[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #50416: 5.5 About Page

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#50416: 5.5 About Page
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 Reporter:               |       Owner:  marybaum
  davidbaumwald          |
     Type:  task         |      Status:  reopened
  (blessed)              |
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  5.5
Component:  Help/About   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  i18n-change  |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility, administration,
  has-patch              |  ui-copy
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Comment (by desrosj):

 I am also able to reproduce. Looking at previous screenshots, it appears
 the video was presented in a portrait orientation before.

 If it's desired both videos be the same width and height, then the
 contents of the video should be captured to take up the whole width using
 the right aspect ratio. I believe the boxes are happening because the
 dimensions of the video were forced to 960x540 during whatever conversion
 was performed, and the canvas is being expanded.

 As for the video file, an MP4 file should support Apple devices. I just
 did some testing, and I used Quicktime to screen record, and exported as a
 1080p video. This creates a .mov file, but because a .mov is usually just
 an MP4 wrapped in a .mov mime type, changing the file extension seemed to
 work fine, and I couldn't reproduce the Safari issue above.

 Side note, the video also does not appear to be super crisp. The last time
 a video appeared on the about page was 5.0.

 I went back and checked out the video from 5.0
 ([https://s.w.org/images/core/5.0/videos/add-block.mp4 found here]). It
 had a ~2100 pixel wide resolution. The video files we use need to be a lot
 larger. This does cause the text to be not as crisp due to the downsizing,
 though. In 5.0, the video had a larger viewing area (~680 pixels). This
 did result in a small amount of distortion, but still looked good and
 could be brought to full-screen view without any clarity issues.

 In 5.0, a WEBM file was also provided as a backup video source. The same
 should be done here.

 To give the video a wider display area, could we maybe use the same layout
 as in the security section with the wider video on the side. Alternating
 the sides that the video is on perhaps?

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