To maintain reasonable proportions when resizing embedded YouTube video’s, multiply your desired height by

1.2354651162790697674418604651163

To get the correctly proportioned width.

For example: the original width of 425 pixels and height of 344 pixels resizes to 185px by 150px. The HTML fragment below shows you where to change the width and height values (change occurrences of the numbers 185 and 150).

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<object width="185" height="150">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TMtnrJdNs_o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TMtnrJdNs_o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="185" height="150"></embed></object>

Version 0.1 of my new micro-blogging plugin is now available.

You can download it from here.
I’m always looking for suggestions on I can improve things, any suggestions for amendments to tWPtter will be gratefully received.
Please post any comments below…..

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