Whenever I upload a Flash file, the resolution that e621 decides to display it at is incorrect, is there a method of manually specifying what resolution (ie 1200px X 1280px) a SWF is?

I'm trying to upload a second flash by this artist, and the first one they uploaded has the same issue: https://e621.net/post/show/818792/anthro-balls-belly-bikini-blinky_bill_-series-brea

The correct resolution for the above flash should be 964x1280, as it is displayed on furaffinity http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18958271/ but e621 is displaying it way too wide, and not tall enough. Is there a fix for this?

The second flash I'm trying to upload is 1200 X 1280, but every time I upload it, it comes up at something like 1200 X 200px. I've tried twice already, and I got the same result both times.

Is there a way that either I or a moderator can fix the display resolution of these files?

forum #182143

mabit said:
I'm guessing flash upload hasn't been fixed yet?

post #817664 comes out in a much smaller resolution (359x121 instead of 1280x907)
I made sure to put the correct resolution in while creating the submission and it works well on FA.

Perhaps the code that retrieves the flash's metadata is getting confused in
some cases? I'm not sure if it is related to the file's properties (Flash version? Does flash even support different versions of it's file headers?) or to some sort of traffic issue that causes the upload to change to a smaller size (I noticed the site seemed pretty overloaded while I was uploading the post, but I can't guarantee it wasn't just on my side)

Just a few thoughts I had

I could also give some help in resolving this since I can just recompile the swf changing a few parameters to test it out, give a holler if you guys need that

forum #182164

Mario69 said:
Yeah, flash resolution detect is still busted. Almost all recent uploads have problems, there's even one with negative value!
And people are simply downvoting them because of the size. MD5 hash matches to source in all scenarios, so they weren't corrupted in upload.

forum #182191

parasprite said:
We'll work on getting a fix for this as soon as possible.

In the meantime, please tag any posts you find with bad_metadata. As long as we know which ones were affected we should be able to fix the post's metadata in-place (i.e., without re-uploading it).

Use the bad_metadata tag.

Lance_Armstrong said:
forum #182143

forum #182164

forum #182191

Use the bad_metadata tag.

Thanks, some of the ones I've been uploading are coming out almost un-seeable!

I have simply been avoiding posting .swf files and just keeping links and files until the issue is fixed. Because people keep asking about this, trying to remove the files as corrupted, reuploading, downvoting and all the other stuff which only means more work for everyone.

Before it's fixed, it's still possible to upload .webm and .gif animations like normally, some artists do post their work in multiple formats because of site limitations. With some situations those formats may be far better than .swf to begin with, because especially on FA it seems like artists are putting .gif files inside .swf to bypass FAs stupid thumbnail errors.

But if flash is posted by you or someone else, tell people to click download button in the description or as comment, possibly also link to discussion that the fix is on the way (latest one is forum #183253 ), add in bad_metadata tag and do not panic!

(Also to check if the file is actually corrupted, compare MD5 hashes of the files. e621 generates this to filename)