TED Talk Oembeds Show Portrait Frame with Landscape Video

[andrejcarter]

I'm using 4.0RC1 with Twenty Fourteen. The TED Talk embeds aren't showing as I'd expect them to. Prior to hitting play the still video is showing in portrait and filling up the entire video window. Once I hit play the window remains portrait, but the video playing inside of it is landscape with black space above and below. I've attached pictures.

[andrejcarter]

Ted Talk video playing

[andrejcarter]

Ted Talk video before playing

[helen]

Moving for investigation and resolution.

[ocean90]

At the current state we have to remove TED from the whitelist. Since this effects also the about page I'm raising the priority.

[johnbillion]

Just to confirm, this issue is specific to TED's oEmbed endpoint. If you use the embed code provided on any video page on TED, the video appears as expected:

[andrejcarter]

I embedded the same video on a live site here - ​http://ajorel.com/2014/ted-talk-embeds/. The exact line I used to oembed is also below.

http://www.ted.com/talks/sally_kohn_don_t_like_clickbait_don_t_click

[helen]

Per IRC:

johnbillion: the height should be proportional to the video's width, and cast the maxwidth and maxheight to positive integers

[helen]

TED's developer is looking at this now.

[nacin]

helen and I have been told TED.com will have this deployed at 10am ET on Sept 3. If by the time we're ready to release it's not working, we'll change the string and have translators translate it on the fly before releasing.

[helen]

TED pushed the changes live a little while ago and it is looking good to keep. Noting some observations about maxwidth/maxheight values with them, but it is not a dealbreaker. With thanks to George and Bedirhan at TED, and jaragozzine for the communication assist, as well as everybody else who dove in to test and investigate yesterday.

[summoner]

So Ted talks better at last? ;-)
Yay, it seems this was the last ticket for a while.

[padraigbeirne]

Thanks to andrejcarter for reporting the issue.