How can I make HTML 5 video playback fit to frame instead of maintaining aspect ratio?

Question

I\'ve been experimenting with HTML5 video playback. For example I have this video object embedded on my page:

Answer 1

A little late now, but the object-fit CSS3 property will satisfy this need. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-images/#object-fit It is already implemented in Opera, see http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/08/03/presto-update .