It may be the layout that is being applied to teh ParallelElement in the plugin, but I have also seen some issues recently (on another project we're working on) with layout being inconsistent with ParallelElements regardless of the layout metadata applied to it and/or its container.

I'll spend some time trying to reproduce what you're referencing and see if I can come up with something.

in the "player_config.xml".

I got to the point where I saw the plugin loading in firebug, but noting was shown in the player.

flashvars:
src=the_long_video_url.flv
&plugin_watermark=WatermarkPlugin.swf
&watermark_namespace =http://osmf.realeyes.com/plugins/watermark
&watermark_url=watermark.png
&watermark_vAlign=bottom
&watermark_hAlign=right

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<config>
<src&gt ;http://mediapm.edgesuite.net/strobe/content/test/AFaerysTale_sylviaApostol_640_500_short.flv</src>
<autoPlay>true</autoPlay>
<plugin>
<src>WatermarkPlugin.swf</src>
<metadata id="http://osmf.realeyes.com/plugins/watermark">
<param name="url" value="watermark.png"/>
<param name="vAlign" value="bottom"/>
<param name="hAlign" value="right"/>
</metadata>
</plugin>
</config>

The watermarks shows and positions itself in the right spot, but the the video does not scale!
If the <plugin>-node is removed, the video scales correct.

I also tried to load the plugin with flashvars, but with the same result:

src =http://mediapm.edgesuite.net/strobe/content/test/AFaerysTale_sylviaApostol_640_500_short.flv&plugin_watermark=WatermarkPlugin.swf&watermark_namespace=http://osmf.realeyes.com/plugins/watermark&watermark_url=watermark.png&watermark_vAlign=bottom&watermark_hAlign=right

Has it something to do with the "parallellElement" created by the plug in?
Do you have any thaughts on this?

Also, an other question out of curiosity:
"WatermarkPluginInfo" takes "stage" as a parameter, but does not seem to be used anywhere. Is there a reason it is there?

Thanks again!