is what I see. 
5.0.5 is snow leapord, it will take me too long to download / attempt to 
install as a vmware image. I think it's a local problem. 

Original comment by electrot...@gmail.com on 12 May 2012 at 3:31

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It just means that you don't have on older browser available.

Note that MacOS 10.5.8 also is 2 32bit only architecture, so no Flash > 10.3 - 
except in Google Chrome which provides 2 Flash plugins (which leads to 
different problems).

Might be a Flash bug. But it's definitely a bug.

Or you say that we only support MacOS 10.7 and greater ... then indeed I have a 
"local problem".

Original comment by blacktrashproduct on 12 May 2012 at 4:50

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what combination are we talking about, this is OSX leapord base install with 
safari 3 as early as you can go I guess. 

I'm saying if I need to try and get snow leapord with safari 5.0.5 loaded in 
vmware it will take hours. 

Original comment by electrot...@gmail.com on 14 May 2012 at 4:01

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No worries. Just leave the bug open, so it's documented. That's what a bug 
tracker is for. At least we know what we're talking about, when someone brings 
it up.

btw, I upgraded to the latest Flash available for this architecture yesterday: 
10,3,183,19. And the behaviour is still there.

Original comment by blacktrashproduct on 14 May 2012 at 5:45

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what os / browser combination ?. I dont see an issue with osx leapord with 
safari 3. 

no if its not a bug or if its fixed it should be closed to keep the listing 
clean. 

Original comment by electrot...@gmail.com on 18 May 2012 at 4:16

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Mac OS 10.5.8, Safari 5.0.6, Flash 10.3.183.19, Flowplayer 3.2.10 ...

But we now have a much bigger problem with Flash 10.3 and Flowplayer 3.2.11! 
For demo purposes I set

canvas: {
  backgroundGradient: "none",
  backgroundColor: "#ff0000"
}, 
screen: {
  backgroundGradient: "none",
  backgroundColor: "#ff0000"
}

http://flowplayer.blacktrash.org/test/accel.html

And now I only see red! In ALL 32bit browsers which cannot update to Flash 11. 
Google Chrome with Flash 11.2 does not have the problem. But other browsers I 
cannot update beyond 10.3.

Original comment by blacktrashproduct on 18 May 2012 at 10:39

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In viewing an unrelated ticket that was opened again I see the issue now. If 
you test with the commerical player with the logo, it will fit within the 
screen correctly. The mask was taken out because it was not positioned 
correctly in the display list and forcing the stage video on top over 
everything, this is related to 508 sadly, if the commercial player logo is 
appearing it will fit within the screen area ie with a canvas border added you 
can see it fits correctly. 

Original comment by electrot...@gmail.com on 31 May 2012 at 2:00

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I don't understand what you're saying, but the issue with Flash 10.3 is 
extremely obvious: you don't see any video AT ALL, just the red screen or 
canvas.

Original comment by blacktrashproduct on 1 Jun 2012 at 12:05

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Scaling works, testing Leapord on vmware to look at black bar issue. There is 
definitely confirmed differences between architectures. 

Original comment by electrot...@gmail.com on 13 Aug 2012 at 2:00

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From our discussion and screen share the black bar is definitely there and 
different between architectures but don't have such hardware or configuration 
to test it. Scaling however is functioning fine now. 

Original comment by electrot...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2012 at 4:48

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What should we do about this one. I eventually saw the blackbar in your screen 
share but don't have the same hardware configuration to test. From the looks of 
it it doesn't affect playback. 

Original comment by electrot...@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2012 at 9:21