Perhaps this is due to the recent change to fix the zoomed/shifted youtube videos in some browsers??

http://videosift.com/talk/Zoomed-shifted-youtube-videos

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This still has not been fixed. I think it would look bad to a casual visitor to Videosift if they found so many tiny videos. These aren't just isolated incidents either:

http://videosift.com/video/Living-With-Louis-Theroux-summary-of-7-When-Louis-Met-docs
http://videosift.com/video/The-Illusion-Of-Reality
http://videosift.com/video/Google-Documentary
http://videosift.com/video/How-does-a-Browser-see-the-Internet
http://videosift.com/video/Krispy-Kreme-So-good-youll-suck-dck
http://videosift.com/video/Copyright-regime-vs-civil-liberties-1
http://videosift.com/video/Murray-Gell-Mann-On-Getting-Creative-Ideas
http://videosift.com/video/Behind-the-Big-News
http://videosift.com/video/The-Birth-of-Israel-BBC-documentary
http://videosift.com/video/The-Daily-Show-Interview-with-author-of-Misquoting-Jesus
http://videosift.com/video/Iron-Maiden-Run-To-The-Hills
http://videosift.com/video/Mario-Lanza-Ave-Maria
http://videosift.com/video/Winger-Seventeen
http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Norton-Porn-Safety-and-Shaved-Pussy
http://videosift.com/video/Total-Hip-Replacement-Surgery-Highlights-317
http://videosift.com/video/Gershwins-Rhapsody-In-Blue-Leonard-Bernstein-conducting
http://videosift.com/video/Tour-of-Ancient-Islamic-Architecture

Though this problem doesn't affect all Google embeds, there are hundreds more that have been affected. *Quality catch by Stingray.

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*sticky *quality, godammit

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Simply modify the height and width numbers to make them compatible with the parameters of this site, right?

Fixed. *unsticky

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