FV Wordpress Flowplayer: Open Source, Unbranded and Free!
FV Wordpress Flowplayer plugin is a free, easy-to-use, and complete solution for embedding FLV or MP4 videos into your posts or pages.
Description:
- FV Wordpress Flowplayer is completely non-commercial. It contains modified opensource version of Flowplayer, with obnoxious Flowplayer branding on the front end (which makes the player useless) removed.
- Supported video formats are FLV, H.264, and MP4. Multiple videos can be displayed in one post or page.
- Default options (including the layout of player) for all the embedded videos can be set in comprehensive administration menu.
- It is loosely based on Wordpress Flowplayer plugin. However, there are several improvements:
- Doesn't use jQuery or any external library, so there will be no future conflicts with other plugins.
- Usage is simpler and forgiving, making the plugin easier to use.
- It will never display any annoying flowplayer logos or copyrights over your videos.
- Allows user to display clickable splash screen at the beginning of video (which not only looks good, but improves the performance significantly).
- Allows user to display popup box after the video ends, with any HTML content (clickable links, images, styling, etc.)
Flowplayer playing the video file inside a post.
Usage:
To embed video "example.flv", simply include the following code inside any post or page:
[flowplayer src=example.flv]
src is the only compulsory parameter, specifying the video file. Its value can be either a full URL of the file, or just a filename, if it is located in the /videos/ directory in the root of the web.
Optional parameters:
-
widthandheightspecify the dimensions of played video in pixels. If they are not set, the default size is 320x240.Example
flowplayer src=example.flv, width=640, height=480 -
splashparameter can be used to display a custom splash image before the video is started. Just like in case ofsrcparameter, its value can be either complete URL, or filename of an image located in /videos/ folder.Example
[flowplayer src=example.flv, splash=image.jpg] -
popupparameter can be used to display any HTML code after the video finishes (ideal for advertisment or links to similar videos). Content you want to display must be between single quotes ('').Example
[flowplayer src=example.flv, popup='<p>some HTML content</p>']
Adding three players with various parameters into a post.
Widgets and templates:
You can use the standard Flowplayer shortcode in the default Wordpress Text widgets.
You can also use it in your templates. All you have to do is to use it as a parameter of flowplayer() php function.
Example:
<?php flowplayer('[flowplayer src=example.flv]'); ?>
Please read the installation guide for simple installation instructions.
Download latest version of the plugin here:
fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip.
84 comments on “FV Wordpress Flowplayer: Open Source, Unbranded and Free!”
01
Hello,
it doesnt work for me. it says : error: http: //link.com/videos/<code>test.mp4</code> not found.
But why is <code></code> in there?
02
Hi tunny!
There are two things that may have caused this – either you copied the code from somewhere with redundant <code></code> tags, or something (maybe some other plugin) is messing with your post content. Could you try directly editing your post’s source code and removing <code></code> tags? Let me know what happens, and copy what exactly you have in your post please.
03
I keep getting a “Fatal Error” message when I try to activate the plug in. I have copied the message below.
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/models/flowplayer.php on line 4
Any and all help is appreciated! Thank you in advance!
04
Hello Mike.
It looks like you are using PHP 4 on your server. FV Wordpress Flowplayer plugin unfortunatelly runs only with PHP 5 or higher.
05
First off, Awesome plugin!
Second, I am using the plugin for a site I am developing. I do not like how the splash page “play.png” button is 80px x 80px so I made it 40px x 40px. The problem is that it is now aligning 20px above center. I am assuming that this is because of the actual center is the center of the viewing area and takes into account the control bar. I tried a cheat by crating a png that has 20px of blank space above the “play.png” but that just increased the white border to 40px x 60px and positioned the “play.png” at the bottom of the rectangle. I tried every CSS file you provided and every CSS file I have and cannot get rid of the white border around the png. I played with the CSS of the plugin to adjust positioning but that made a mess. Simplest way is to eliminate that white border. How can I do this?
Thank you for the help!
PS. I switched it back to the 40 px X 40px.
06
Hello Lee!
There are two things that need to be changed outside the stylesheets (you will need to modify /models/flowplayer-frontend.php file), when you want to change the size of play button:
1. “width” and “height” arguments of img element – they are strictly set to 83 because of png transparency hack for IE6, that we are using. you should change that to your prefered size.
2. distance of playbutton from the top of the player is also strictly set in “style” attribute of img element. you will see a piece of PHP code, that calculates vertical middle according to the size of video ($height/2) and then reduces this number by 45 (approximately half of playbuttons height) so that button is positioned cca in the middle. try to change 45 to 20 and tell me if that solves your problem.
PS: thanks, I like that plugin as well ;-)
07
Hi,
After trying a lot of similar plugins, I find that your’s is simply the best: simple yet efficient!
The only thing that bothers me is that I didn’t find a way to get completely rid of the popup when the video finish playing.
I would like it to be as in the settings: just a play again button.
Can you point me in the right direction, please?
Thanks in advance, and forgive my poor English, I’m French…
08
Hi Miso,
It worked perfect! Then I updated the plugin and it reverted it back to the original format. I had to redo it again. Not a big deal, however, just so people know that the setting will be overridden with an update.
You guys are awesome. Thank you! Again, GREAT JOB!
Lee
09
OK, I’m glad it worked and even more pleased you like the plugin that much :-) I could make the plugin check the size of icons automatically, but it would need GD library to be installed and also it would slow things down. So since there will not be many people that need to change their size, I’ll leave it like that for now. Anyway, thank you very much ;-)
10
Anne: First of all, thanks very much! Second, your english is flawless :-)
Now let’s get to the point – the popup was intended to appear every time the video finishes, as an improved replacement of the original “play again” button. However, seeing that you would like to get rid of it, I will add the possibility to turn it off into next version of plugin.
Thank you again for feature request and for your patience.
11
Hi,
Is it possible to change the scaling to ‘fit’ without modifying the source code? I can do that but I don’t like to do it everytime you guy upgrade the player plugin.
Thanks for developing a cool plugin.
Cheers,
Tony.
12
Hi,
I’m having some trouble getting the play to run a video on my churches website. I keep getting this error message -
200,stream not found,[object clip error],clip:
“[clip]“http://www.fbcdublin.org/videos/2009bak2skoolblast.mp4
"I keep trying different things, but can't seem to get it to work.
13
Hi Miso
I apologize for bothering you again but I have another problem that I normally fix with setting the flash wmode and z-index setting. If you look at http://skydivesandiego.com/?page_id=329 and roll over “facilities” on the navbar, the dropdown menu falls behind the flow player. I checked all of the files but cannot find a setting that can rectify this. I also checked Flow players forums, but they all reference the fix as if the actual flash is embedded on the page. Any ideas? Thank you for your help.
Lee
14
Thanks a lot for your answer, Miso. I’m looking forward to the next version of this delightful plugin!
15
how can I add some of the flowplayer plugins? In particular, the one discussed here: http://flowplayer.org/forum/5/14664 to allow you to click ahead in the video?
16
Hello Ricky,
This is the Foliovision version of the Open Source free version of Flowplayer (which is broken source crippleware which is why we built our own version, but that’s a story for another day).
I believe most of these plugins are supposed to work with the pay versions. If you have different information, do let me know.
17
Tony: Where exactly do you want to change the scaling? I think there is a possibility to change the styling of your flowplayers independently of plugin versions by adding some rules to your own stylesheet. Just take a look on our class names and ids and modify whatever you want in your stylesheet.
Johnathan: You should make sure, that the user, under which the webserver is running has the “read” and “execute” permissions for the /videos/ directory. It seems like the player can’t access the video file. Anyway, if that still doesn’t work, try placing the videos elsewhere and specifying absolute URL to them.
Lee: Wmode is already set to “opaque” and there is no problem with drawing HTML code over the player – that’s how popup boxes work (and they even work no your site). There seems to be something special going on with your dropdown menu there. BTW the z-index of popup box is set to 999 and position is “absolute”. Maybe you should try to experiment with placing some other HTML over the players and compare it to your menu, so you can find out which setting makes it not work. Let me know if you find out please. If you don’t there is still a last possibility of moving your videos a little bit lower on the page.
18
Hi Miso,
I just upgraded to the 0.9.14 and show the new option to disable the Popup Box. It works like a charm and it’s exactly what I wanted!
Thank you so much!
19
Hi,
Thanks for this very good plugin !
Is it possible to use FV Wordpress Flowplayer plugin as a widget ?
I’ve to try to use it with php-code-widget plugin but with no success.
20
Hi miso,
Just in the “clip” section like in the following code:
clip: { autoPlay: true, scaling:’fit’,…
It will keep the video from distortion. Instead of stretching the video to fit the div size and lost it’s original aspect ratio (ex. 4:3, 16:9, etc.), it will fill extra space on top/bottom or left/right with background color so a square box would still be a square for example.
Yes you can adjust the div size with css to match any video’s size one by one but it’d be more convenience to have this parameter to keep it looks good for any video. Also we can keep the player screen at the same size so it’s easier to design a website.
Oh and in http://www.star-board.com we don’t use WordPress yet, I’m new to it and still have to learn a lot, perhaps I can learn enough to use it for our 2011 website.
21
Hi Tony. Thanks for clarification, I know what you mean now. You can expect scaling set to “fit” in the next version of the plugin. I will just need to do some testing, etc.
22
Just wanted to say thank you! Works just as described and was dead easy to use :)
23
Hi everyone,
I have a question concerning the splash image… I’ve managed so far to implement a video in my wordpress blog… I used the code
–> [FLOWPLAYER=wp-content/videos/me.flv,500,380]
I now would like to add a splash image and I acutally don’t know what I have to add to the code!
Does someone has a solutions?
Thanks
Quentin
24
Hi Quentin,
I don’t recommend you keep your videos or your photos in wp-content. What happens if you ever want to move to another platform? You’ll be dragging that folder along forever. Better to keep your photos and videos in folders at root. My suggestion: /videos and /images.
Otherwise, reread the documentation above and you will see that splash images are covered with sample code.
25
My apologies…might have posted this elsewhere but did you answer Monpelaud’s question about using plugin as a widget? I too would like to use as a widget and possibly in one of the php templates but not sure how to embed player. Thx for your help.
26
Hi,
I Was just wondering if there is a way to change the default video size settings?instead of 320×240,i want it to be 580×400.Thanks.
27
We just switched from “Wordpress Flowplayer” to your plugin so we can use splash images. Thanks for making this plugin.
We’ve noticed that the Replay & Share buttons get placed below the Flowplayer in Google Chrome.
Also, I think Flowplayer has an ability to use the first frame of the movie as a splash image. Maybe you could add support for that if you get bored.
28
Jerry: Of course it is possible, but you will need to modify the source code of the plugin (change the values on lines 28 and 29 of the /models/flowplayer-frontend.php file). This will however mean, that you will have to edit this again every time you update the plugin to a new version.
Stefan Holt, Monpelaud: Since we are trying to keep the plugin as lighweight and easy-to-use as possible, we haven’t considered such possibility yet. According to this philosophy, we encourage users to play videos in the simplest manner possible – by including short [flowplayer ...] code in their posts.
29
Pablos: Thanks for swithing to our plugin, and thanks for the report! I’ll do some more testing with Chrome as soon as I can and fix the problem. As for using the first frame as a splash – I must admit I didn’t even know about that. I will also take a look at this.
30
Can you change the buffer length on this? Great plugin but it still took 24 sec to load my 5 min video. Viddler only took 4 sec. I hosted the video on hostgator.
31
Hi Michal,
I would like there to be an option in FV Wordpress Flowplayer to be able to use Widgets. Let’s do something simple so that it is possible to add videos to the sidebar easily.
Format should be self-contained widget where you just enter the same syntax as we use for including FV Flowplayer inside posts. Plus an option for captions.
Keep in mind that the widget should be a multiple instances widget (i.e. someone can put 3 or 4 videos into their sidebar). But each instance will only display a single video. Ideally the video name would go into the widget title (so that’s easy to see which is which) but that’s just for bonus points.
Thanks.
32
I installed your plugin today and have an issue getting the video to play. I can hear the audio just fine, and once the player buffers all the data I can scroll through the audio, but I get nothing but a white screen for video.
any ideas ? this is an mp4, created with Apple IMovie.
33
Hmm, now I uploaded a large version of this file as a H264 format filename.mov instead of mp4.
I can see the video just fine on this version, but I get no audio.
mp4 -> audio but no video
mov -> video but no audio
34
Hi Dave,
This is an .flv player. Apparently there is some mp4 playing capability built-in but our versions is specifically aimed at flash videos. I recommend you use .flv’s as well, as over 90% of web surfers have flash installed. I know the technical arguments about superiority of mp4’s and agree with them but for just a standard embedded video, flv is the answer.
If you want to offer MP4’s, I recommend that you make them a link to download underneath the flv.
35
Having trouble getting the flv video to play. Shows only a black rectangle where it should load. I’m thinking maybe there is a conflict with another plugin… Do you know of any existing plugin conflicts? Also saw something above about “
” redundancy:My code:
[flowplayer src=test2.flv width=752 height=246]
Here is the code WordPress spits out:
[flowplayer src=test2.flv width=752 height=246]36
EDIT:
code and end code tags didn’t show up in the “WordPress spits out” source code.
37
Forgive me if you have answered this, I did browse through the posted comments first.
How does one use a playlist? I would like the option for several different videos in the same player.
Thanks for an awesome plugin!
Rob
38
Hi,
I’m having some trouble getting the play my external hosted video om AWS servers
[flowplayer src=https://site.s3.amazonaws.com/video/sbihub-into/into.flv]
Get the error msg:
200,stream not found,[object clip error],clip:
“[clip]
I keep trying different things, but can’t seem to get it to work:
- Added the trailing /
- ” and ‘ quotes around reference
Is there different way to call an absolute reference?
thanks!
Erik
39
Hi Erik,
I’m thinking the issue might have to do with the https://
Have you tried using just straight http:// with an external server?
40
Hi Alec … yes I have not tried the absolute url using straight http:// from both internal and external websites. However my need here is to stream off of my AWS server …
the actual error code reads:
200,stream not found,[object clip error],clip:
‘[clip]‘http://sbihub.com/videos/https://subdomain.vidoeloaction.com/clip.flv
"Does this help?
41
Thank you so much for this plug-in.
I’ve been looking for a plug-in like this for ages. I found it through Wordpress when looking for an mp4 player plug-in. It doesn’t show up when I search specifically for “video player”, perhaps you could fix that so others can have the benefit of it.
Will you add a TinyMCE button for it?
Thanks again,
Dion.
42
Wonderful plugin! But of course you already knew that… ;}
Anyhow, I can’t get this to work in a sidebar (Using the arbitrary text or HTML widget) nor inside of a table (Using WP-Table Reloaded). Other plugins shortcode (like Viper Video Quick tags) work inside of those objects.
To ensure I had the short code accurate, I copied the exact shortcode I was using in the sidebar and in the table and placed it on a page and it worked perfectly.
To be clear, what I get when it doesn’t work in the widget or the table is the exact text of the shortcode displayed on the page.
Hope all this makes sense.
Cheers and thanks again!
Rob
43
Hello,
struggling to install a video within my post. Made the video on Windows Movie Maker, converted the file to .flv but WP.org will not allow me to save the file to my WP Media Library, saying it does not meet security guidelines.
I then converted it to MP4 format and only the audio plays but nothing visual, just a white screen. Can you tell me how to link the video to this player without it being in the WP library. Thank you in advance.
44
Where, in the code, is it telling it to center the video? I need the videos to be left aligned, not centered.
45
Never mind, I found it. In flowplayer.css, flowplayer_container class
46
Hello Rob,
the widget support will be added in next release, in the meantime you can do a quick and simple mod to our plugin PHP code to fix it -
Open fv-wordpress-flowplayer/controller/frontend.php file and add a new line bellow line 14 saying:
add_action(‘widget_text’,'flowplayer_content’);
This will allow you to use the default square brackets shortcode in the default Wordpress Text Widget.
I’m sending you the fixed php file on your email.
The problem with WP Table Reloaded requires a better Wordpress Shortcode API support which will be added in next version of our plugin.
Thanks,
M.
47
Martin,
Thank you very much! I’ll be installing it a little later today. Really appreciate the support and an awesome plugin.
Cheers, Rob
48
Martin,
Wanted to get back to you and let you know the update frontend.php you sent me worked PERFECTLY for my widget.
Thank you very, very much for such a good and solid plugin as well as the good technical support!
R/ Rob
49
Hello,
Just wanted to say great plugin… question… could you provide the source code for the modified flowplayer? I wanted to customize it… but I can’t get my compiled version to interact with you wordpress integration layer.
50
GREAT JOB!!!
I am wondering if the plugin supports (or will support) a playlist? Any format is fine but it would make my life a breeze!!!!
51
Hey I’ve been using your plugin for a while on my site and I think it rocks. However I’ve recently had the need to embed my videos on other sites, but lack the knowledge as to how to do that.
After a quick Google search I discovered Flowplayer supports a java script plugin which allows it to generate embed code, but I don’t have a clue as to how to get it to work with your player.
Here is the plugin in question: http://flowplayer.org/demos/plugins/javascript/embed.html
If you could point me in the right direction as to how to solve this I’m sure I could figure the rest out.
Thanks in advance.
-Karl
52
Hello Andrew,
I think you can decompile it following the instruction somewhere on this site: http://flowplayer.org/documentation/developer/development-environment.html
I’m sending our decompiled version to your email address.
Enjoy,
M.
53
Hello…I used the embed code for my widget and it works perfectly…I love flowplayer…But I would like it not to start automatically…how can I change that? I used the embed code from here http://flowplayer.org/demos/plugins/javascript/embed.html
54
Hi. Thanks for this plugin, I love it. I have played with it and gotten it to successfully load in a post. Now I want to add a player to my main index template, above my first featured content.
What code can I use within my main index template to do this. I want a fixed video introduction that will not autostart, with an image overlay. I have all the pieces parts, but I cannot figure out what to code.
55
I really like the idea of this plugin…if I could get it to work. I have had similar errors as listed in the previous comments, but the posted solutions haven’t rendered a solution.
I uploaded .flv videos to a ‘videos’ directory under my public_html on my server. Then I plugged in the file name as stated in the instructions. Then I tried absolute URL’s, still nothing. I checked permissions for that folder, they were set correctly. Then I made a ‘videos’ directory under the root of the website. When I put the code in the first time, it works. Anytime I refresh the page, then the video quits working.
Each attempt mentioned above produces the same error message:
200, Stream not found, [object Clip Error], clip, “[Clip]http://www.woodworkersjourney.com/videos/WWJintro_0002.flv”
I really want to use this plugin. What am I overlooking, or what haven’t I done right? Thanks for the help.
56
Hi Ethan,
No playlist for now, but thanks for the suggestion.
Hi Karl,
Sorry we haven’t worked with that embed script yet. If you do get it to work, we’d be delighted to incorporate it in the FV Open Source version.
Hi Johnny,
Setting your videos to autostart or not is pretty simple. It’s in FV Flowplayer Configuration. It can also be set on a per video basis using an autoplay tag.
Hi Chip,
For the moment our version plays in content and not in templates. If you’d like us to configure your site for you, let us know via the contact form but that’s a paid service.
Hi Everybody,
Roadmap right now is easy embedding inside Widgets and inside templates. If we have $100 donated we’ll do it before New Year’s. Otherwise we are going to have to have a holiday like everybody else and do it sometime in 2010. Donations can be sent via Paypal to payment at foliovision.com. Be sure to mention Flowplayer embedded in your donation!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
57
Thanks for a great plugin! But I have one problem, when adding a splash image for the player window that shows before you click to play the video the actual play button is vertically distorted. I have no idea why. Would you be able to take a look at this? It is the most recent post on my site. Splash images used on pages (and not posts) look just fine, does it have to do with certain custom window sizes?
58
Hi
I’ve setup up your plugin pretty flawlessly, but i’ve got one little problem.
My video is 400×320 and when it’s buffering – there is animated rotating circle icon on black background. Problem is – it’s not centered properlly.
Later if there is any more buffering – the rotating cirlce overlayed on video is centered like it should.
What can cause this behaviour? Please take a look at my site. Thanks for help!
59
Is there anything I can do about the ugliness of the play button when I use splash images? :/
http://bit.ly/7YNrLB
60
@donna
thanks for the pointer to the css file. you answered your own question and mine!
great job on the plug-in, guys.
61
Thanks for your plugin! it works just fine.
I already seen in one comment improvement of frame proportion when you go into fullscreen.
Where exactly i need to insert that scale to fit line?
Thanks in advance.
62
Hi guys, thanks for pointing out the possibilities in the CSS file as I’ve had the problem with oversized play buttons on my website using flowplayer. The problem is strange though, when using flowplayer on pages it looks great, when using it in posts it looks like this http://www.monologues.se/ugly_playbutton.png
I’ve tried to figure out a way to bypass this in the .splash_play_button section of the CSS file but without any luck. Anyone has a solution to make it look as it should?
Big thanks for your support!
63
Hi Michael,
If you say that this problem is specific to posts and does not occur
on pages, have you tried using some different template?
There may be some conflicts in the
CSS.
I tried to go through your style.css myself and found what’s causing the problem:
.single .post .entry-content img {max-width:585px;height:inherit;}
Either remove “height:inherit” from it or add this to flowplayer.css:
img.splash_play_button
{
height: auto !important;
}
Thanks,
M.
64
This looks like a good plugin but I can’t seem to get it to work. All I get is a black rectangle where the video should be. Similiar to what Paul had in previous comments. Does anyone know what this could be?
Thanks,
Warren
65
I downloaded your plugin locally – but videos won’t play. i included full url in the src: [flowplayer src=http://localhost/wp/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/flowplayer/example.flv, width=640, height=280] – but when i view the post – it is just a grey box with no controls. what am i doing wrong?
66
Hello Michael and Warren,
FV Flowplayer calls some javascript form the footer. All Wordpress themes come with footer.php and footer php must be included in any page where you are using FV Flowplayer.
The way you do it is to call <?php wp_footer(); ?> in your theme’s footer.php.
Almost all themes do this out of the box, but if you’ve customised your theme there’s a chance that you might have deleted this call. One of our other programmers did it here. The right way to edit your footer or delete is to change the contents of footer.php.
Thanks,
M.
67
@Martin – Thank you very much for the tip. I can’t believe I left wp_footer out!
68
I love the customizable features of this player, however, all I get to display is a gray/blac box where the video should be. What am I doing wrong?
69
Fantastic plugin, using it to replace my previous one now. Any idea how this appears in RSS feeds? With the splash image or just doesn’t show up at all?
70
Hi Moira,
Make sure you have working footer.php (check earlier comments).
Hi Urban Bohemian,
Thanks for the question about RSS. For the moment, FV Flowplayer shows up, but broken. We will be changing this to not to show up at all. No flash video player can work in most feed readers as they require javascript.
71
Made the change to the footer and now the player is working like a charm! :) Thanks a bunch!
72
200 error stream not found on s3 with godaddy wordprss
tried adding mime types to .htaccess to no avail.
Any ideas where I should look nest?
Here is a link to s3 vid
http://proveitvideos.s3.amazonaws.com/david tutera_Title_01_01(2)(1).flv
73
Hello Anthony,
please try to replace the blank space in the filename with the underscore symbol. Then use a shortcode like this one:
[flowplayer src=http://proveitvideos.s3.amazonaws.com/david_tutera_Title_01_01(2)(1).flv]
Thanks,
M.
74
I can’t this to do a thing.
Seems simple enough, but…
Using HTML view, I put in [flowplayer src=GIS-welcome.mp4]
And when I preview my page, I see [flowplayer src=GIS-welcome.mp4]
No video, no box, no error.
I tried it with an absolute path and also just with the name. Videos are in a videos subdirectory of root. I can access the video if I just use thst url.
I have PHP 5.2.12.
What am I missing?
Cheers!
Toby
75
Hello Toby,
seems like there is some whitespace non-visible character between the
square bracket and the ‘f’ letter. When I copy your code and paste it
into some plain text text field I can see it’s there.
You probably copied the whole code from some website, that might be
the cause for this. So please try to go into the HTML view again and
make sure there is no blank space in ‘[flowplayer’
Thanks,
M.
76
Got it working!
Thanks for pointing out that it was a space before flowplayer.
Couldn’t see it until posted into Notepad.
Thanks!
77
Just a quick question…as I am not nearly as proficient as most people on here this may seem like a very silly question…how do I get my video to loop? Is there a way to make this work with html or in the css or where? Thanks so much!
78
Hey first off, thanks for a great plugin – I’ve been playing with it for a little while now and I’m going to give it a proper go with a project I’ve been working on.
One question I had, more on the feasibility of future functionality more than anything – How easy would it be to add pre-roll content to videos? How about watermarks?
As it is I can hack the videos themselves together to create this functionality, but the ability to add them as site-wide variables would provide some great benefits for managing the content I deliver to my users.
Thanks again for the brilliant work.
79
Hello,
First of all, great work on this plugin, it’s very nice.
Having a bit of a problem with the video in this post: http://www.kbdi.org/news/index.php/2010/02/23/video-grand-junctions-multifaceted-health-care-approach/
Once you click play, the actual video overlay shifts down approx. 60px. Any ideas what’s causing this?
80
I had the same problem with the white space. Now I can see the videos.
Is it possible to insert the code as an embed (like Youtubes i.e.), so someone can copy it and paste in his site and show the video???
Great plugin
Thank you
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How can I obtain an embed code with flowplayer to embed the code in the site?? I mean just like the one you get from youtube i.e. to embed it in another site.
Thank you
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Thanks for all of your comments, questions and suggestions!
Our approach with most of our plugins and specifically with FV Flowplayer is to code something simple to use and robust. We are not eager to add so much functionality that 1. the plugin breaks a lot 2. it is very difficult to use.
We want FV Flowplayer to be the best straightforward unbranded video player on the market. We are not looking to be the most feature rich.
The last good version of MS Word was 5.1. Published in 1991. Everything since then has just made Word buggier and harder to use.
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I am trying to use your FV Player outside of wordpress – since there doesn’t seem to be another good unbranded version of flowplayer (I wonder why, too). I can make it work, but run into trouble with RTMP.
Do you have an updated version based on the 3.1.5 flowplayer (or even any newer version?). I have got the RTMP plugin working and it works just with the latest free version of Flowplayer, but I can’t make it work with your improved unbranded version (which from the docs is based on 3.1.3?).
Here’s my code: http://pastie.org/862936
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Hello Ryan,
We will eventually update our core. FV Flowplayer is not designed to be on the bleeding edge, but rather to be a solid free solution without branding to cover .flv and h.264 files.
That said, when we update core, we’ll definitely look at including your code. If you are able to get it working in the meantime with our plugin, if you share the working code with us, we will integrate it into the main trunk of the code so that other people can benefit from your work with RTMP.
Unfortunately we are not in a position to debug this for you now.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
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