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.
Provides an easy to use insert Flowplayer button
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 (20100815 current version does display a minimal amount of branding: fortunately Flowplayer Ltd. no longer superimposes their logo on playing version of plugin).
- 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.)
- Allows user to upload videos through WP Media Library

Flowplayer playing the video file inside a post.

Usage

Make sure to read our FV Wordpress Flowplayer User Guide.

FV Wordpress Flowplayer & WP 3.0

The plugin has been tested with WP 3.0 from the version 1.0.2.

Older stable version 0.9.18 runs under WP 3.0 as well.

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]'); ?>

Installation

Please read the installation guide for simple installation instructions.

Download latest version (1.1) of the plugin here:
fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip.

Download version 1.0.6 (without branding) of the plugin here:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.1.0.6.zip.

200 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?

tunny at September 27th, 2009 around 5:12 am
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.

miso at September 28th, 2009 around 7:15 am
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!

Mike Blake at September 29th, 2009 around 10:36 am
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.

miso at September 30th, 2009 around 3:58 am
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.

Lee at October 1st, 2009 around 7:01 pm
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 ;-)

miso at October 3rd, 2009 around 12:05 pm
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…

Anne at October 6th, 2009 around 8:52 am
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

Lee at October 6th, 2009 around 9:28 am
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 ;-)

miso at October 6th, 2009 around 12:17 pm
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.

miso at October 6th, 2009 around 12:28 pm
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.

Tony at October 7th, 2009 around 3:58 am
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.

Jonathan at October 7th, 2009 around 8:40 pm
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

Lee at October 7th, 2009 around 10:26 pm
14

Thanks a lot for your answer, Miso. I’m looking forward to the next version of this delightful plugin!

Anne at October 8th, 2009 around 12:10 am
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?

ricky at October 8th, 2009 around 11:14 am
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.

alec at October 8th, 2009 around 11:23 am
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.

miso at October 9th, 2009 around 5:19 am
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!

Anne at October 9th, 2009 around 8:03 am
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.

Monpelaud at October 10th, 2009 around 6:52 am
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.

Tony at October 11th, 2009 around 8:09 pm
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.

miso at October 12th, 2009 around 7:24 am
22

Just wanted to say thank you! Works just as described and was dead easy to use :)

Sarah at October 17th, 2009 around 12:55 am
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

quentin at October 22nd, 2009 around 4:03 am
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.

alec at October 22nd, 2009 around 4:23 am
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.

Stefan Holt at October 22nd, 2009 around 7:45 am
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.

Jerry at October 26th, 2009 around 1:24 pm
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.

Pablos at October 27th, 2009 around 1:13 pm
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.

miso at October 27th, 2009 around 6:48 pm
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.

miso at October 27th, 2009 around 6:57 pm
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.

Dr. Dan "RockStar" Life-Style Coach at October 27th, 2009 around 10:59 pm
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.

alec at October 28th, 2009 around 7:21 am
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.

Dave at October 28th, 2009 around 8:35 am
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

Dave at October 28th, 2009 around 9:33 am
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.

alec at October 28th, 2009 around 10:56 am
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]

Paul at October 29th, 2009 around 11:06 am
36

EDIT:
code and end code tags didn’t show up in the “WordPress spits out” source code.

Paul at October 29th, 2009 around 12:07 pm
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

Robert Edwards at October 31st, 2009 around 11:00 am
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

Erik at November 4th, 2009 around 7:29 am
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?

alec at November 4th, 2009 around 7:34 am
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?

Erik at November 5th, 2009 around 6:35 pm
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.

Dion de Ville at November 6th, 2009 around 4:29 am
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

Robert Edwards at November 7th, 2009 around 6:12 pm
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.

Bryan at November 8th, 2009 around 12:35 pm
44

Where, in the code, is it telling it to center the video? I need the videos to be left aligned, not centered.

donna at November 11th, 2009 around 1:18 pm
45

Never mind, I found it. In flowplayer.css, flowplayer_container class

donna at November 11th, 2009 around 1:23 pm
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.

Martin at November 13th, 2009 around 6:49 am
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

Robert Edwards at November 13th, 2009 around 6:55 am
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

Robert Edwards at November 19th, 2009 around 9:26 pm
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.

Andrew at December 1st, 2009 around 3:22 pm
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!!!!

Ethan at December 3rd, 2009 around 10:20 am
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

Karl at December 3rd, 2009 around 10:15 pm
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.

Martin at December 4th, 2009 around 1:43 am
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

Johnny at December 13th, 2009 around 9:23 pm
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.

Chip at December 16th, 2009 around 12:13 pm
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.

Adam King at December 17th, 2009 around 9:30 am
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!

alec at December 18th, 2009 around 4:25 pm
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?

Michael at December 24th, 2009 around 4:58 pm
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!

filip at December 26th, 2009 around 4:04 pm
59

Is there anything I can do about the ugliness of the play button when I use splash images? :/

http://bit.ly/7YNrLB

Josh at December 27th, 2009 around 7:25 pm
60

@donna

thanks for the pointer to the css file. you answered your own question and mine!

great job on the plug-in, guys.

joe at December 30th, 2009 around 2:59 pm
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.

maxim at January 9th, 2010 around 6:20 pm
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!

Michael at January 11th, 2010 around 7:29 am
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.

Martin at January 12th, 2010 around 9:45 am
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

Warren McNeil at January 16th, 2010 around 4:43 pm
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?

Michael Soriano at January 16th, 2010 around 10:01 pm
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.

Martin at January 18th, 2010 around 6:01 am
67

@Martin – Thank you very much for the tip. I can’t believe I left wp_footer out!

Michael Soriano at January 31st, 2010 around 2:10 pm
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?

Moira at February 3rd, 2010 around 6:21 am
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?

urban bohemian at February 3rd, 2010 around 9:30 am
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.

alec at February 3rd, 2010 around 9:59 am
71

Made the change to the footer and now the player is working like a charm! :) Thanks a bunch!

Moira at February 3rd, 2010 around 12:44 pm
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%20tutera_Title_01_01(2)(1).flv

Anthony at February 11th, 2010 around 7:05 am
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.

Martin at February 15th, 2010 around 2:48 am
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

Toby at February 15th, 2010 around 5:28 pm
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.

Martin at February 16th, 2010 around 4:42 am
76

Got it working!

Thanks for pointing out that it was a space before flowplayer.

Couldn’t see it until posted into Notepad.

Thanks!

Toby at February 16th, 2010 around 8:19 am
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!

Bruce Backman at February 26th, 2010 around 1:27 pm
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.

Superwicked at February 27th, 2010 around 5:48 am
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?

Drew at February 28th, 2010 around 11:20 pm
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

Inigo at March 1st, 2010 around 4:08 am
81

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

Inigo at March 1st, 2010 around 10:16 am
82

Thanks for all of your comments, questions and suggestions!
- Bruce, video looping isn’t what we’re looking for (but if somebody adds it cleverly, we’ll add it to our code but it’s not something we’ll work on ourselves).
- Preroll content: not on our radar.
- Watermarking: watermarking should be done at the flv conversion level not in the player.
- Per video autoplay can be changed as far as I know in the shortcodes: just tell them that and add it to the documentation.
- For embed codes, yes that is a nice idea Inigo and shouldn’t be too tough.
- Drew, it’s probably just a CSS conflict. Check for duplicate classes.
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.
alec at March 2nd, 2010 around 7:07 pm
83

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

Ryan at March 10th, 2010 around 3:41 am
84

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!

alec at March 10th, 2010 around 9:14 pm
85

Ok new question. Is there anyway to change the grey screen that pops up at the end asking the viewer if they would like to replay or send the video to someone else? I would like it to either just go to black, or back to the assigned Thumbnail. Help is appreciated. Thanks!

Jason Benjamin at March 16th, 2010 around 5:42 pm
86

How to make this plugin WPMU compatible?

Reezo at March 21st, 2010 around 1:58 am
87

Hi Reezo,

just copy the plugin into wp-content/plugins and then activate it on each blog where you want to use it.

Or are you looking for a way how to use it in mu-plugins directory?

Thanks,
M.

Martin at March 22nd, 2010 around 2:51 am
88

I got the video player to work great. But I am using mp4 videos. The end users in my class will run the videos – may stop them in between and then want to rerun them.
When I go to rerun the video it has to completely reload up and takes forever. Customers will never wait that long. I am using Sony Vegas to encode my videos to MP4 and I read that this software doesn’t allow for fast start so they have to download again. Do you know how to fix this?

Jean at March 23rd, 2010 around 1:35 pm
89

Hello Jean,

I had the exactly the same problem – my mp4 wasn’t buffering quickly enough.

But I was able to open it in Quick Time Pro and turn on Cache (hint) for both Video and Sound Track and that solved my problem: http://foliovision.com/drop/webwork/it/quick-time-pro-cache-hint.png

I don’t know about Sony Vegas, but maybe that’s the word you have to search for.

Thanks,
M.

Martin at March 25th, 2010 around 7:17 am
90

Hello Jean,

you can use MP4 FastStart, a free software to convert your mp4 files so they can stream.
http://www.datagoround.com/lab/

Inigo at March 25th, 2010 around 7:50 am
91

Does this plugin support Amazon S3’s authenticated content? If so where can I place the keys Amazon is expecting?

See this link for example:
http://72.9.251.146/~spinhead/code/secure_s3.php

Patrick at March 25th, 2010 around 12:51 pm
92

Hi Patrick,

We’d like to support Amazon’s hosting services so we’ll look into it.

Thanks for the suggestion!

alec at March 25th, 2010 around 3:09 pm
93

Hi,
Just wanted to say thanks to Inigo and Martin. I ended up rendering my videos to .mov format and then from Quicktime Pro I exported them into mp4 and they work great! Thanks so much
Jean

Jean at March 25th, 2010 around 9:26 pm
94

Patrick,

I am using this plug in with Amazon hosting. All you have to do is copy your url to the clipboard and then paste it into the url field on the player. It works great.
Jean

Jean at March 25th, 2010 around 9:29 pm
95

Hello Jason,

just disable the “Popup box”: http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/configuration

Martin at March 26th, 2010 around 1:07 am
96

Jean,

are you authenticating your connection into Amazon or did you have to set your Amazon permissions so that everyone could see the file?

Patrick at March 26th, 2010 around 4:28 am
97

Patrick,
I am changing my permissions so everyone can see. But no matter what player you have you have to do this to even get it on your site.

I will be setting up sales videos so of course I want them to be able to see them and then I have them on a training site I am setting up now. But on this site it will be password protected so again works for me.

Jean at March 26th, 2010 around 8:05 am
98

Typically this -IS- the case…. I am entering into a very competitive market though and do not wish to set permissions on my video files so that the world can see them. :) Having the ability in the plugin to authenticate in order to view the video would be AWESOME!

Patrick at March 26th, 2010 around 8:16 am
99

Patrick,

In word press you can set up your post so that they have to enter a password to see the page. This might help.
And I am going to use a membership plug in so that people have to sign in as well and I can have my content released on a basis that I choose…ie weekly or as I move members to a new level.
Just some other ideas until you get what you want.

Jean at March 26th, 2010 around 9:40 am
100

I’m in design mode right now so fortunately I do not HAVE to have a solution in place for a week or so… I am hoping these guys can just “whip” something together. :) It always amazes me what codies can make happen! As you can see we are not quite there yet. –> http://plramsey.com but it’s right around the corner!

Patrick at March 26th, 2010 around 12:06 pm
101

hi there. A phenomenal plugin. thank you so much.

I’m wondering if there is a way to make the blog text wrap around the video when the video is smaller than the overall body width of the blog.

Is this a style sheet issue?

T.rex at April 6th, 2010 around 10:28 am
102

Hi T. Rex,

You should be able to wrap the player with CSS. Let us know how it goes.

We prefer to center videos inside an h5 ourselves and have no issues so doing.

alec at April 6th, 2010 around 3:49 pm
103

To anyone else who’s having the problem where the drop down menu is appearing behind the video player…

I’ve just spent 12 hours trying to fix it, fortunately the solution is annoyingly simple. Open the flowplayer javascript file i.e. flowplayer-3.1.0.min.js and add the following:

{m+=’ param name=”wmode” value=”opaque” ‘}

after the first ; following the opening object tag. It’s tricky to find, but once you do paste it in, save it and it should work in all browsers (tested in IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari). If you don’t add it right after the object tag, it won’t work in all browsers.

I hope this saves someone else 12 hours of their life.

Paul at April 13th, 2010 around 4:42 pm
104

Hello Paul,

thanks for sharing, this is already fixed in our plugin. On the other hand, we use a little bit older version of Flowplayer. So will look out for it when we upgrade to some newer version.

The other way how to include this parameter is to pass it through the loading JS:

flowplayer( "{element_id}", {src: "{video path}", wmode: 'opaque'} ...

Thanks,
M.

Martin at April 14th, 2010 around 6:29 am
105

Any plans for offering an upload feature in the plugin so I don’t have to separately upload the videos?

Kermit Woodall at April 16th, 2010 around 3:15 pm
106

[...] (a simple transfer into Wordpress using a template to make updating content easier), I used FV Wordpress Flowplayer, but like all the plugins, and all the other players I’ve seen, there was little or no [...]

things with bits » Customised Flowplayer in Wordpress at April 18th, 2010 around 7:45 am
107

Hello — I’m currently trying to design my campaign site and have turned to Flowplayer due to the fact that sites such as YouTube are filtered at school; unfortunately I’ve run into some trouble when trying to embed the player within a post. I was hoping somebody here could offer some insight into this terribly annoying problem: http://richardforcahs.com/beta.php/blog/entry/hello-world/

Thank you, all!

Richard

Richard Escobedo at April 18th, 2010 around 6:51 pm
108

Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. You are a gift from above brother. For 12 months I’ve been looking for a plugin that is everything yours is.

Brilliant.

You’re a genius.

You rock.

I’m going to celebrate!

Graeme at April 19th, 2010 around 10:43 pm
109

Thanks for the kinds words, Graeme! Much appreciated.

We continue to develop FV Flowplayer actively and are keen to incorporate any additions which would make customisation easier. Keep in touch, developers.

alec at April 20th, 2010 around 8:14 am
110

Hi Kermit,

We will add upload at some point, but the main issue was making it easy to include already uploaded videos which we have done with the latest version with a GUI interface for including the short code. For large uploads (i.e. most videos), you can’t beat ftp.

alec at April 20th, 2010 around 8:34 am
111

Hey guys, any luck with the Amazon authenticated content? Do you think it is something even on the road map? thanks !

Patrick at April 20th, 2010 around 9:06 am
112

I think the easiest thing you could do would be to simply add a call to the media upload function so it would be possible to upload with you having to code it from scratch.

Kermit at April 20th, 2010 around 10:49 am
113

I know FTP is best but I don’t want to expose my FTP info to all my authors on my blog. Right now it’s a two-step process to upload video then copy the URL over to your plugin for them.

Thanks for a great plugin regardless!

Kermit Woodall

Kermit Woodall at April 20th, 2010 around 7:47 pm
114

Hi Kermit,

You could create a second ftp user with access only to your video uploads folder.

Just a suggestion.

Unless your videos are quite small (20 to 30 MB max), an http uploader will create as many issues as it will solve.

PS. We were already looking at tying into the WP built in upload routine for the video uploader. Great minds think alike.

alec at April 21st, 2010 around 2:59 pm
115

Hi Patrick,

We are very keen to include the Amazon option. We’re really busy and don’t have an Amazon authenticated content account, but if anyone has built the basics, we’d be happy to incorporate the code and dress it up.

Thanks.

alec at April 21st, 2010 around 3:03 pm
116

Thanks for the suggestion but it wouldn’t work for the people here. Using WordPress is pretty edgy stuff for them. FTP would be way too much for them to handle.

Kermit Woodall

Kermit Woodall at April 21st, 2010 around 3:07 pm
117

Hi Kermit,

If these people would have trouble using an ftp client as you say, I think they will have some issues with preparing and uploading video as well.

I’m not sure you’d want to give them access to your video directory either with an http client.

You need more than a file uploader. You need an uploader and converter like the one built into YouTube. That, alas, we won’t be able to build into FV Flowplayer any time soon.

alec at April 21st, 2010 around 5:02 pm
118

Hi guys

Plugin is working beautifully. I’ve just switched from using the ezS3 players with the video files hosted on Amazon (which was lightning quick). Now, with the video files hosted on my server (Hostgator) I’m finding the FV Flowplayer videos stop every 10 seconds or so to buffer. Any tips on speeding up the delivery?

Thanks
Graeme

Graeme at April 22nd, 2010 around 10:26 pm
119

Hey Alec,

drop me an email and I will forward any pertinent information to you…..

I can add soem small test videos as well….

Patrick at April 23rd, 2010 around 6:33 am
120

Hi Patrick,

We’re looking at the Amazon S3 issue.

thanks,
Zdenka

zdenka at April 23rd, 2010 around 7:37 am
121

Hi Graeme,

it is difficult to say what is causing the stops without seeing it. As you said you switched from Amazon S3 to other hosting, have you tried some other players with this hosting? If yes, are they buffering quickly enough?

One of the reasons might be that your actual hosting isn’t so fast. How long/big are the videos you are using? What is their format?

Also, eZs3 is, as it seems to me, paid service, and therefore it is probably highly optimized to work with videos stored at Amazon S3.

Zdenka

zdenka at April 23rd, 2010 around 7:40 am
122

Hi Graeme,

Zdenka is right. Budget hosts like Hostgator really clamp down on maximum download speeds for large files (like video). Especially to prevent users from using their hosting for things like video hosting.

Here’s some tips on how to choose hosting.

alec at April 23rd, 2010 around 8:41 pm
123

Hi, Alec -

We’re trying to solve the problem of Apple not supporting Flash, because we have over 200 swf cartoons. As a test, I installed your plugin and converted a SWF cartoon to MOV. It plays beautifully on our site – check out the home page – but my iPhone says I need Flash to see it. Is your plugin using Flash? Any way around this?

Bruce at April 30th, 2010 around 8:32 am
124

Hi Bruce,

Adding HTML 5 is an interesting notion. We will work on making HTML 5 the preference with Flash kicking in when HTML 5 won’t work.

Not quite sure about the technical obstacles to making this happen, but it’s a priority for us as we prefer non-flash video ourselves. We run Macs and Adobe Flash performance and instability has been a constant disappointment for the last four years.

alec at April 30th, 2010 around 12:31 pm
125

Hi guys

My players are contracting by a few pixels every time I mouse over them in the browser (Firefox + Safari). This is causing the whole page to shift by those couple of pixels making the whole page flicker.

Any fix? Thanks again for a great piece of software!

Graeme at May 2nd, 2010 around 7:45 pm
126

Hello Graeme,

please take a look at the third question in our FV WP Flowplayer FAQ:

http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/faq

Thanks,
M.

Martin at May 2nd, 2010 around 11:54 pm
127

Hello
This player seems very good, but is there a scaling issue when it is displayed in full screen mode? It seems to be extending that makes the people appear more narrow.

Also, do I need to have the files encoded by a third party service or does your player encode the files?

I checked a few samples and the files seemed to take a long time to load,

thanks!

Carl at May 11th, 2010 around 3:16 pm
128

Hello Carl,

yes, you are right about the issue with full screen. The problem is that the full screen mode literally switches the video into full screen. Therefore if the aspect ratio of your screen is different than the aspect ratio of the video, the video will be stretched in some way. We will see if we can do something about this.

You have to upload files in formats FLV, H.264, or MP4, in order to use FV Flowplayer. If your files are in another format you need to convert them locally.

The loading speed depends on download speed provided by hosting, and also on how are the videos optimized for streaming – this may significantly improve the loading speed (already mentioned here http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer#comment-32133)

Thanks for your comments!
Zdenka

zdenka at May 13th, 2010 around 5:20 am
129

THIS IS AMAZING! Funny part is that I see several people i know including a few of my clients using this LOL

If you guys ever need any BETA testing / promotion reach out to me.

Still trying to figure out how to make the video show up on the left vs the center etc,

but overall this is fantastic!

Darren Scott Monroe at June 5th, 2010 around 1:49 am
130

Hi, Thnak you very much for this plugin. I too would need to remove the “Play again button” – is there an update coming soon?

Gerald at June 6th, 2010 around 4:49 am
131

Thank you, thank you and another!

I have played around with flow player for a year or so and have always returned to youtube… Sure am glad I finally found your site / plug.

Appreciate the time you have devoted to helping us.

Terry

Terry at June 6th, 2010 around 7:28 pm
132

Hi,

I have installed the plugin and activated. It installed without errors.

When viewing the options in the plugin area, the example video does not show up. Says it is not found?

Have verified the example video is uploaded?

Get the same message on a test post. Hosting on Hostgator. Any ideas how to fix this problem?

Thanks,

Terry

Terry at June 7th, 2010 around 5:20 am
133

Alec,
Re-reading your comment n°115, I have a AWS account, I would be more than glad to help you if needed. Your point on comment n°124 (html 5) sounds promising. Do not hesitate to contact me if you need to access my AWS account for test purpose. Eric, isn’t it a CHMOD problem on your file? has to be 755.

Gerald at June 10th, 2010 around 7:18 am
134

Anne,
On the file models/flowplayer-frontend.php, line 106, I add “onFinish: function(){ this.getPlugin(“play”).hide(); }”

It looks like:
canvas: { backgroundColor:\”.$this->conf['canvas'].’\’
}, onFinish: function(){ this.getPlugin(“play”).hide(); }
});

I hope this is correct- on my side, it works perfectly.

Gerald at June 10th, 2010 around 7:23 am
135

Hi Gerald,

That’s very kind of you and thanks for sending that tip to Anne.

Zdenka will be in touch next week about AWS.

We’ve done a major update with video upload and file browsing which is just going through its last beta testing and should be released next week.

Once that’s out the door we can start looking at HTML 5 options. YouTube is rolling out new (better) code for its HTML 5 player every week it seems so this is an area in heavy turbulence for the moment.

alec at June 10th, 2010 around 7:31 am
136

[...] is an x.264 video, shown here initially with a Flash-only player (FV Wordpress Flowplayer). The video file is served by Amazon’s CloudFront CDN, which is trivial to sign up for [...]

SaaS: The Business Model – Video - Kyle Cordes at June 10th, 2010 around 10:50 am
137

Hi. Im having some compatability issues which I hope you may be able to help with. Im using you FV Flowplayer plugin, which I really like, but found there was an issue with passing the video code thru to facebook when using Simple Facebook Connect. Ive made posts in the main wordpress plugins support forum and talked with the SFC author, but he needs some assistence from you to correct this problem. Could you please take a look at this link and offer some solution?

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/403912?replies=4
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/403628

Thanks for your help and the very nice plugin.

kevan at June 12th, 2010 around 4:21 am
138

Hi Kevan,

We will definitely register our shortcodes if there is an accepted practice for that (looking into that now). We certainly do not want our code to be compared to NextGenGallery ever again.

Thanks for your kind words.

alec at June 12th, 2010 around 4:24 am
139

If you need any advice on this, feel free to email me. :)

Otto at June 12th, 2010 around 4:03 pm
140

I appreciate the reply Alec and look forward to getting this situation taken care of. The person who does the Facebook plugin has expressed that you can contact him anytime to collaborate on the solution. Please see Otto42 reply in the thread on WP Forums.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/403912

Thanks, please keep me posted on progress. :)

Kevan at June 13th, 2010 around 2:47 pm
141

Hi guys

Am using your plugin to play over 100 videos on our membership site. Working like a charm. Just one thing: when the videos buffer for a few seconds at the beginning, the downloading graphic (the turning white line) is not in the centre of the video, it’s off to the left and too high.

Can this be fixed? Thanks again!

Graeme at June 22nd, 2010 around 10:55 pm
142

Hi Graeme,

yes you’re right, the spinning circle is a bit off the center. We will look at it, thanks a lot for your comment.

Zdenka

zdenka at June 25th, 2010 around 2:27 am
143

I just updated to FV Wordpress Flowplayer 1.0 and now only 1 of my videos work. I’m getting a “Clip Error Stream not found” message. Plus on the 1 video that does work there are now white bars at the top of the video.

Peter

Peter at July 2nd, 2010 around 10:16 am
144

Hey guys, just updated to new version 1.0 through my dashboard and it bombed the entire site. I had no page except the background. Everything gone. Blank. Nada.

Reinstalled previous version – no problems.

PS – I am running WP 3.0

Graeme at July 2nd, 2010 around 7:01 pm
145

Hi Guys,

There seems to be some issues with the latest Flowplayer we released yesterday on Wordpress 3.0.

This release does include the much requested video uploader integration but it’s better not to upgrade now if you are running Wordpress 3.0.

We will run down the issues ASAP but as we are into the long weekend now a corrected version may not be available until Tuesday or Wednesday.

Thanks!

alec at July 3rd, 2010 around 4:10 am
146

It looks like the comma at the end of the src tag is included with the name of the source file. You can work around this by adding a space before the comma:

[flowplayer src=mpp.mov , width=320, height=240]

Ralph at July 3rd, 2010 around 8:57 am
147

The box around the video is too large because there is an error in the html. There is a comma added between the width and “px”.

For example, the contents of the “a” tag is:

id=”wpfp_5913579757afcd08963d211cf2f” style=”width:640,px; height:360px;” class=”flowplayer_container”

Ralph at July 3rd, 2010 around 9:00 am
148

Hi everybody,

we did a quick bug release to fix the problem with clip stream error, and the white stripes appearing around the videos.
Thanks for all your comments, and big thanks to Ralph for helping us to identify the problem – wp shortcodes api had problems with parsing the commas in the shortcodes.

Zdenka

zdenka at July 3rd, 2010 around 11:41 am
149

Wanted to show off to your fans how easy it was to use the function to make this player dynamic.
Here each game has it’s video pulled dynamically using WP meta data(custom fields) created from my import.
http://www.homecomputergames.com/game-downloads/
EZ as pie.

flowplayer(‘[flowplayer src='.$game_video.' splash='.$game_image.']‘);

With over 1500 games to set up You saved me a lot of work!
Look for some love in your PayPal.
Thanks!
Ken

Ken at July 6th, 2010 around 4:24 am
150

Thanks for the tip, Ken!

Good use of the FV Flowplayer. We code for simplicity, reliability and flexibility.

And thank you for the donation.

alec at July 6th, 2010 around 6:43 am
151

After upgrading to WordPress 3 I had to switch from “word-press-flow-player” to your “fv-wordpress-flowplayer” plugin for my blog: http://www.embracelifephoto.com/blog2

Today I saw that an upgrade was available for your plugin and I ran it. Unfortunately, the videos no longer responded to clicking the play button, so I had to roll back to the pre-update version.

No biggie, but just a heads-up. I love to stay current, though, and would be curious if you could figure out why that happened. I use several other plugins including:
- AJAXed Wordpress
- Akismet
- FD Feedburner Plugin
- Google XML Sitemaps
- HeadSpace2
- WPBook

Maybe one of them conflicts?

Embrace Life at July 6th, 2010 around 8:40 pm
152

After upgrade yesterday, the plugin don’t work.
I had to change the plugin.

We are running WP 3.0.

Greetings
Valentin

Valentin Yonte at July 7th, 2010 around 8:41 am
153

Thanks for your info everybody on Wordpress 3.0.

We are working on the version for Wordpress 3.0 now. Before you jump on brand new OS, think before you leap though. Early adopters often get burned.

alec at July 7th, 2010 around 10:35 am
154

It does seem that the new version of FV WPFP has a javascript error that is stopping the usage. At least that is the error I am getting. Is there somewhere to get the older version back? error(unterminated string constant)

Ken at July 7th, 2010 around 2:10 pm
155

Older versions of FV Flowplayer can be downloaded here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/download/

I believe version 0.9.18 works (without built-in uploader) with Wordpress 3.0.

Wordpress 3 compatibility is coming to the latest version as well. It’s just that we have added a lot of features recently (video upload, automated redirects) which require additional troubleshooting on Wordpress 3.0.

Thank you to Klaus and Kermit for the support for the new features!

If you don’t need the new features, the older versions work well on Wordpress 3.

alec at July 7th, 2010 around 9:08 pm
156

There is a new release of FV Wordpress Flowplayer available. We also checked the compatibility with WP3.0
We fixed the issues from the last release, the not responding play button, borders around videos and the streaming errors.

Please make sure that the wpfp.conf file has the writing permissions even after the upgrade.

Today we also experienced some problems when we were upgrading the plugin through Wordress – not all files were downloaded correctly. Please try to download the zip file directly from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/ and uploading it through ftp in case the plugin does not work after upgrade.

Zdenka

zdenka at July 8th, 2010 around 5:42 am
157

Still using 2.9.2 but upgraded to latest Fv version. No working problems with player but a strange behavior is that all comma’s in content of all articles are stripped out.

You may want to have a look at it.

Tommylee at July 11th, 2010 around 6:26 pm
158

The recent update of Flowplayer conflicts with the Store Locator plugin and renders Store Locator unable to display its map. The just previous version of Flowplayer ran fine under WP 3.0 and didn’t lock up the Store Locator plugin.

Version 0.9.18 is the one that works with 3.0 and doesn’t conflict with Store Locator.
Also with FlowPlayer 1.03 and 1.02 all the commas disappeared from the content of pages and posts on the website. After going back to 0.9.18, things are back to normal.

Marty N. at July 11th, 2010 around 11:51 pm
159

We should have a fix for the comma stripping issue later today.

Thank you to those who submitted bug reports!

alec at July 12th, 2010 around 3:34 am
160

Hello everybody,

we just released another version (1.0.4) which has fixed the problem with comas – we tried to make this plugin compatible with the older shortcodes. If you still have any weird problem after update, you can just turn the “Convert old shortcodes with commas” option off. It’s in the plugin options.

Thanks,
Martin

Martin at July 12th, 2010 around 9:27 am
161

Interested in using Flowplayer for wordpress site, but also trying to get the media into a rss feed.

Has anyone successfully accomplished this?

Tried Blurry Press to create a custom feed, but it is adding it’s own player so every post has 2 players.

Is there special code to make this happen?

Thanks in advance

nat at July 12th, 2010 around 12:06 pm
162

Hi, the commas are back! even with “Convert old shortcodes with commas” ON. Thank you for fixing this issue. Regards, CZ

CZ at July 12th, 2010 around 10:49 pm
163

I’m using the FV Wordpress Flowplayer plugin on an https site and we found a bug in the way permalinks are handled. Could you please verify that our fix is proper and possibly include it in your next build?

We’ve tested in on our servers and it appears to work quite well.

in fv-wordpress-flowplayer/models/flowplayer-frontend.php, we changed the following lines to include the check for the https prefix along with http:

if((strpos($media,’http://’) === false) && (strpos($media,’https://’) === false)) {

and

if ((strpos($args['splash'],’http://’) === false) && (strpos($args['splash'],’https://’) === false))

Hope this helps, and hope in can be included (so I don’t have to edit it after updates). Many thanks for a great plugin.

Cheers,
Deuce

Deuce Cruse at July 12th, 2010 around 11:06 pm
164

Hi Deuce,

Thanks for the code snippet. We’ll include https support going forward if we don’t find any issues with your code (it looks fine).

Hi Everyone,

The latest version does not have the comments issue.

alec at July 13th, 2010 around 12:15 am
165

Hi Everyone,

The commas issue is solved but there appear to be some issues remaining with splash screen. If you are having issues with splash screens, we recommend running without splash screens for a week or so while we investigate and fix the issue. One of our team (the person working on splash screens) is away this week so it will be about a week before we will have the fix ready.

Thanks for your bug reports!

alec at July 13th, 2010 around 4:47 am
166

Possible bug?
I’ve installed the plugin and love the functionality of it. But when I go to edit a page and click on the “Add Media” icon, I can upload files but it will not add a link with the “insert into post” button.
Thanks, Gabe

Gabe at July 13th, 2010 around 7:24 am
167

hi,
first of all: thank you for this excellent plugin!

do you think there might be a html5-version of your plugin in forthcoming versions?

kilian at July 14th, 2010 around 11:53 am
168

Hi Kilian,

We are definitely working on an html 5 version soon.

We’ve recently added video uploading, we’re still working on Wordpress 3 compatibility and stomping out some splash screen bugs. Html 5 is next on the horizon.

alec at July 14th, 2010 around 12:44 pm
169

Hi,

I need to play short videos (3sec) in a loop. I did not find any setting for a loop. Maybe I’m blind ….or does the plugin not support loops?

Thanks in advance for your answer..

Best regards

Karl-Heinz

Karl-Heinz Fink at July 18th, 2010 around 4:19 am
170

Hi Karl,

playing in the loop is currently not supported by our plugin. At the moment we also do not consider adding it. If somebody adds it cleverly, we might use it in the future.
Thanks for you comment,
Zdenka

zdenka at July 20th, 2010 around 12:42 am
171

Hello,

first of all thank you for this great plug-in, now i wanted to know if it possible to complete remove the control bar, I’m not talking about hiding the controls [flowplayer src='example.flv' controlbar='hide']

I want to fully remove the control bar because i don’t want visitors to click it…..

any idea how can i do it

thanks
diane.

Diane Gale at July 22nd, 2010 around 12:53 am
172

Hi,
Thank you for your plugin. I wonder if it’s possible to translate (in french) the text “Play again” at the end of video’s playing. But i don’t find the file to translate ?

Thanks in advance

ag at July 22nd, 2010 around 11:13 am
173

Hello Diane,

thanks for your comment, the shortcode controlbar=’hide’ should work exactly as you wish to – not show the controlbar at all. This feature might not work properly in the widgets, but this will be fixed in the next release.

Zdenka

zdenka at July 23rd, 2010 around 3:49 am
174

Hi Ag,

currently there is only English version of FV Flowplayer available, and there’s no support for other languages. That’s also the reason why you can’t find the language files.
There seems to be no language support for Flowplayer itself, but if somebody implements this cleverly will be happy to add this feature to our plugin as well.
Thanks for your comment,
Zdenka

zdenka at July 23rd, 2010 around 4:01 am
175

I am using the plugin for wordpress along with a woothemes video theme. It asks me for embed code. When I place the [flowplayer…. code it just displays the code on the page. If I just put that code in the HTML tab, it does the same. Any ideas?

Kurt at July 30th, 2010 around 2:31 pm
176

Hello Kurt,

Our short code should be in the body of your article not in theme specific custom fields.

alec at August 1st, 2010 around 3:16 pm
177

Very easy to use, but seems to conflict with Wordpress’ Media Library. When I have the plugin enabled and try to insert media using the little sun icon I am unable to select a file and “insert into post”. I can push the button but nothing happens. Anyone else having this problem or have any advice?
Thanks, Gabe

Gabe at August 5th, 2010 around 2:11 pm
178

Hi Gabe,

thanks for reporting this conflict, we’ll look at it and we’ll let you know.

Zdenka

zdenka at August 5th, 2010 around 11:02 pm
179

Hi

The shortcode isn’t working when I try to embed fv flowplayer in Coda-Slider -2.0 (http://www.ndoherty.biz/2009/10/coda-slider-2/).

Could you tell me what code I should use to embed the fv flowplayer object.

Thanks for your help.

Marcel

Marcel de Bie at August 10th, 2010 around 3:51 pm
180

Works great- finally a player which is very easy to use.

Thank you very much!

PS If you put a PayPal Donate button on your site I’ll donate.

Peter

Peter at August 11th, 2010 around 5:43 am
181

Hi Marcel,

Following code to include the shortcode into a sidebar might help also to you:
echo apply_filters(‘the_content’, ‘[flowplayer src=yourvideo.mp4 width=240 height=320]‘);

Fill the Flowplayer shortcode part according to your needs. The apply filter needs to be called because the flowplayer shortcodes are not parsed outside posts automatically. Also, please do not forget to add the echo at the beginning.

Hope this helps,
Zdenka

zdenka at August 13th, 2010 around 2:06 am
182

Hi

I found a way to use shortcodes in Coda-Slider

Source of solution http://css-tricks.com/snippets/wordpress/shortcode-in-a-template/

Regards

Marcel

Marcel de Bie at August 13th, 2010 around 10:05 pm
183

Thanks for the donation Peter! Your donations are much appreciated. We spend thousands of dollars of manhours every month creating and improving these GPL plugins for your use.

Our donation page is here.

alec at August 15th, 2010 around 4:38 am
184

Am I the only one having problems to get 1.1 working with safari?

Jörn at August 15th, 2010 around 4:48 am
185

Hi Jörn,

Could you share some more details about your issues with 1.1. and Safari? As a temporary measure, I would suggest you download and use FV Flowplayer 1.0.6 which is also listed above.

Sorry for your issues.

alec at August 15th, 2010 around 5:04 am
186

Hi

Could you tell me what CSS I need to edit to remove the grey box that appears around the play button when hovering over the splash image.

Thanks

Marcel

Marcel de Bie at August 15th, 2010 around 4:59 pm
187

Hi Marcel,

thanks for finding the solution for Coda-Slider.

About the CSS, and the grey box appearing when hovering splash image, this is new to us and it does not appear on out test sites. It might be come collision with your existing CSS.
Our CSS styles are located in css/flowplayer.css, and there is some styling for splash images also in models/flowplayer-frontend.php around line 117.

Zdenka

zdenka at August 16th, 2010 around 12:40 am
188

Hi Jörn,

we tested the version 1.1 in Safari on both, PC and Mac, and we haven’t encountered any problems.
You might have a problem with some Javascript preventing Flowplayer from loading. Please check your site for conflicts.
Did the previous version (1.0.6) of Flowplayer work with the same setup?

Thanks,
Zdenka

zdenka at August 16th, 2010 around 3:02 am
189

Zdenka – Thanks for the attempt to help. Unfortunately, I don’t know enough to take it from here. Do you have the php code in full that I should use? Something that starts with

Thanks … Zachary

Zachary at August 16th, 2010 around 9:04 am
190

Hi,

Call me thick if you like but I can’t workout how to get the video to align left. It keeps wanting to center on the page. Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Carol

Carol at August 20th, 2010 around 7:10 am
191

Hi,

Thanks for this very great pluggin.
My configuration:
- WordPress Mu 2.9.2
- FV WordPress Flowplayer v1.0.6

1- I’m using the default WordPress (WPMU 2.9.2) tinyMCE editor and when I click on the “FV WordPress Flowplayer” icon, the dialog window is displayed with this error message:

analyze(realpath($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .$matches[1])); if (isset($ThisFileInfo['error'])) $file_error = “Could not read video details, please fill the width and height manually.”; //getid3_lib::CopyTagsToComments($ThisFileInfo); $file_time = $ThisFileInfo['playtime_string']; // playtime in minutes:seconds, formatted string $file_width = $ThisFileInfo['video']['resolution_x']; $file_height = $ThisFileInfo['video']['resolution_y']; $file_size = $ThisFileInfo['filesize']; $file_size = round($file_size/(1024*1024),2); } ?>

2- I’m using WorpdPress Mu 2.9.2 and I put my videos files in ‘/mysite/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/videos/’ directory.

If I use any one of the following shortcodes, in a post, all works fine:

[flowplayer src='http://myserver.com/mysite/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/videos/myvideo.flv' width=184 height=138]
or
[flowplayer src='/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/videos/myvideo.flv' width=184 height=138]

But if I use the sames shortcodes in the default WordPress Text widgets I always get this error:

200, Stream not found, [object ClipError], clip: ‘[Clip] ‘http://myserver.com/mysite/videos/myvideo.flv”

Note: With “FV WordPress Flowplayer” v0.9.18 I haven’t these errors.

Thanks for your help
Best Regards

Monpelaud at August 20th, 2010 around 11:11 am
192

I just can’t get the plug-in to work. I get a black box where the video should be. I have inserted in index.php and page.php & still can’t get it to work.

Vern at August 20th, 2010 around 9:44 pm
193

Since upgrading to WP 3.1, I’m having trouble with FV Flowplayer. This is the error I keep getting when I hit the Publish Button in a Post:

Fatal error: Class ‘flowplayer_frontend’ not found in /home/content/r/o/n/ronsavelo/html/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/controller/shortcodes.php on line 10

Any advice?
Ron

Ron Savelo at August 21st, 2010 around 10:47 pm
194

Hi Carol,

the centering is set in the css/flowplayer.css file in the flowplayer_container.

If you want to change the alignment of single videos, you can do that by wrapping the whole shortcode into one div with the defined style:
<div style=”float: left”>
[flowplayer ...]
</div>
Hope this helps you,
Zdenka

zdenka at August 23rd, 2010 around 12:56 am
195

Hi Vern,

I’m sorry I did not exactly understood what have you inserted into index.php or page.php
The shortcodes should be placed into the posts.

For the grey box itself, please check whether you footer contains the wp call <?php wp_footer(); ?>

For more information about this please see our FAQ.

Zdenka

zdenka at August 23rd, 2010 around 1:14 am
196

Hi Ron,

We tested the flowplayer in the new WP 3.0.1, and we were not able to replicate the problem you encountered.
Could you please try to reinstall the flowplayer plugin in case some of the files got corrupted during the wordpress update?
Thanks,
Zdenka

zdenka at August 23rd, 2010 around 1:32 am
197

Hi Monpelaud,

thanks for reporting these problems, we’ll fix them in the next release of the plugin.

Zdenka

zdenka at August 23rd, 2010 around 1:48 am
198

Thanks for making this plugin available, +1 for Amazon S3 Support. I read in the readme that you might be considering it.

-Brad

Brad at August 26th, 2010 around 6:01 am
199

Hi. Thanks for this plugin.

There is couple of thing I would like to know;
- Is there any chance you will add the Embed plugins and Streaming plugins/Extensions to this plugin in the future?
- If not, can somebody give a guide on how to add those plugins/extensions to this (FV WordPress Flowplayer)?

Thank yoy in advance.

Reezo at August 28th, 2010 around 7:32 am
200

Hi Reezo,

We have no immediate plans to work on streaming plugins. FV Flowplayer is focused on self-hosted videos. It’s a way to avoid getting a bunch of YouTube branding on your site leading people away from your site somewhere else.

We are more interested in supporting hmtl 5 than true streaming. That said, we will support streaming going forward once somebody adds the code.

Thanks.

alec at August 28th, 2010 around 11:18 am