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
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?
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.
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!
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 ;-)
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.
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.
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?
Hi Zdenka,
I’m having the same black box issue. I’ve checked the footer.php and have the code in place and I’m still getting this issue. I tried re-installing and that didn’t help either… any other suggestion?
Hello, same problem here:
the plugin version 0.9.1.8 used to work fine in wordpress 2.9.2, but after upgrading to 3.0.1 the player SWF shows only a black box without video and control buttons.
EVEN IN THE ADMIN PANEL!
I’ve tried to update the plugin to 1.2, and manually upload the folder by FTP. My theme does contain the wp footer.
The bizarre thing is that it runs smoothly in a local clone wp install, as well as online after a page refresh with Firefox 3.6, but not ANY other browser.
I’ve managed to get the player work by overwriting the swf and the js with the files shipped with the previous version of the plugin, or the player version 3.1.5
Any idea how to make adjustments? I tried replacing the “play.png” with a smaller image in the image folder but the png was automatically scaled larger by the code :-(
thx…
Dave Williams at October 12th, 2010 around 12:01 pm
the size of the play button is fixed at the moment and it is defined in the fv-wordpress-flowplayer/models/flowplayer-frontend.php file on line 118. It is set to 83 pixels, that’s why the smaller picture you uploaded got scaled up.
If you like to make the image smaller, change the size here.
We will consider making this play button more adjustable, thanks for your comment.
No, let me tel you that i m the one who thank you.Flowpayer works only with your plugin in my theme.The other one have some conflict.There was some issues due to a FP update version,not really your fault.You solved my problem in record time.I really appreciate your effort, and that’s why i will look closely to your products. I update the plugin, edit the flowPlayer.js .Everything looks good now.People over FlowPlayer where very helpful too, keeping in mind that they have ton of requests.Zdenka,thanks a lot !
Arthur
Last thing,
is there a way to delete the color controls for the player ? since I want to load a version of the player with a transparent controlbar,but once on line the it will took the opaque command.Also please provide an email for donations via Paypal.Thanks, Arthur
I successfully got the plugin to work for progressive downloads of mp4s, thanks for a simple and easy to use way to embed videos in WordPress.
Is there a way to support rtmp on mp4s with this plugin? My videos are huge and take 3-5 minutes to load, and I’d prefer to 1) make the loading/play faster for users, and 2) not get charged for unnecessary bandwidth. Thanks!
well if you want to tinker with colors and opacity, I can direct you to the php file where the properties are set. It is the /models/flowplayer-frontend.php, and the colors are handled around lines 130-150.
The opacity of the whole control bar is set as opacity: 1.0 at line 148.
Please be careful here, and be sure you backup this file before you change anything.
Thanks for the info on how to adjust the size of play button… having a smaller button really made a difference.
Is there a way to move the button to the top right or left of the play window? I found the code which I believe centers the button ($height/2-45). What could I use to shift the button to a different location?
thx…
Dave Williams at October 20th, 2010 around 6:32 am
Thanks a lot Zdenka,to point me in the right direction.Change was made successfully.:)
I ve a conflict with 2 embeded swf in the home page if embed them in html.
With your plugin, no conflict,but i need to load a different swf,a player without time number due to the size.Is there a way to load an swf, in a place and another in another place with your plugin ?
As always, thanks a lot for you precious help.
Arthur
I use your player in a couple of sites. I was just wondering if a function to get a video excerpt could be added. That would help in using it as a template tag to show custom sized previews in some place other than the main post in custom loops.
If a function could extract the shortcode from the content and only show the player (replacing the height & width with the newly defined ones) in a loop, it’d be a brilliant feature. I have seen a similar function in a plugin called XHTML Video Embed.
It would be very similar to the_thumbnail(); tag, maybe like flowplayer_video_excerpt(140X80); !
Saurabh Shukla at October 21st, 2010 around 3:59 am
you found it right, this piece of code controls the horizontal position of the play button, try using for example 0 instead. See our FAQ for more info.
Thanks Zdenka,Yes I already insert flowplayer in post and sidebar thanks to your plugin.
The one in the side bar need to load another swf, not the same as the one in the post.(ie,post load 3.2.5.swf,sidebar load 3.2.4.swf)Do you see a possible way for this?(this is due to the fact that the swf in the sidebar will not include the duration numbers, since the size is reduced)
Thanks again,
Arthur
I replaced style=”top: ‘.round($height/2-45).’px; border:0;” with style=”position: absolute; left: 10px; border:0;” and I now have exactly what I needed.
this one can be done only by inserting the whole javascript into your page. That means no shortcodes, but the script that is being generated – you can have a look in the source code of the page where flowplayer is used.
The path to the swf used is printed there, so you can change it. You can adjust here all parameters separately as well.
Hello, great plugin! Is there a way to add additional flowplayer functionality via your FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin? For example, I would like to use the Flowplayer captioning plugin. How would I add that functionality using your plugin?
Is there some way to add a feature that lets you pause the player and not get the “play” button to show up? Or to designate that frame as the splash image?
I paused the player to take a screen snapshot of the image to create a splash page, but there are two problems.
One is that the “play” button (right triangle in a circle) is displayed as a watermark.
Second is that when I use that image, there’s ANOTHER play button displayed over the one in the image, and it totally obscures the image beneath it, in a square area bounding the outer circle.
Thanks for your reply Zdenka, I just insert a player with no time code(but still have the time rollover)Thanks again for your wonderful support, will come back here for sure.
Arthur
adding captioning plugin is not straightforward, and it would require significant changes in the code. The support for plugins themselves needs to be added as well as support for corresponding shortcodes. I am afraid is not that easy to tell what should be changed or added in the code.
I am sorry there is no user setting for removing that play button, you should take a screenshot while the video is running, not when it is paused. Or you can use some other video player in your computer to take a screenshot.
D’oh! The video plays fine… but the popup feature won’t work? :-(
[flowplayer src='http://localhost:8888/videos/hiddenassets.flv' width=400 height=280 popup='Please see <a href="http://www.MyCoolWebsiteURL.com/">My Cool Website URL</a> for more information']
PS: I’m running latest fv-wordpress-flowplayer plugin from wordpress.org, in WP 3.01, on my local PC with Wampserver.
we’ve checked the above shortcode on our test sites and the popup went exactly as expected. It appears at the end when the video stops playing, the link is also parsed correctly.
Basically you need to set the scaling int the fit mode into the clip properties (see FAQ) to prevent this stretching.
But you have to be aware that this feature affects the video also in the non fullscreen mode, which means you have to set the dimensions of the video very precisely, otherwise you’ll have borders around it. We will add this feature as optional in the next release.
I’ve recently tried adding your fv wordpress flowplayer to my website but all I see when I try to preview the video is a black box. I’m running php5 on our server and loading a flv file into a video folder beneath my website domain but still can’t play the video. I’ve checked the php footer in my wp theme which has been customized. I don’t, however, see the code line . Where would I insert this?
Not sure if this is the problem but don’t know what else to do. I don’t know much about the technical side of this so any help you can give me to get this running would be greatly appreciated.
Trying to activate FlowPlayer with WordPress 3.0.1 but every time I try it says “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class flowplayer in /home/davestra/strandland.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/models/flowplayer.php on line 3″
Really appreciate the hard work you’ve put into developing and maintaining Flowplayer! I’ve used it successfully on a previous website; I’m building a WP site for another client, and am having trouble activating the plugin (version 1.2.1). On attempting to activate, the following appears:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /nfs/c04/h05/mnt/84572/domains/utacademy.com/html/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/models/flowplayer.php on line 4
I know just enough php to *suspect* there’s a curly bracket missing somewhere, but I’m not quite confident enough to search it out. Has anyone else encountered this issue, or am I just missing something obvious?
this kind of error might appear if the PHP version on your server is older than PHP5 – this is a requirement to run the plugin, maybe you can check on that.
we just released a new version of fv wordpress flowplayer, the bug you’re describing has been fixed.
It also contains a new ‘Fit scale’ feature configurable in settings in the admin panel. It allows users to choose whether they would like to show their videos with native aspect ratio or in the stretched mode as it was until now. Setting this feature to true will show all videos in posts as well as in full-screen mode with the correct aspect ratio.
Like @George above, I too get a black box. Checking the source I see the player movie is not being loaded. The embed tag’s src attribute looks like this: src=”PLAYER”.
OK I worked it out. In my theme I was fiddling with post content before wp_head() was called. Thus flowplayer_head() was being called after the shortcode was processed. The PLAYER const is set in the flowplayer_head function. Maybe you need a check to make sure flowplayer_head is always run before the shortcode is processed and not rely on wp_head to do setup stuff.
Thanks for the tip about shortcodes. We should put something defensive in there. We’ll try to throw a visible error message if wp_head is not properly setup.
On the other hand, we will continue to anticipate wp_head and a footer file and the rest of the accoutrements of a properly configured theme file. Once one decides to support every possible mutilation of WordPress good coding practices, it’s a steep slope downhill to code spaghetti and total incompatibility for all of us between all plugins. I.e. welcome to Linux distribution fracturing.
we are about to release a support for HTML5 for FV WordPress Flowplayer. Those of you who are interested, can download the beta version and test it on your mobile devices. Let us know how the HTML 5 support works on your mobile device here.
the url you inserted is url of the site containing the video and not the video itself. The plugin expects the exact link to the video, like http://example.com/yourvideo.mp4, which I’m afraid won’t work with youtube.
I found a solution to one of my problems in the discussion above. Now, somewhat cross-eyed, I might have missed the answer to the second problem–is there a way to use the first frame of a video as the splash page? A zillion lines earlier you said you would look into it–is it possible?
no I’m sorry this feature is not available. The problem is that the first frame of the video is not very reliable, it is often incomplete or broken. Also, to get the first frame we would need to start to load the video which is exactly what we’re trying to avoid using a splash image.
The only way, though not recommended, is to set up the autobuffering to true and autoplay to false. This, however will load all videos on the page which will significantly slower down the pageload.
the tool that would build a sitemap for videos would have to parse the content of posts and search for the flowplayer shortcodes – this is probably the reason why the other tools does not work.
At the moment we don’t have such customized tool that would do this job, but we’ll be happy to assist if somebody builds such plugin.
When I first installed your plugin for a client, it worked perfectly during testing. Now, however, it is only playing audio and not the video for mp4s. If I paste the link to the mp4 into the browser, it plays both audio and video.
I’m told (by the person I built the site for) that if you go to the same page through the AOL browser, that the video doesn’t play (I don’t have an AOL account).
this is probably a coding issue. Flowplayer is able to play mp4 files, however not all codecs are supported. If you’re having troubles try to use another codec when saving your video, or use the flv format.
at the moment the HTML5 support is turned on only for mobile browsers. Right now, we are not thinking on turning the HTML 5 option as the default one, because all the features that we have for Flowplayer work only for Flowplayer and not for the HTML5 video player.
If you like customize your version of plugin, you can add more supported browsers, just add their user agents into the fv-wordpress-flowplayer/view/frontend-head.php on line 8, into the array $aUserAgents.
Hi,
I have installed the Plugin at my WordPress Installation, it´s perfect. But I hat a question.
How can I loop the video? I had a mp4 film, it works very good, but the film doesn´t loop.
Sorry for the bad englisch, I`am from Germany. :-)
Works great so far. Installed your beta plugin in one of my test WordPress sites, and I can view playback and MP4 hosted at Amazon S3 on an iPhone 4 with iOs 4.2 installed. The WordPress install is 3.0.4
Attempted to view my test page (same as referred to in my prior comment) on my iPad today. Won’t display on the iPad – gives me an error of “need flash player”. iPad is running version iOS 4.2.1
thanks for testing!
We just did a little research and it seems that Apple modified html5 media support in the 4.2 update of iOS.
It’s great you provided us with details about your iOS, helped with the problem identification. We’ll see what we can do about this problem. Thanks a lot for pointing this out!
We tried FV Flowplayer in AOL Explorer(v1.5), which we found free to download online, and the video you posted was playing.
Could you maybe provide some more details about the browser? Otherwise we are unable to help.
How can I insert a custom logo (e.g. my company’s branding) over videos? I know it’s possible in the standalone version of Flowplayer and I have purchased a commercial license. Any ideas?
You didn’t say what we need to do if we are already using FV WordPress Flowplayer. I attempted to install the HTML5 beta and it failed. I don’t want to screw up my other videos on my blog using the previous version, but would like to test the beta version to see if it plays nicely with WPtouch 2.1
could you please be more specific about what has failed when you tried to install this version of plugin?
If you don’t want to replace your previous version use ftp to backup this old version, and if you do not like the new one, just upload back the previous one.
Yes, this HTML5 support works with WPtouch plugin.
Regarding your test, you should backup the /wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer directory, or you can for example just rename that directory to something else, let’s say fv-wordpress-flowplayer-old. Then you can upload this new plugin. When you don’t like it just uninstall/delete the new old and rename the fv-wordpress-flowplayer-old back to fv-wordpress-flowplayer.
Don’t forget to activate/deactivate the plugins as you are changing them.
Well, I took the plunge and all seems to be working great on my Flash enabled computer, and my iPhone and iPad via WPtouch.
Now the only thing missing is to get a image or splash image to appear over the player while viewing on the iPHone or iPad.
If anyone has an Android, I would sure appreciate it if you would test this page to seen if my videos play. On the iPad or iPhone I have to wait for the play buttons to appear over the player, with isn’t too bad, it’s just if I had a splash screen showing while waiting for the play button that would be nice. Here’s the link.
I have the flowplayer working in my wordpress blog.. however, I have uploaded my videos (too lare for wp media upload) to a videos file in my wp-content file.
But, I can not find them when I open the insert Flowplayer icon. It only asks for the video name and does not accept whatever I put in. I have moved the videos to several different files, but still no luck. so my question is:
When I open the widget “f” in post editor, what is the default location? Where should I move my videos to? I would really appreciate your help, I have been working on this nonstop for 2 days and I have customers waiting for these videos.
is it possible to reactivate/show the splash screen once the video playback has finished? Where would be a good place to start for a modification, in case it’s not a built in short code?
this functionality is not implemented yet. If you feel like doing it, then it would require some additional coding in models/flowplayer-frontend.php, probably modifying $popup_contents around line 84, and maybe also the window.flowplayer(‘wpfp_$hash’).onFinish function which is on the line 88.
Thanks for your suggestion, we will consider adding this feature in the future.
Zdenka
Hi Ron and everybody else wondering about splash screens in HTML5. Good news, we’ll add this feature in the next release.
Looking forward to hear from you how HTML5 support works for you!
Zdenka
Hey Zdenka, the newest version of the plugin works in my browsers and on the iPad and iPhones I have with OS 4.2.1. It would be great if that play button could come up fast – not sure if that is something under control of the player or if that is a hosting issue…
Thanks for testing. Unfortunately the speed with which the play button shows up is not under our control, as you said it’s the hosting and the speed of your connection. However we’ll be adding the splash screen functionality, so hopefully it will cover this problem.
looking into this Android issue, is seems there’s one more thing that can be done on our end – we’re gonna test it.
But Androids seems to we very sensitive to the codecs used, you might want to check this site on the Android device: http://html5test.com/, it will tell you which codecs are supported on that device.
Generally, there’s no codec that would play on every device, which in practice means that you would need two or three different versions of the same video if you want it to play everywhere.
I’ve seen solutions when there were multiple formats for the same video (myvideo.mp4, myvideo.flv, etc) and the format which is suitable is used. HTML5 supports this and it allows to include multiple sources into one video tag (http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html). This way it is probable that at least one format/codec fits. You can read more about this here: Video that plays everywhere.
Using multiple video formats would be somehow hard to manage within one FV Flowplayer shortcode. Also, you would have to create and upload those videos. At this moment we are not implementing this functionality, we’ll see about this in the future.
“Using multiple video formats would be somehow hard to manage within one FV Flowplayer shortcode. Also, you would have to create and upload those videos. At this moment we are not implementing this functionality, we’ll see about this in the future.”
Oh I totally agree, nor do I want to encode and upload more than one video. Is that what Vimeo and Youtube does? Do they encode more than one video to play on different devices? One for the iPad, one for the Android, one for the iPhone, one for the desktop computer, one for slow DSL one for fast broadband… the list could go on…
Yes, I believe this is what YouTube does with the videos. I assume they do several automatic conversions when the video is uploaded. Just take that you can choose the resolution of the video – so they do have different sizes of videos available.
Also, when watching the video in Safari on desktop computer, it is in flv format, but on iPod/iPad it is in mp4 (flv won’t play).
Zdenka
Well, I’ll be looking forward to see the other possible solution you have that may allow Android and iPhone/iPad view the same video. You guys are smart I know you can pull it off. Thanks for your had work, I’ve done a lot of testing on other similar WP apps to display HTML5 videos and you solution seems to be the best so far!
Maybe you can ask CNN how they do it. It blows me away how you see a small image on their page, tap on it, and it blows up to a bigger size pushing the pages text down making room for it. Then sets there waiting for you to press the play button. Works the same way on both the iPhone or iPad. Very cool! Check it out on this page:
Is there a way to provide an image in the video player box from the video that is posted? As it is now, a visitor to my site just sees a black box with the iSkysoft logo and an arrow button. Not ideal.
I just downloaded Folioplayer WYSIWYG so that I could add a splash page onto my videos using the FV WordPress Folioplayer. Now the f icon has totally disappeared from my WordPress post page so I can’t even post a video let alone a splash page for it.
What do I do? Do I have to adjust any settings in Foliopress WYSIWYG?
Also, can you be more specific as to how to modify the coding on the frontend of the flowplayer to reactivate the splash screen once the the video playback has completed?
you can use the ‘splash’ tag in the shortcode to show an image. But this image has to be uploaded, we do not support showing up a frame from the actual video.
I am a little confused why are you seeing iSkysoft logo there, this certainly didn’t come from our plugin.
the F icon is now in the WYSIWYG toolbar just between the image icon for inserting images and the icon for displaying source.
I am afraid I can’t explain here what exactly do you have to do to reactivate splash screen, it requires more changes and understanding of the code. But we’ll be adding this feature probably in the next release.
I sent you a message last week but still have gtten no response. My question is about adding a splash page to precede my video. The info from FV Flowplayer suggests the following:
[flowplayer src='example.flv' splash=image.jpg]
I added a custom image with the same dimensions as my video to the video file where the flash video is located. It looks like this:
I’m sorry we haven’t received any message with this question. However, your shortcodes looks ok, so I am not sure what can be a problem there. Could you maybe provide us with the full shortcode you’re trying to use, with the full paths? We will check if there is some bug in the plugin related to your shortcode.
I am glad you managed to install Fv WordPress Flowplayer, I’m sorry your comments were marked as spam so we found them just now.
To your question, the add video wizard will never offer you the option to select a video from a list, if you uploaded the video via ftp, you have to know the exact location of the video and type it in there manually, in your case it might be something like wp-content/videos/yourvideo.flv or similar.
Hi,
I LOVE this plugin! Great for displaying videos (inside a WP membership site) sitting in my Amazon S3 account. THANKS for making it available.
Question – how can I get rid of the centering? I looked for css code someone mentioned back in 2009 (above) but could not find anything.
Thanks for any assistance you can provide!
the code ‘echo apply_filters..’ can be used when placing the video into the template.
If you want to insert the video into a widget let’s say via Text Widget, just place the normal shortcode there, just as you’re placing into post.
The centering is set at the very top of the flowplayer.css file, in the flowplayer_container class.
It is the line “margin: 0 auto 0 auto !important;”.
Comment the line out to get default alignment.
Thank you for your response. That is exactly what I did in the first instance – inserted the same code in sidebar widget (text widget. It came with error message “200. Stream Not Found..”
Good news is I got it to work. Really strange though! I used the same vid – but this time uploaded to a different s3 ‘bucket’. A bit of trial and error and it worked. I won’t even try to figure it out. Inserting in the page/post is no problem – but it is a bit ‘touchy’ when it comes to sidebar (text widget).
we included the reactivation of the splash image after the video finishes playing. The release just went out, you are welcome to check it out.
Just include the “splashend=show” into the shortcode. Please notice that the image has to have the same dimensions as the video, as there is no stretching applied.
there’s an option to display the popup when the video finish playing. This popup contains also the ‘Share’ button which displays the link to the video.
Entering a Commercial Key does not work, because Flowplayer has their keys hardcoded to a specific version of their software (i.e. the latest version).
I exchanged the 3.1.5 commercial player with the current (3.2.5) player and changed the path reference in models/flowplayer.php line 110 to reflect the change :
Flowplayer will now play just fine on the WordPress settings page, without branding (which is good), but on all WordPress pages that worked with the free version there’s now is a black hole instead of the player (which is bad). I’ve looked for other references that would need changing, but no luck so far.
Any help would be appreciated! (for the time being, I’ve reverted to the free player).
we just checked the 3.2.5 version, seems to be working ok.
When you uploaded the new flowplayer file, did you renamed it to flowplayer.commercial-3.2.5.swf?
The name of the file should be the same as the one you filled on the line 110.
It also seems that Flowplayer upgraded also the flowplayer.controls file, so be sure you upload this file as well – don’t change it’s name.
Thanks for your experience with entering the keys! We’ll prepare a guide on how to add the Flowplayer files.
Flowplayer gave me a 3.1.5 key, which worked, but I’m running 3.2.5 now, with its associated key, and it now seems to work. Not sure what happened… Maybe it’s the controls file, or the naming of the controls file. Anyway, it appears to be working just fine. thanks Zdenka!
Now if I can only get rid of the gradient canvas, and get my logo in…
1) My video is going to be 480×360, and I made my thumbnail the same…there’s a black line on the left and top. How do I get rid of that?
You can see what I mean here…
http://www.bcchurchlive.com/?p=187
2) I tried and tried and can’t get it to autoplay. I’ve set it to true in the settings and in the code, but it’s still not auto playing. How do I fix this?
the first problem you having is your own css. Sorry, I can’t fix that for you.
The second issue: just remove the splash screen if you want to run autoplay. You can’t have autoplay and splash at the same time, splash screen has the priority here, so if you used splash, it is placed over the video and autoplay is supressed.
Thanks Zdenka, it looks like I have some problem with the theme. The plug works fine with other themes, other FP plugs and my current theme work fine…but your plug and my current theme are not working together.
Any clues? If not I will probably just go with another theme.
Steve Porter at February 17th, 2011 around 2:53 pm
I am using WorPress 3.0.5. I have uploaded and activated FV WordPress Flowplayer. After filling out the dialogue box, however, nothing happens when I click on the “Insert” button except that the button flickers.
I want to play a video on one of my pages, but when I press play, the video starts to load, but it doesn’t start to play. I waited for hours, but nothing, it’s still loading and not playing. The video file is compressed, an h.264 mov file and is 6 mb in size. What can be the problem?
If I use the new feature to use the WP Media Library, do I need to use the absolute url to access the video or is there a way to upload directly to the default “videos” directory using the Media Library?
thx… dave
Dave Williams at February 28th, 2011 around 2:56 pm
yes, you can insert videos using the WordPress Media Uploader, after you hit the Insert FV WP Flowplayer icon in either Foliopress WYSIWYG or the standard WordPress editor.
The Media Library works with the WordPress Media Library directory (which uses wp-content/uploads/ as a default).
WordPress supports only one directory for all the uploads, so it won’t go into /videos, unless you change that directory in Settings -> Media. But that would affect other uploads too. We are trying to figure our a way of changing this path for the videos without user intervention and without breaking older uploads.
Unfortunately, changing images/finished.png into a full black image has NOT solved the problem. I still have a gradient background, which is especially distracting when going full screen using the ‘fit’ option.
Also, the background of the control bar (which in my custom player has a gradient) is colored flat in FV WordPress Flowplayer. This more a cosmetic problem, but it’s strange that while other features of the custom player (timeline color, etc) are left intact, the control bar background would be overridden by a flat color.
Hi, this plugin looks great, but I cant seem to find out if it supports live streaming rtmp? I have a wowza on ec2 but cant seem to find out if the plugin supports it, or if there is a way to use the live plugin from flowplayer.
I’ve updated from Flowplayer version 1.0.6 to 1.2.4. and now have a problem.
All the mp4 videos on my site worked fine with 1.0.6.
Now while the audio is playing, the video frame (box) displays this message “300: Player initialization failed: ReferenceError #1069″. The frame/box and the control bar show just fine.
Even the demo video on Flowplayer’s admin menu panel has this problem.
I’m using WordPress version 3.1, but I also had this same issue under the previous version of WP.
Also, I installed the plugin using the manual download zip-file method and the problem is the same as when I used the WP automated installation method.
Please advise me how to get version 1.2.4 to work properly.
we haven’t experienced this problem so far, so it is hard to tell what went wrong. Could you maybe point us to a site where this problem appeared?
Thanks,
Zdenka
I would also like to be able to disable the “Play again” feature (as requested above). In some situations I want to just play the video and leave it on the last frame.
There was some reference to doing this on the Flowplayer site – but the examples shown (javascript to alter the opacity level of the onfinish function) do not seem to be easily applied to this plugin (or at least I cannot see how to modify the plugin).
I just installed your plugin and I don’t really know how to connect it with Amazon S3. Actually I don’t know neither S3 nor your plugin too well, both were recommended to me.
When I want to insert the URL of the video from S3 into the post, it shows a hyperlink on the site (not the video screen) and when I click on the hyperlink it says that the video is used by another program (while no other applications are open on my computer).
Can you show me to the right direction here? I know this is really a basic question, but I am new in this.
I don’t understand how I can provide both a flash .flv for most browsers with a fallback to a .mov or .mp4 for HTML5 on mobile devices. What code do i use in the tag for this?
with the current version of plugin you can upload only one video, there is currently not place for using multiple videos.
If you use mp4, it would play with normal browsers as well as with HTML5 on iphones, ipods…
our plugin work so far only with direct links to videos – the link should look like http://somedomain.com/some/folders/yourvideo.mp4. I am not sure which links you tried to use, and how they turned up to be hyperlinks. An example would help in your case.
I know the FAQ says no, but with the latest version of FV Flowplayer, wouldn’t it be possible to embed videos hosted on S3? Isn’t a direct hyperlink to a video file?
if you have a direct link to a video hosted on S3 such as http://your.s3.amazonaws.com/video.mp4
then this videos of course can be played in our plugin.
At the moment we do not support private videos, password protected videos, streaming and other ways of sharing the video.
Direct link to a video file should work, but if the link doesn’t contain the name of video file then it won’t play.
Thanks for clarifying that. Could I protect them with a bucket policy that restricts access to my S3 files and only allows requests from mydomain.com? I was able to get this sort of functionality working in JW Player a few months ago except for Firefox which doesn’t (for some reason) include referrer header information in requests from the Flash file for JW Player.
This might be a little contrived but do you think this type of setup would work; does Flowplayer send that information? Also, are there any plans on including support for private S3 video embeds?
the first functionality is not build in our plugin, and at the moment we are not planning to add this.
On the other hand, yes we are interested in adding the support for private video embeds from S3. However we are looking for a sort of support here: we need somebody who will provide an access to his S3 account, with couple of short videos for testing.
If you are willing to help us this way, we’ll be happy to initiate the development of this feature.
The icon for adding a Flowplayer is missing in QuickPress mode. See my screenshot. Probably just a minor issue. The missing icon seems to point at ‘https://calle.nl/wp-admin/RELATIVE_PATH/images/icon.png'. Oh. I have enforced SSL for my WordPress installation, perhaps the icon is there in straight http:// mode, I wouldn’t know since I haven’t bothered disabling SSL enforce just to see how it shows in http:// mode.
I did put shortcode into a page and then used Firebug to extract HTML to get the video the size that I wanted it (it was defaulting to plugin defaults), but this is totally inconvenient.
Hi,
Thanks so much for making this brilliant plugin available. I’m having a few problems with the recent update though :-)…
I updated the plugin today to version 1.2.6 and now the video within a widget on the home page isn’t displaying at the size I have stipulated in the short code (533 x 300). Instead it is getting automatically resized to 320×240. Also the splash image no longer shows. The site is: http://www.gradam.ie
There’s another weird thing that I can’t fix that is there from the earlier version as well. In Posts and Pages the size given in the shortcode is kept and shown on the live pages but the size of the splash image gets squashed and leaves about a 20px band of grey on the right hand side. I’ve tried to find what is causing this but no luck so far. Eg: http://www.gradam.ie/index.php/category/oirfidigh/
Hey I downloaded the latest version of fv wordpress flowplayer, but I’m still experiencing the same problem as Dave’s. I think we should manually change the admin on the backend file to wp-admin. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
not sure what you’re talking about, Daves problem was about something different and it is already fixed.
Please do not rename core files of the plugin unless you know what you’re doing.
I cant thank you enough for the plugin, my website is primarily video content and I like the idea of being able to change a setting, and not have to do it per videos embed code..
That being said, I would like to make a small wish list for any future updates that I think would be very beneficial.
More default settings, so if I want to display certain text at the end of ALL videos, I can set that and not have to insert it in each post.
Somehow integrate the plugins from flowplayer, such as the share plugin.
Set default height and width, this can be done in a flowplayer-frontend.php in the folder called Models, but I really like easy settings like you currently have in the plugin settings page.
This is a very important plugin for me, it takes so much work away that I dont have to do now.. I love it. Thank you!
we are really happy that you like our plugin. Thanks for all those suggestions from your wish list.
We will definitely think about the default width and height setting, this is a good point.
More default settings – we’ll see about this.
About other plugins integration, well this is more complicated, as there’s no way that we can build some default plugin integration. FV WordPress Flowplayer is built to be user friendly – only simple shortcodes are needed. However this leaves all the configuration of plugins on our shoulders, so we actually have to prepare all the code for each plugin separately. This is the main reason why we do not plan to support Flowplayer plugins in general.
Love the plugin but I can’t seem to get the splash image to show at the end. I added splashend=show in the code. The front image shows but not showing at the end. What am I doing wrong?
the play again button is built in the Flowplayer and this cannot be changed.
The background should be changed also in the backend of WP in the FV WordPress Flowplayer settings – the canvas option.
The play button that appears at the beginning is located in images/play.png, you can replace this with your own image – put the same name play.png so you do not have to change the code.
Zdenka thanks for advising me how to switch-off the controlbar. It worked !
Now I face problem whether I can switch-off the functionality that enables user to pause the video by clicking on video area ?
The point here is that i want to use this plugin for playing my videosalesletter that will start playing on autoplay and my prospect customer cannot have the possibility to pause until the end of video is reached.
I’ve been using your plugin for about 6 months now and it’s great! I just upgraded the FV Flowplayer plugin to version 1.2.7 and I’m running WP 3.1.2 and I’ve just installed the AdStreamer whcih is working well.
But I’m having trouble getting the splash page feature to run (which ran well with the previous plugin version). I’ve checked that the size of the splash file is the same as the video and the paths are identical but still no splash page.
The only thing I can suggest is that you place a div above the player, assign some z-index to it via css which will make the video non-clickable. This however would prevent the user to play the video again as well…
I really like using the plugin, but I’m finding on my page it loads really slowly. Any idea how I can improve this? The video is hosted on Amazon S3.
I have auto buffering set to “true” At the least it would be nice if I could display a progress bar or something so that people don’t think it’s an error on the site. Thanks
The video using flowplayer is at prettytough.com. You’ll see a blank white box on the right side of the page. If you click on the box (where the spalsh image should be) you’ll see an ad (using AdStreamer) and then the video will play. But no splash page.
I’m using fv flowplayer version 1.2.7, OpenAdStreamer version 0.5.0-rc2.swf and wordpress version 3.1.2.
I can get the splash and video to work or the ad and video to work but not all three at the same time.
I would say that the OpenAdStreamer interferes with the div that is supposed to hold the splash image. It is hard to tell from your site as you have autoplay turned on, so there wouldn’t be splash anyway.
If the OpenAdStreamer removes our div, than we cannot do anything to put the splash back in there, as we cannot manage other Flowplayer plugins codes.
Thanks so much Zdenka! I had placed the shortcode in there just like you said and it had shown up (box with splash immage and button) but wouldn’t play. Now I realize that may have happened because I had left the video to be replaced in there. Maybe that created some conflict? Anyways, when I re-did it and deleted the other code, it worked beautifully.
Thanks so much for a great and easy to use player AND for this AWESOME support with the user guide, FAQ, super fast responses. And all of it FREE. Really: THANKS!!
I have uploaded a video using FTP into /uploads/2011/05 folder. I have used another plug-in called ‘Add to Server’ to make it visible in the Media Library. When I go to play the video after going through the FlowPlayer Add to Post process, it won’t play. Is there a limit to the size of a video that can be played?
The code that gets inserted is
[flowplayer src='http://www.shoeihelmetreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shoei-RF1100-Review.mp4' width=640 height=360]
this seems to me like a problem not related to our plugin. Can you somehow verify that the video is really in the folder /wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ ?
We cannot play the video either from that location, so I would say that your ‘Add to Server’ plugin maybe placed the video somewhere else. Also try to check if the file name is correct. The best way would be to check it directly via FTP.
when I go to add a video and am given the option to open media library to upload a new video I am sked ‘are you sure you want to do this?’- please try again and then it sends me back to the previous screen??
How do I disable the “share” function at the end of the video? I want the splash screen to pop up with a “play again” message, but I don’t want the share function.
there is no option to just remove the share button from the final pop up box.
If you want just a simple play again button, then disable popup box entirely in the settings in teh admin section, and you’ll get just ‘Play again’ at the end of video.
this sounds like a conflict with some other plugin that uses media library as well, because we do not have his kind of question in our plugin. We neither experienced this problem before.
Maybe you can try to disable other plugins to find out if the problem disappears, please let us know if you find something.
I am trying to use Flow Player that comes with my new site them Prestige. I seem to be having a problem embedding youtube video’s and getting FP to play them. I keep coming up with a 200 netstream not found.
I’ve tried taking the ” out and or changing it to ‘ with no avail. Any other options would be great.
you’re not using our plugin, the shortcode you pasted it not ours, please refer your question to Prestige Dark Video Player. Our plugin is FV WordPress Flowplayer and the shortcode starts with [flowplayer ...]
But to give you a hint, the url you’re trying to paste is a link to the page where is the video. This way it won’t play. You have to link directly to the video, not to the page – your url should end with .mp4, .flv or some other video extension.
I am looking for an flv auto player. I have created the flv in Pinnacle editor and want to have it start on homepage automatically. Can your addin do this.
I have sent you a website with exactly what I want to have happen.
please try to check the post content in the source editor, you probably inserted the shortcode into the post with some hidden formatting or code which causes the error. The first shortcode should be fine.
About your first problem. We do support the default wordpress editor, and we also support Foliopress WYSIWYG editor. Which editor do you use for editing your posts? It might happen that if ou use some other editor, the shortcodes are not inserted properly.
I’m using the default wordpress editor and will have to figure that out. I can just manually enter the shortcode in the meantime.
The problem is solved. It seems that after publishing the post some extra code would get added, so I just needed to go back and delete the extra code and save again. Works great now.
Also started using flowplayer with MaxCDN and is much faster for displaying video.
How do we disable the popup in the admin section? I have the popup set to false in the admin section but share is still showing up when the video finishes. I just want it to give the option to play again.
For popup not to show you have to have the popup disabled in the admin section, and also your shortcode does not have to include the popup=”" part.
Are these both criteria met and you’re still having popup displayed? Can you post us a link to an example please? (Along with the shortcode you used)
Thanks!
Zdenka
I found what finally worked for me was to ensure that popup was false in the admin section (which is already was by default) and I also had to have the end splash screen turned off.
I have following problem. I have uploaded two videos (.flv) via FTP to video folder. First one, which is about 19 MB, works well. The second one,
which is about 36 MB, shows splash image, but when I click play button, I get white box and time is showing 00:00 00:00. Is there a max file size or why the second video is not working?
I checked your site and all videos can be played. The bottom video ‘Video title’ plays, but there’s only audio – this is probably issue of encoding. We don’t have any restrictions regarding the file size.
Thanks for your quick reply. I have been trying few things without luck. That video works perfectly except on the website. I only get under 20 MB videos to work. Could this be some wordpress limit?
Thanks I got it to work. You were right at the first place, the problem was with encoding. I used a video converter and now everything is working fine. Great plugin and especially thanks for this help forum!
I’ve looked high and low for this functionality, but can’t seem to figure it out. I want to link to a video using an image on a page – when that image is clicked, the video would play… is this even possible?
For instance, I have a page with 4 button images. Each button, when clicked, would play the designated linked video.
I guess splash screen does exactly what you want. You just need a video and the image that should be displayed, please read the user guide and try it yourself to see if the splash screen is what you need.
So far this plugin looks great and seems to be working well. One issue with the HTML 5 aspect is with the Firefox browser on Android (v4.0.2pre)- there is a large black box with a “play ” arrow on the bottom of the movie – but the circular play button is still there and does not go away after the video starts. I am assuming that this is a feature of HTML5. Is there a way to disable the HTML5 support until all browsers are equal?
My other question is regarding the width/height of the videos: It would be convenient to set default width/height as percentages rather than pixels? (Rather than having “px” just attached to the end of what is in the options boxes) I know most people may not want this – but it would be very handy when wanting one page show up on mobile browsers and desktops consistently. If you could just point me to the file to edit out the adding of the “px” in the style attribute of the <a> with class=”flowplayer_container” that would be great!
Just to clarify the percentage reasoning – Since my layout is almost all fluid except for the body tag, I would like to have my videos almost always (almost) cover 100% of their <div>’s width at load time and then set the appropriate height value(default height isn’t as important as it would be determined by the aspect ratio).
After doing some testing with it – I see that this will take more to resolve than the percent width. It looks like it would be necessary to add a calculation to adjust the height as well, I didn’t notice the slight skewing before and assumed that height was auto adjusting.
I will rummage through the code and see if I can figure anything out – If you know where the best place to add in some changes, I would appreciate it greatly!
example page: http://onebrownshoe.com/45-2/ – That is set as if manually set for mobile only. On desktop video is too small (also top/bottom margins are much different on mobile than on desktop for some reason)
Hi,
Could you post a method on how we can manually implement flowplayer plugins? For example, I want to use your plugin to upload and embed my videos, but I also need to be able to use the flowplayer captions plugin to show subtitles.
‘to disable HTML 5 until all browsers are equal’ – in that case we would never launch HTML5 support – browsers will never be equal, and by enabling HTML5 we’re trying to show the videos at least to those users who are able to see at least something.
About the width and height – you got it right in your second post – that is exactly the problem: that you do not know the height.
The width can be adjusted by percentage, however the height remains the problem as it needs to be defined.
Also for mobile devices, I guess everybody who can watches the video in fullscreen anyway…
sorry we’re not thinking on posting a guide on this. Adding support for flowplayer plugins is not straightforward and it requires significant amount of coding at multiple places of the source code. Writing such a guide would therefore need to be a comprehensive programming guide which, as you hopefully understand, we’re not going to write.
Thank you for your quick reply. I know what you mean about the equal browsers bit – so frustrating when trying to do anything. However, in Firefox on Android the HTML5 bit actually works and you don’t have to watch the video in full screen but it actually plays in the page. That is where the problem comes in RE: the big black box with an arrow and the default circle “play” icon not disappearing when you begin to play the video. (I’m not sure if it matters but I am using wp-mobile-video-player and have 5 different source file formats).
I may still try to play around with some javascript to see if I can find a way to alter the height according to the ratio and width of the video, but for now I will make do with manually defining it.
Is FV Flowplayer really HTTP 5 ready? I use WPTouch. Am I required to implement a workaround of some kind to get my videos to operate on my iPhone when I go to my site?
yes, FV WordPress Flowplayer is serving HTML5 video to all mobile devices. Whether the device supports HTML5 video is different question and we cannot guarantee that. Of course you have to use video that can be played on mobile devices (we recommend mp4, flv is not a good option – flash just won’t play)
iPhones, iPods support HTML5 video tags very well and the video plays without any problems with our plugin. Androids or Blackberry phones support HTML5 only partly, or not at all, therefore the video might have troubles playing.
Hello, I try to use your plugins to stream file from a protected ftp server.
I try to insert it in the post (wordpress) in this mod:
[flowplayer src=ftp://username:password@server.com/path/to/the/file]
The player is loading but does not play any file. It says : 200, Stream not found…and I saw that he try to find the file on a location that include http://name of my site.com/ftp://username:password@server.com/path/to/the/file
How can I modify it to load the file from ftp server ?
I cannot stop the autoplay option for the video. This is the code do_shortcode([flowplayer src='https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/brightstartvideos/Tester+2.mp4' width=400 height=244 splash=http://server/projects/ananth/brightstart/wp-content/themes/bright/images/video.jpg]); , which i used in my wordpress blog.
excellent plugin – i recently switched to it from HD webplayer. however im having one issue. there code for the video/plugin is being loaded into my excerpt on my home page. is there any way to combat this?
pseudostreaming is not yet supported, but we are considering adding it.
Hi John,
the shortcodes are not stripped off from the excerpts, and at the moment there is no setting in the plugin to prevent this behavior, but thanks for the suggestion.
Hi Lilpodbebe,
No playlist support as already mentioned above or in our FAQ.
sorry no reported problems about autoplay. Please check if your shortcode is written correctly, if there are no hidden characters – witch to the source code view.
We’re using your plugin on the home page and it works beautifully in Firefox and Chrome but it will not play in IE9. Any ideas? There are no other video plugins installed, in fact hardly any other plugins at all.
do not use spaces in the directory/file names – I know the above is just an example, but just a reminder.
Also if you use autoplay there’s no point of submitting the splash screen – think will be the problem, that the splash screen takes the advantage and the autoplay is not executed. Try to remove the splash.
Just wanted to update you a bit — I tried removing the splash image just to see if that caused the issue in IE9, it wasn’t the issue but it did reveal the issue. The flash player needed updated, plus I am running on 64-bit, so the latest flash player isn’t available for my browser.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know so you weren’t left banging your head against the wall!
I don’t know why the version info is not showing up, it’s filled correctly in the changelog.
However, the only change in this release is related to RSS feeds. Video wouldn’t play in feeds anyway, and it causes the feed to be invalid (throwing some warnings in the validity checker). Therefore we removed the video from feeds completely.
Help! I have a site that is just about to go online! The client wanted the commercial logo removed so I just bought a flowplayer commercial license, put that number in where the word false was before, and now my videos will not play! Do you have any idea what to do? if you go to the site, it is on the e-communications page. I did notice that the product key that they sent me is for Flowplayer 3.2.7, but i haven’t changed anything except put in the product key!
In the end, I did get it licensed Flowplayer to play, but not as the FAQ said. Couldn’t get that to work. I found my answer a combination of places, mostly on your forum from Allerbe60 on Feb. 14th and your answer.
What eventually worked was to upload into the commercial folder both the flowplayer.commercial-3.2.7.swf and the flowplayer.controls-3.2.5.swf (odd that they don’t match, but that’s what comes in latest version). Then I had to changed the path reference in models/flowplayer.php line 109 to reflect the change :
define(‘PLAYER’, RELATIVE_PATH.’/flowplayer/commercial/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.7.swf’);
That matched my license code and it worked!
Thanks for a wonderful product.
If interested, I can also tell you how I got it coded to work in a WordPress Fancybox pop-up from a thumbnail. Took a while to figure out, but it works just beautifully!
281 comments on “FV WordPress Flowplayer Changelog”
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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 ;-)
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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
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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 ;-)
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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.
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Where, in the code, is it telling it to center the video? I need the videos to be left aligned, not centered.
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Never mind, I found it. In flowplayer.css, flowplayer_container class
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Hey Alec,
drop me an email and I will forward any pertinent information to you…..
I can add soem small test videos as well….
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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.
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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
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Hi Zdenka,
I’m having the same black box issue. I’ve checked the footer.php and have the code in place and I’m still getting this issue. I tried re-installing and that didn’t help either… any other suggestion?
Regards,
Dean
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Hello, same problem here:
the plugin version 0.9.1.8 used to work fine in wordpress 2.9.2, but after upgrading to 3.0.1 the player SWF shows only a black box without video and control buttons.
EVEN IN THE ADMIN PANEL!
I’ve tried to update the plugin to 1.2, and manually upload the folder by FTP. My theme does contain the wp footer.
The bizarre thing is that it runs smoothly in a local clone wp install, as well as online after a page refresh with Firefox 3.6, but not ANY other browser.
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I’ve managed to get the player work by overwriting the swf and the js with the files shipped with the previous version of the plugin, or the player version 3.1.5
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Hi,
Thanks for the awesome plugin.
This is much better than the other “Flowplayer for WordPress”.
Why?
Because the other version crashes when you use a splash page in IE8. (Yeah, IE is slow, picky, and generally buggy… but a lot of people use it.)
I have been struggling with work-arounds for this bug (even submitted a bug to flowplayer, but got no love).
In the process of trying to get it fixed I found your version of the player… stellar!
MUCH MUCH MUCH better!
Thanks so much for this!
Sincerely,
Jay
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Can the size of the floating play image be adjusted in size when scaling a video? If you look at http://realestatecareertraps.com/about/market-centers/allentown-market-center/ you’ll see that the play image is over powering and the video window would be more balanced with a smaller play image.
Any idea how to make adjustments? I tried replacing the “play.png” with a smaller image in the image folder but the png was automatically scaled larger by the code :-(
thx…
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Hi Dave,
the size of the play button is fixed at the moment and it is defined in the fv-wordpress-flowplayer/models/flowplayer-frontend.php file on line 118. It is set to 83 pixels, that’s why the smaller picture you uploaded got scaled up.
If you like to make the image smaller, change the size here.
We will consider making this play button more adjustable, thanks for your comment.
Zdenka
19
Hi Zdenka,
Thanks for letting Dave know. Adjusting play button size is not a priority feature. The current size works with most videos.
20
No, let me tel you that i m the one who thank you.Flowpayer works only with your plugin in my theme.The other one have some conflict.There was some issues due to a FP update version,not really your fault.You solved my problem in record time.I really appreciate your effort, and that’s why i will look closely to your products. I update the plugin, edit the flowPlayer.js .Everything looks good now.People over FlowPlayer where very helpful too, keeping in mind that they have ton of requests.Zdenka,thanks a lot !
Arthur
21
Last thing,
is there a way to delete the color controls for the player ? since I want to load a version of the player with a transparent controlbar,but once on line the it will took the opaque command.Also please provide an email for donations via Paypal.Thanks, Arthur
22
I successfully got the plugin to work for progressive downloads of mp4s, thanks for a simple and easy to use way to embed videos in WordPress.
Is there a way to support rtmp on mp4s with this plugin? My videos are huge and take 3-5 minutes to load, and I’d prefer to 1) make the loading/play faster for users, and 2) not get charged for unnecessary bandwidth. Thanks!
23
Hi Arthur,
well if you want to tinker with colors and opacity, I can direct you to the php file where the properties are set. It is the /models/flowplayer-frontend.php, and the colors are handled around lines 130-150.
The opacity of the whole control bar is set as opacity: 1.0 at line 148.
Please be careful here, and be sure you backup this file before you change anything.
Hope this helps,
Zdenka
24
Thanks for the info on how to adjust the size of play button… having a smaller button really made a difference.
Is there a way to move the button to the top right or left of the play window? I found the code which I believe centers the button ($height/2-45). What could I use to shift the button to a different location?
thx…
25
Thanks a lot Zdenka,to point me in the right direction.Change was made successfully.:)
I ve a conflict with 2 embeded swf in the home page if embed them in html.
With your plugin, no conflict,but i need to load a different swf,a player without time number due to the size.Is there a way to load an swf, in a place and another in another place with your plugin ?
As always, thanks a lot for you precious help.
Arthur
26
Hi,
I use your player in a couple of sites. I was just wondering if a function to get a video excerpt could be added. That would help in using it as a template tag to show custom sized previews in some place other than the main post in custom loops.
If a function could extract the shortcode from the content and only show the player (replacing the height & width with the newly defined ones) in a loop, it’d be a brilliant feature. I have seen a similar function in a plugin called XHTML Video Embed.
It would be very similar to the_thumbnail(); tag, maybe like flowplayer_video_excerpt(140X80); !
27
Hi Dave,
you found it right, this piece of code controls the horizontal position of the play button, try using for example 0 instead.
See our FAQ for more info.
Zdenka
28
Hi Arthur,
I am not sure what exactly you mean, if you are talking about inserting flowplayer somewhere else than in the post content, you might want to read our FAQ How do I insert flowplayer object outside the post, for example to a sidebar?
Zdenka
29
Thanks Zdenka,Yes I already insert flowplayer in post and sidebar thanks to your plugin.
The one in the side bar need to load another swf, not the same as the one in the post.(ie,post load 3.2.5.swf,sidebar load 3.2.4.swf)Do you see a possible way for this?(this is due to the fact that the swf in the sidebar will not include the duration numbers, since the size is reduced)
Thanks again,
Arthur
30
Thanks Zdenka
I replaced style=”top: ‘.round($height/2-45).’px; border:0;” with style=”position: absolute; left: 10px; border:0;” and I now have exactly what I needed.
Such a great plugin to work with….
31
How do we align the div to left instead of center ? I have modified the css and no luck.
32
Hi X-Pak,
the centering is defined in css, in the flowplayer_container class.
Zdenka
33
Hi Arthur,
this one can be done only by inserting the whole javascript into your page. That means no shortcodes, but the script that is being generated – you can have a look in the source code of the page where flowplayer is used.
The path to the swf used is printed there, so you can change it. You can adjust here all parameters separately as well.
Zdenka
34
Hello, great plugin! Is there a way to add additional flowplayer functionality via your FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin? For example, I would like to use the Flowplayer captioning plugin. How would I add that functionality using your plugin?
Thanks
35
Is there some way to add a feature that lets you pause the player and not get the “play” button to show up? Or to designate that frame as the splash image?
I paused the player to take a screen snapshot of the image to create a splash page, but there are two problems.
One is that the “play” button (right triangle in a circle) is displayed as a watermark.
Second is that when I use that image, there’s ANOTHER play button displayed over the one in the image, and it totally obscures the image beneath it, in a square area bounding the outer circle.
Thanks!
-David
36
Thanks for your reply Zdenka, I just insert a player with no time code(but still have the time rollover)Thanks again for your wonderful support, will come back here for sure.
Arthur
37
Hi Mdk,
adding captioning plugin is not straightforward, and it would require significant changes in the code. The support for plugins themselves needs to be added as well as support for corresponding shortcodes. I am afraid is not that easy to tell what should be changed or added in the code.
zdenka
38
Hi David,
I am sorry there is no user setting for removing that play button, you should take a screenshot while the video is running, not when it is paused. Or you can use some other video player in your computer to take a screenshot.
Zdenka
39
D’oh! The video plays fine… but the popup feature won’t work? :-(
[flowplayer src='http://localhost:8888/videos/hiddenassets.flv' width=400 height=280 popup='Please see <a href="http://www.MyCoolWebsiteURL.com/">My Cool Website URL</a> for more information']
PS: I’m running latest fv-wordpress-flowplayer plugin from wordpress.org, in WP 3.01, on my local PC with Wampserver.
40
Hi Tim,
we’ve checked the above shortcode on our test sites and the popup went exactly as expected. It appears at the end when the video stops playing, the link is also parsed correctly.
Zdenka
41
Is there a way to embed from a link to my CDN?
Thanks,
LJ
42
Hi LJ,
We haven’t tried linking to CDN yet, did you succeeded with this issue?
Zdenka
43
Hello Zdenka,
Is there a solution for this issue? If so perhaps you could be kind enough to post it for our users.
Having to hand update the SWF files is not a solution.
44
hi
everything works fine – but in the fullscreen mode i have the same problems with the aspect ratio like others – any suggestions?
harry
45
Hi Harald,
Basically you need to set the scaling int the fit mode into the clip properties (see FAQ) to prevent this stretching.
But you have to be aware that this feature affects the video also in the non fullscreen mode, which means you have to set the dimensions of the video very precisely, otherwise you’ll have borders around it. We will add this feature as optional in the next release.
Zdenka
46
I’ve recently tried adding your fv wordpress flowplayer to my website but all I see when I try to preview the video is a black box. I’m running php5 on our server and loading a flv file into a video folder beneath my website domain but still can’t play the video. I’ve checked the php footer in my wp theme which has been customized. I don’t, however, see the code line . Where would I insert this?
Not sure if this is the problem but don’t know what else to do. I don’t know much about the technical side of this so any help you can give me to get this running would be greatly appreciated.
47
Trying to activate FlowPlayer with WordPress 3.0.1 but every time I try it says “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class flowplayer in /home/davestra/strandland.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/models/flowplayer.php on line 3″
Any idea what the dealio might be?
-Dave
48
Hello,
Really appreciate the hard work you’ve put into developing and maintaining Flowplayer! I’ve used it successfully on a previous website; I’m building a WP site for another client, and am having trouble activating the plugin (version 1.2.1). On attempting to activate, the following appears:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /nfs/c04/h05/mnt/84572/domains/utacademy.com/html/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/models/flowplayer.php on line 4
I know just enough php to *suspect* there’s a curly bracket missing somewhere, but I’m not quite confident enough to search it out. Has anyone else encountered this issue, or am I just missing something obvious?
Thanks again –
Chris Clark
49
Hi George,
the footer hook can be inserted at the end of the page, just before the closing body tag.
Zdenka
50
Hi Chris,
this kind of error might appear if the PHP version on your server is older than PHP5 – this is a requirement to run the plugin, maybe you can check on that.
Zdenka
51
Hi Dave,
we just released a new version of fv wordpress flowplayer, the bug you’re describing has been fixed.
It also contains a new ‘Fit scale’ feature configurable in settings in the admin panel. It allows users to choose whether they would like to show their videos with native aspect ratio or in the stretched mode as it was until now. Setting this feature to true will show all videos in posts as well as in full-screen mode with the correct aspect ratio.
Zdenka
52
Thanks Zdenka. That did the trick and the player is working great!
George
53
Like @George above, I too get a black box. Checking the source I see the player movie is not being loaded. The embed tag’s src attribute looks like this: src=”PLAYER”.
54
OK I worked it out. In my theme I was fiddling with post content before wp_head() was called. Thus flowplayer_head() was being called after the shortcode was processed. The PLAYER const is set in the flowplayer_head function. Maybe you need a check to make sure flowplayer_head is always run before the shortcode is processed and not rely on wp_head to do setup stuff.
55
Also, in view/wizard.php line #1 uses a shortcode, if you have shortcodes disabled it’s not pretty.
56
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the tip about shortcodes. We should put something defensive in there. We’ll try to throw a visible error message if wp_head is not properly setup.
On the other hand, we will continue to anticipate wp_head and a footer file and the rest of the accoutrements of a properly configured theme file. Once one decides to support every possible mutilation of WordPress good coding practices, it’s a steep slope downhill to code spaghetti and total incompatibility for all of us between all plugins. I.e. welcome to Linux distribution fracturing.
Making the web work for you, Alec
57
Thanks for the tip — switched from PHP 4 to 5 (which I thought I was already running), and player installed just fine. Thanks for the prompt response!
Chris
58
I’m having the same problem as well and was hoping somebody had a solution.
59
Hi, fantastic plugin – thank you for your work!
Question #1: When I press the “pause” button (either in the post or in the full screen) – it doesn’t pause. Is there a fix?
Question #2: Any update on how to remove the “play again” transparent button? I am using the following versions:
(1) WordPress 3.0.1
(2) PHP 5
(3) FlowPlayer Version 1.2.2
Thanks again! :)
Kait
60
Hi Steven,
there’s a new version 1.2.2 of FV WordPress Flowplayer released. Do you experience the same problems also with latest release?
Zdenka
61
Hi Zdenka,
Yes, I do.
62
Hi Kaitlyn,
could you please provide us an example where this not working pause button appears? We haven’t experienced this problem yet.
About your second question, at the moment we are not planning to remove the Play again button.
Zdenka
63
Hi everybody,
we are about to release a support for HTML5 for FV WordPress Flowplayer. Those of you who are interested, can download the beta version and test it on your mobile devices. Let us know how the HTML 5 support works on your mobile device here.
Thanks,
Zdenka
64
I experimented with the a youtube video. I was hoping that this would work otherwise there is always the Youtube embed code.
The syntax generated is:
[flowplayer src='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFtByoTx6I' width=640 height=360]
I am getting an error about Stream Not Found.
Will this work as I intended?
Adrian
65
Hi Adrian,
the url you inserted is url of the site containing the video and not the video itself. The plugin expects the exact link to the video, like http://example.com/yourvideo.mp4, which I’m afraid won’t work with youtube.
Zdenka
66
Hi,
I found a solution to one of my problems in the discussion above. Now, somewhat cross-eyed, I might have missed the answer to the second problem–is there a way to use the first frame of a video as the splash page? A zillion lines earlier you said you would look into it–is it possible?
Thanks in advance, great plugin!
Ron
67
Hi Ron,
no I’m sorry this feature is not available. The problem is that the first frame of the video is not very reliable, it is often incomplete or broken. Also, to get the first frame we would need to start to load the video which is exactly what we’re trying to avoid using a splash image.
The only way, though not recommended, is to set up the autobuffering to true and autoplay to false. This, however will load all videos on the page which will significantly slower down the pageload.
Zdenka
68
Is there an easy way to create a video sitemap that can handle FV WordPress Flowplayer?
The tools I usually use don’t work since they don’t see an actual video file referenced on the page.
Thanks.
69
Hi Steven,
the tool that would build a sitemap for videos would have to parse the content of posts and search for the flowplayer shortcodes – this is probably the reason why the other tools does not work.
At the moment we don’t have such customized tool that would do this job, but we’ll be happy to assist if somebody builds such plugin.
Zdenka
70
Hi
Not sure if I’m on track here but I did all the above and the video doesent play. The html I’m using is to a file in youtube – does it work for these?
Thanks
71
Hi Sean,
you have to link to a particular video file ( .flv, .mp4, …), linking to a youtube site won’t work.
Zdenka
72
When I first installed your plugin for a client, it worked perfectly during testing. Now, however, it is only playing audio and not the video for mp4s. If I paste the link to the mp4 into the browser, it plays both audio and video.
One example of a video is:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/creatingwealthvideopodcast/~5/5KiJ7esujWE/FiscallyFitJasonHarman.mp4
Do you have any suggestions?
73
Hey Zdenka…
Here’s one I can’t reproduce (and you’ll see why in a second):
Go to http://www.sattestpreptips.com/109/ … should play just fine when you click on the video area.
I’m told (by the person I built the site for) that if you go to the same page through the AOL browser, that the video doesn’t play (I don’t have an AOL account).
Any ideas?
Thanks for your time.
74
Thanks for this beta it appears to work very well. Any chance of making HTML5 the default and Flash the fallback?
75
Works ok on my iPhone 4, although video was a little jerky even on fast WiFi connection…
76
Hi Penny,
this is probably a coding issue. Flowplayer is able to play mp4 files, however not all codecs are supported. If you’re having troubles try to use another codec when saving your video, or use the flv format.
Zdenka
77
Hi Jeff,
at the moment the HTML5 support is turned on only for mobile browsers. Right now, we are not thinking on turning the HTML 5 option as the default one, because all the features that we have for Flowplayer work only for Flowplayer and not for the HTML5 video player.
If you like customize your version of plugin, you can add more supported browsers, just add their user agents into the fv-wordpress-flowplayer/view/frontend-head.php on line 8, into the array $aUserAgents.
Zdenka
78
Hi,
I have installed the Plugin at my WordPress Installation, it´s perfect. But I hat a question.
How can I loop the video? I had a mp4 film, it works very good, but the film doesn´t loop.
Sorry for the bad englisch, I`am from Germany. :-)
Phil
79
Hi Phil,
this plugin does not support looping of videos.
Zdenka
80
Works great so far. Installed your beta plugin in one of my test WordPress sites, and I can view playback and MP4 hosted at Amazon S3 on an iPhone 4 with iOs 4.2 installed. The WordPress install is 3.0.4
81
Attempted to view my test page (same as referred to in my prior comment) on my iPad today. Won’t display on the iPad – gives me an error of “need flash player”. iPad is running version iOS 4.2.1
82
Hi Shamus,
thanks for testing!
We just did a little research and it seems that Apple modified html5 media support in the 4.2 update of iOS.
It’s great you provided us with details about your iOS, helped with the problem identification. We’ll see what we can do about this problem. Thanks a lot for pointing this out!
Zdenka
83
Hi Steven,
We tried FV Flowplayer in AOL Explorer(v1.5), which we found free to download online, and the video you posted was playing.
Could you maybe provide some more details about the browser? Otherwise we are unable to help.
Zdenka
84
How can I insert a custom logo (e.g. my company’s branding) over videos? I know it’s possible in the standalone version of Flowplayer and I have purchased a commercial license. Any ideas?
85
Hi Trenton,
we’re sorry but this option is not possible to set in FV Flowplayer.
Zdenka
86
Hi Zdenka,
I’d like to enable this feature. It should be relatively straightforward for people with commercial licenses.
Thanks.
87
You didn’t say what we need to do if we are already using FV WordPress Flowplayer. I attempted to install the HTML5 beta and it failed. I don’t want to screw up my other videos on my blog using the previous version, but would like to test the beta version to see if it plays nicely with WPtouch 2.1
88
Hi Ron,
could you please be more specific about what has failed when you tried to install this version of plugin?
If you don’t want to replace your previous version use ftp to backup this old version, and if you do not like the new one, just upload back the previous one.
Zdenka
89
What exactly do I back up via FTP?
I believe it told me it failed to install because the folders already existed.
Do you know if this new HTML version will work with the WPtouch plugin? This is a deal breaker if it doesn’t.
90
Hi Ron,
Yes, this HTML5 support works with WPtouch plugin.
Regarding your test, you should backup the /wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer directory, or you can for example just rename that directory to something else, let’s say fv-wordpress-flowplayer-old. Then you can upload this new plugin. When you don’t like it just uninstall/delete the new old and rename the fv-wordpress-flowplayer-old back to fv-wordpress-flowplayer.
Don’t forget to activate/deactivate the plugins as you are changing them.
Zdenka
91
Well, I took the plunge and all seems to be working great on my Flash enabled computer, and my iPhone and iPad via WPtouch.
Now the only thing missing is to get a image or splash image to appear over the player while viewing on the iPHone or iPad.
If anyone has an Android, I would sure appreciate it if you would test this page to seen if my videos play. On the iPad or iPhone I have to wait for the play buttons to appear over the player, with isn’t too bad, it’s just if I had a splash screen showing while waiting for the play button that would be nice. Here’s the link.
http://rpriest.com/blog/2010/08/morgan-kyle/
92
I have the flowplayer working in my wordpress blog.. however, I have uploaded my videos (too lare for wp media upload) to a videos file in my wp-content file.
But, I can not find them when I open the insert Flowplayer icon. It only asks for the video name and does not accept whatever I put in. I have moved the videos to several different files, but still no luck. so my question is:
When I open the widget “f” in post editor, what is the default location? Where should I move my videos to? I would really appreciate your help, I have been working on this nonstop for 2 days and I have customers waiting for these videos.
Thank you
Wanda
93
Hi there,
is it possible to reactivate/show the splash screen once the video playback has finished? Where would be a good place to start for a modification, in case it’s not a built in short code?
Thanks for your great work!
Jens
94
Hi Jens,
this functionality is not implemented yet. If you feel like doing it, then it would require some additional coding in models/flowplayer-frontend.php, probably modifying $popup_contents around line 84, and maybe also the window.flowplayer(‘wpfp_$hash’).onFinish function which is on the line 88.
Thanks for your suggestion, we will consider adding this feature in the future.
Zdenka
95
Hi Ron and everybody else wondering about splash screens in HTML5. Good news, we’ll add this feature in the next release.
Looking forward to hear from you how HTML5 support works for you!
Zdenka
96
That’s good to hear!
I’ve heard from a friend with an Android that my HTML5 videos under HTML5 support does not work on his phone. That’s not good ;(
97
Hey Zdenka, the newest version of the plugin works in my browsers and on the iPad and iPhones I have with OS 4.2.1. It would be great if that play button could come up fast – not sure if that is something under control of the player or if that is a hosting issue…
98
Hi Shamus,
Thanks for testing. Unfortunately the speed with which the play button shows up is not under our control, as you said it’s the hosting and the speed of your connection. However we’ll be adding the splash screen functionality, so hopefully it will cover this problem.
Zdenka
99
Hi Ron,
looking into this Android issue, is seems there’s one more thing that can be done on our end – we’re gonna test it.
But Androids seems to we very sensitive to the codecs used, you might want to check this site on the Android device: http://html5test.com/, it will tell you which codecs are supported on that device.
Generally, there’s no codec that would play on every device, which in practice means that you would need two or three different versions of the same video if you want it to play everywhere.
Zdenka
100
“Generally, there’s no coded that would play on every device…”
How does Vimeo and YouTube do it?
101
Hi Ron,
I’ve seen solutions when there were multiple formats for the same video (myvideo.mp4, myvideo.flv, etc) and the format which is suitable is used. HTML5 supports this and it allows to include multiple sources into one video tag (http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html). This way it is probable that at least one format/codec fits. You can read more about this here: Video that plays everywhere.
Using multiple video formats would be somehow hard to manage within one FV Flowplayer shortcode. Also, you would have to create and upload those videos. At this moment we are not implementing this functionality, we’ll see about this in the future.
Zdenka
102
“Using multiple video formats would be somehow hard to manage within one FV Flowplayer shortcode. Also, you would have to create and upload those videos. At this moment we are not implementing this functionality, we’ll see about this in the future.”
Oh I totally agree, nor do I want to encode and upload more than one video. Is that what Vimeo and Youtube does? Do they encode more than one video to play on different devices? One for the iPad, one for the Android, one for the iPhone, one for the desktop computer, one for slow DSL one for fast broadband… the list could go on…
103
Yes, I believe this is what YouTube does with the videos. I assume they do several automatic conversions when the video is uploaded. Just take that you can choose the resolution of the video – so they do have different sizes of videos available.
Also, when watching the video in Safari on desktop computer, it is in flv format, but on iPod/iPad it is in mp4 (flv won’t play).
Zdenka
104
Well, I’ll be looking forward to see the other possible solution you have that may allow Android and iPhone/iPad view the same video. You guys are smart I know you can pull it off. Thanks for your had work, I’ve done a lot of testing on other similar WP apps to display HTML5 videos and you solution seems to be the best so far!
Maybe you can ask CNN how they do it. It blows me away how you see a small image on their page, tap on it, and it blows up to a bigger size pushing the pages text down making room for it. Then sets there waiting for you to press the play button. Works the same way on both the iPhone or iPad. Very cool! Check it out on this page:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/18/arizona.shooting/index.html
105
Hi Zdenka,
Is there a way to provide an image in the video player box from the video that is posted? As it is now, a visitor to my site just sees a black box with the iSkysoft logo and an arrow button. Not ideal.
Any ideas?
106
I just downloaded Folioplayer WYSIWYG so that I could add a splash page onto my videos using the FV WordPress Folioplayer. Now the f icon has totally disappeared from my WordPress post page so I can’t even post a video let alone a splash page for it.
What do I do? Do I have to adjust any settings in Foliopress WYSIWYG?
Also, can you be more specific as to how to modify the coding on the frontend of the flowplayer to reactivate the splash screen once the the video playback has completed?
Thanks.
107
Hi George,
you can use the ‘splash’ tag in the shortcode to show an image. But this image has to be uploaded, we do not support showing up a frame from the actual video.
I am a little confused why are you seeing iSkysoft logo there, this certainly didn’t come from our plugin.
Zdenka
108
Hi George,
the F icon is now in the WYSIWYG toolbar just between the image icon for inserting images and the icon for displaying source.
I am afraid I can’t explain here what exactly do you have to do to reactivate splash screen, it requires more changes and understanding of the code. But we’ll be adding this feature probably in the next release.
Zdenka
109
[...] 16.) WordPress Flowplayer [...]
110
Hi Zdenka,
I sent you a message last week but still have gtten no response. My question is about adding a splash page to precede my video. The info from FV Flowplayer suggests the following:
[flowplayer src='example.flv' splash=image.jpg]
I added a custom image with the same dimensions as my video to the video file where the flash video is located. It looks like this:
[flowplayer src=http://url/video/xxxx.flv' width=300 height=240 splash=http://url/video/xxxx.jpg]
I have also tried:
[flowplayer src=http://url/video/xxxx.flv' width=300 height=240 splash=xxxx.jpg]
NOTE: The code that’s currently working for the video playback is:
[flowplayer src=http://url/video/xxxx.flv' width=300 height=240]
But I still don’t get a splash page. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
George
111
Hi George,
I’m sorry we haven’t received any message with this question. However, your shortcodes looks ok, so I am not sure what can be a problem there. Could you maybe provide us with the full shortcode you’re trying to use, with the full paths? We will check if there is some bug in the plugin related to your shortcode.
Zdenka
112
Hi Wanda,
I am glad you managed to install Fv WordPress Flowplayer, I’m sorry your comments were marked as spam so we found them just now.
To your question, the add video wizard will never offer you the option to select a video from a list, if you uploaded the video via ftp, you have to know the exact location of the video and type it in there manually, in your case it might be something like wp-content/videos/yourvideo.flv or similar.
Zdenka
113
Hi,
I LOVE this plugin! Great for displaying videos (inside a WP membership site) sitting in my Amazon S3 account. THANKS for making it available.
Question – how can I get rid of the centering? I looked for css code someone mentioned back in 2009 (above) but could not find anything.
Thanks for any assistance you can provide!
B
114
When I press the Embed “f” i get this in the top of the popup to add a video:
analyze(realpath($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .$strUpVideo)); 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); } ?>
115
Hi,
I cannot seem to get the player working to a sidebar widget. Tried using the code after reading FAQs:
echo apply_filters(‘the_content’, ‘[flowplayer src=yourvideo.mp4 width=240 height=320]‘);
I assume you copy in text widget and replace the src path. Anything else I need to do.
The player works fine in page/post.
Thanks.
116
Hi Hitendra,
the code ‘echo apply_filters..’ can be used when placing the video into the template.
If you want to insert the video into a widget let’s say via Text Widget, just place the normal shortcode there, just as you’re placing into post.
Zdenka
117
Hi Bentley,
We’re glad you like our plugin!
The centering is set at the very top of the flowplayer.css file, in the flowplayer_container class.
It is the line “margin: 0 auto 0 auto !important;”.
Comment the line out to get default alignment.
Zdenka
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Hi Zdenka,
Thank you for your response. That is exactly what I did in the first instance – inserted the same code in sidebar widget (text widget. It came with error message “200. Stream Not Found..”
Any other thoughts.
Thanks,
Hitendra
119
Thanks very much!
Worked like a charm :-)
B
120
Hi Zdenka,
If it is of any help – my vids are on s3Amazon. But then the same code for the player works when inserted in page/post and not on sidebar widget.
Fantastic plugin! If you can sort this problem, it will help others as well.
Thanks,
Hitendra
121
Hi Hitendra,
try to use single quotes ‘ instead of double ” in the shortcode. If this does not help try it without the quotes. Hope this helps.
Zdenka
122
Hi Zdenka,
Good news is I got it to work. Really strange though! I used the same vid – but this time uploaded to a different s3 ‘bucket’. A bit of trial and error and it worked. I won’t even try to figure it out. Inserting in the page/post is no problem – but it is a bit ‘touchy’ when it comes to sidebar (text widget).
Thanks.
Hitendra
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Hi Hitendra,
I am very glad you made it work. This is valuable user experience, so thanks very much for sharing!
Zdenka
124
I’m looking for a player for my WordPress site and wondering if this is it.
The movei is 750mb flv. Wondered if the size, format, etc. matters? Thanks
125
Hi Alex,
of course, flv format is supported as written above, but regarding the file size this mostly depends on your hosting.
Zdenka
126
Hi Mark,
This looks like a configuration issue. I’ve sent you an email about hands on help troubleshooting your install.
Thanks for trying FV Flowplayer!
Making the web work for you, Alec
127
Hi Jens,
we included the reactivation of the splash image after the video finishes playing. The release just went out, you are welcome to check it out.
Just include the “splashend=show” into the shortcode. Please notice that the image has to have the same dimensions as the video, as there is no stretching applied.
Zdenka
128
How do we make the video shareable? I’d like to offer an embed button. THanks.
129
Hi Sheri,
there’s an option to display the popup when the video finish playing. This popup contains also the ‘Share’ button which displays the link to the video.
We do not support embedding as such.
Zdenka
130
Hi Sheri,
check out our User guide, scroll down to the end of the article.
When you add popup=”Would you like to share this video?” to your shortcode, the popup will appear when the video finishes playing.
Zdenka
131
Entering a Commercial Key does not work, because Flowplayer has their keys hardcoded to a specific version of their software (i.e. the latest version).
I exchanged the 3.1.5 commercial player with the current (3.2.5) player and changed the path reference in models/flowplayer.php line 110 to reflect the change :
define(‘PLAYER’, RELATIVE_PATH.’/flowplayer/commercial/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.5.swf’);
Flowplayer will now play just fine on the WordPress settings page, without branding (which is good), but on all WordPress pages that worked with the free version there’s now is a black hole instead of the player (which is bad). I’ve looked for other references that would need changing, but no luck so far.
Any help would be appreciated! (for the time being, I’ve reverted to the free player).
132
Hi Allerbe,
we just checked the 3.2.5 version, seems to be working ok.
When you uploaded the new flowplayer file, did you renamed it to flowplayer.commercial-3.2.5.swf?
The name of the file should be the same as the one you filled on the line 110.
It also seems that Flowplayer upgraded also the flowplayer.controls file, so be sure you upload this file as well – don’t change it’s name.
Thanks for your experience with entering the keys! We’ll prepare a guide on how to add the Flowplayer files.
Zdenka
133
Flowplayer gave me a 3.1.5 key, which worked, but I’m running 3.2.5 now, with its associated key, and it now seems to work. Not sure what happened… Maybe it’s the controls file, or the naming of the controls file. Anyway, it appears to be working just fine. thanks Zdenka!
Now if I can only get rid of the gradient canvas, and get my logo in…
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Hi Allerbe,
the gradient is an image in images/finished.png. You can replace this with an image of your choice.
We will prepare this option for the next release, we’ll let you know about it.
I’m glad the new version works for you now,
Zdenka
135
Great Plugin!
…but quI can’t get vids to play in WP 3.0.5.
wp 3.0.4 seems to work fine.
136
Sorry for so many of my postings this morning.
I got it working great! I just have two issues.
1) My video is going to be 480×360, and I made my thumbnail the same…there’s a black line on the left and top. How do I get rid of that?
You can see what I mean here…
http://www.bcchurchlive.com/?p=187
2) I tried and tried and can’t get it to autoplay. I’ve set it to true in the settings and in the code, but it’s still not auto playing. How do I fix this?
Thanks,
Robert
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Hi Robert,
the first problem you having is your own css. Sorry, I can’t fix that for you.
The second issue: just remove the splash screen if you want to run autoplay. You can’t have autoplay and splash at the same time, splash screen has the priority here, so if you used splash, it is placed over the video and autoplay is supressed.
Zdenka
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Zdenka,
Thank you so much. I can just delete the splash screen and it will solve both problems. It’s not a needed thing anyways.
Thank you so very much for such a quick response, as well as this video player.
Love you guys,
Robert
139
Hi Steve,
we checked the WP 3.0.5 version, and our plugin runs just fine. Your problem is probably related to something else than just the upgrade of WP.
Zdenka
140
Thanks Zdenka, it looks like I have some problem with the theme. The plug works fine with other themes, other FP plugs and my current theme work fine…but your plug and my current theme are not working together.
Any clues? If not I will probably just go with another theme.
141
I am using WorPress 3.0.5. I have uploaded and activated FV WordPress Flowplayer. After filling out the dialogue box, however, nothing happens when I click on the “Insert” button except that the button flickers.
142
Hi,
I want to play a video on one of my pages, but when I press play, the video starts to load, but it doesn’t start to play. I waited for hours, but nothing, it’s still loading and not playing. The video file is compressed, an h.264 mov file and is 6 mb in size. What can be the problem?
Thanks :)
143
Hi Aron,
the video has probably some problem with encoding, try to encode the video once again, preferably to mp4 or flv format.
Zdenka
144
If I use the new feature to use the WP Media Library, do I need to use the absolute url to access the video or is there a way to upload directly to the default “videos” directory using the Media Library?
thx… dave
145
Can the black html pop-up screen be changed to other colors?
I see the code is in flowplayer-frontend.php but I can’t readily find where the screen color is defined. Can you point me to the correct line number?
thx… dave
146
Hello Dave,
yes, you can insert videos using the WordPress Media Uploader, after you hit the Insert FV WP Flowplayer icon in either Foliopress WYSIWYG or the standard WordPress editor.
The Media Library works with the WordPress Media Library directory (which uses wp-content/uploads/ as a default).
WordPress supports only one directory for all the uploads, so it won’t go into /videos, unless you change that directory in Settings -> Media. But that would affect other uploads too. We are trying to figure our a way of changing this path for the videos without user intervention and without breaking older uploads.
Thanks,
Martin
147
Hello Dave,
I added the answer into the FAQ section, check out the “How can I style the popup?” question.
Hi Grady,
It looks like you need hands on help with FV Flowplayer install on your server. Please contact us directly for an installation and configuration.
Thanks,
Martin
148
Hi Zdenka and others,
Unfortunately, changing images/finished.png into a full black image has NOT solved the problem. I still have a gradient background, which is especially distracting when going full screen using the ‘fit’ option.
Also, the background of the control bar (which in my custom player has a gradient) is colored flat in FV WordPress Flowplayer. This more a cosmetic problem, but it’s strange that while other features of the custom player (timeline color, etc) are left intact, the control bar background would be overridden by a flat color.
149
Hi, this plugin looks great, but I cant seem to find out if it supports live streaming rtmp? I have a wowza on ec2 but cant seem to find out if the plugin supports it, or if there is a way to use the live plugin from flowplayer.
Regards,
Christian
150
I’ve updated from Flowplayer version 1.0.6 to 1.2.4. and now have a problem.
All the mp4 videos on my site worked fine with 1.0.6.
Now while the audio is playing, the video frame (box) displays this message “300: Player initialization failed: ReferenceError #1069″. The frame/box and the control bar show just fine.
Even the demo video on Flowplayer’s admin menu panel has this problem.
I’m using WordPress version 3.1, but I also had this same issue under the previous version of WP.
Also, I installed the plugin using the manual download zip-file method and the problem is the same as when I used the WP automated installation method.
Please advise me how to get version 1.2.4 to work properly.
151
Hi Christian,
we’re not supporting live streaming at the moment, sorry.
Zdenka
152
Hi Jeff,
we haven’t experienced this problem so far, so it is hard to tell what went wrong. Could you maybe point us to a site where this problem appeared?
Thanks,
Zdenka
153
I would also like to be able to disable the “Play again” feature (as requested above). In some situations I want to just play the video and leave it on the last frame.
There was some reference to doing this on the Flowplayer site – but the examples shown (javascript to alter the opacity level of the onfinish function) do not seem to be easily applied to this plugin (or at least I cannot see how to modify the plugin).
Is there any chance you can look at this?
Thanks
154
Hi Liam,
at this moment we’re not thinking about implementing this feature, but we might come back to this sometimes later.
Zdenka
155
Hi,
I just installed your plugin and I don’t really know how to connect it with Amazon S3. Actually I don’t know neither S3 nor your plugin too well, both were recommended to me.
When I want to insert the URL of the video from S3 into the post, it shows a hyperlink on the site (not the video screen) and when I click on the hyperlink it says that the video is used by another program (while no other applications are open on my computer).
Can you show me to the right direction here? I know this is really a basic question, but I am new in this.
Thanks,
erika
156
I don’t understand how I can provide both a flash .flv for most browsers with a fallback to a .mov or .mp4 for HTML5 on mobile devices. What code do i use in the tag for this?
157
Hi Mark,
with the current version of plugin you can upload only one video, there is currently not place for using multiple videos.
If you use mp4, it would play with normal browsers as well as with HTML5 on iphones, ipods…
Zdenka
158
Hi Erika,
our plugin work so far only with direct links to videos – the link should look like http://somedomain.com/some/folders/yourvideo.mp4. I am not sure which links you tried to use, and how they turned up to be hyperlinks. An example would help in your case.
Zdenka
159
I know the FAQ says no, but with the latest version of FV Flowplayer, wouldn’t it be possible to embed videos hosted on S3? Isn’t a direct hyperlink to a video file?
160
So I’ve read about a few people getting s3 videos to play in the latest version of FV Flowplayer. Is that true?
161
Hi TS,
if you have a direct link to a video hosted on S3 such as http://your.s3.amazonaws.com/video.mp4
then this videos of course can be played in our plugin.
At the moment we do not support private videos, password protected videos, streaming and other ways of sharing the video.
Direct link to a video file should work, but if the link doesn’t contain the name of video file then it won’t play.
Zdenka
162
Hi TS,
your question is answered here.
Zdenka
163
Thanks for clarifying that. Could I protect them with a bucket policy that restricts access to my S3 files and only allows requests from mydomain.com? I was able to get this sort of functionality working in JW Player a few months ago except for Firefox which doesn’t (for some reason) include referrer header information in requests from the Flash file for JW Player.
This might be a little contrived but do you think this type of setup would work; does Flowplayer send that information? Also, are there any plans on including support for private S3 video embeds?
164
Hi TS,
the first functionality is not build in our plugin, and at the moment we are not planning to add this.
On the other hand, yes we are interested in adding the support for private video embeds from S3. However we are looking for a sort of support here: we need somebody who will provide an access to his S3 account, with couple of short videos for testing.
If you are willing to help us this way, we’ll be happy to initiate the development of this feature.
Zdenka
165
The icon for adding a Flowplayer is missing in QuickPress mode. See my screenshot. Probably just a minor issue. The missing icon seems to point at ‘https://calle.nl/wp-admin/RELATIVE_PATH/images/icon.png'. Oh. I have enforced SSL for my WordPress installation, perhaps the icon is there in straight http:// mode, I wouldn’t know since I haven’t bothered disabling SSL enforce just to see how it shows in http:// mode.
166
Hey guys, is there a way that I can have this FV player run on a continuous loop.
Thanks…
167
Hi Calle,
Thanks for your comment, we’ll have a look at that.
Hi Adam,
sorry, we do not support the loop of the video.
Zdenka
168
I upgraded wordpress to 3.1.1 (previously 3.0.4) and it seems that using short codes in widgets is broken.
The plugin is at v 1.2.6
The site is: http://thenutritionhotspot.com
I did put shortcode into a page and then used Firebug to extract HTML to get the video the size that I wanted it (it was defaulting to plugin defaults), but this is totally inconvenient.
169
Hi,
Thanks so much for making this brilliant plugin available. I’m having a few problems with the recent update though :-)…
I updated the plugin today to version 1.2.6 and now the video within a widget on the home page isn’t displaying at the size I have stipulated in the short code (533 x 300). Instead it is getting automatically resized to 320×240. Also the splash image no longer shows. The site is: http://www.gradam.ie
There’s another weird thing that I can’t fix that is there from the earlier version as well. In Posts and Pages the size given in the shortcode is kept and shown on the live pages but the size of the splash image gets squashed and leaves about a 20px band of grey on the right hand side. I’ve tried to find what is causing this but no luck so far. Eg: http://www.gradam.ie/index.php/category/oirfidigh/
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
170
Hi Mick,
we’ll check what’s wrong with the video in widgets, thanks for bringing this issue up.
The other problem is related to your theme, please check the css for images (max-width).
Zdenka
171
Hi Virtually Marj,
thanks for reporting we’ll check this.
Zdenka
172
Hi Virtually Marj,
check out the new 1.2.7 version, the problem with widgets should be fixed there. Thanks again for reporting this!
Zdenka
173
Hi Mick,
check out the new 1.2.7 version, the problem with widgets should be fixed there. Thanks again for reporting this!
Zdenka
174
Thanks Zdenka,
I’ll give it a whirl and report back.
~ Marj
175
The upgraded plugin solved the problem. Thanks so much for your responsiveness!
176
Thanks Zdenka – the widget is working great again now and I fixed the splash size through the css.
Thank you!
177
Hey I downloaded the latest version of fv wordpress flowplayer, but I’m still experiencing the same problem as Dave’s. I think we should manually change the admin on the backend file to wp-admin. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
178
Hi Mohammad,
not sure what you’re talking about, Daves problem was about something different and it is already fixed.
Please do not rename core files of the plugin unless you know what you’re doing.
Zdenka
179
I cant thank you enough for the plugin, my website is primarily video content and I like the idea of being able to change a setting, and not have to do it per videos embed code..
That being said, I would like to make a small wish list for any future updates that I think would be very beneficial.
More default settings, so if I want to display certain text at the end of ALL videos, I can set that and not have to insert it in each post.
Somehow integrate the plugins from flowplayer, such as the share plugin.
Set default height and width, this can be done in a flowplayer-frontend.php in the folder called Models, but I really like easy settings like you currently have in the plugin settings page.
This is a very important plugin for me, it takes so much work away that I dont have to do now.. I love it. Thank you!
180
Hi Chris,
we are really happy that you like our plugin. Thanks for all those suggestions from your wish list.
We will definitely think about the default width and height setting, this is a good point.
More default settings – we’ll see about this.
About other plugins integration, well this is more complicated, as there’s no way that we can build some default plugin integration. FV WordPress Flowplayer is built to be user friendly – only simple shortcodes are needed. However this leaves all the configuration of plugins on our shoulders, so we actually have to prepare all the code for each plugin separately. This is the main reason why we do not plan to support Flowplayer plugins in general.
Thanks again for your comment!
Zdenka
181
Love the plugin but I can’t seem to get the splash image to show at the end. I added splashend=show in the code. The front image shows but not showing at the end. What am I doing wrong?
182
Hello,
Awesome Plugin – saved me hours of reading on how to get this thing configured from scratch for my client!
But, I do have a few issues:
1. splashend=show is not working for me at all – what could be wrong?
2. How can I change the “Play Again” button and “Play” button images?
My client does have a commercial license.
Thanks,
Tina
183
I have trouble getting rid of the gradient background. (commercial license).
Zdenka suggested: “the gradient is an image in images/finished.png. You can replace this with an image of your choice.”
I have exchanged it. It’s now black, no alpha.
Flowplayer background still is a gradient…
184
Hi Tina and Allerbe,
the play again button is built in the Flowplayer and this cannot be changed.
The background should be changed also in the backend of WP in the FV WordPress Flowplayer settings – the canvas option.
The play button that appears at the beginning is located in images/play.png, you can replace this with your own image – put the same name play.png so you do not have to change the code.
Hope this helps,
Zdenka
185
Hi Gregg,
we just released a new version 1.2.8 where this problem should be fixed.
Zdenka
186
Hi Tina,
the splash image at the end should be fixed in the latest release 1.2.8, please check it out.
Zdenka
187
Thank you!
188
Zdenka thanks for advising me how to switch-off the controlbar. It worked !
Now I face problem whether I can switch-off the functionality that enables user to pause the video by clicking on video area ?
The point here is that i want to use this plugin for playing my videosalesletter that will start playing on autoplay and my prospect customer cannot have the possibility to pause until the end of video is reached.
Thanks for your expert insights.
189
Hi Zdenka,
I’ve been using your plugin for about 6 months now and it’s great! I just upgraded the FV Flowplayer plugin to version 1.2.7 and I’m running WP 3.1.2 and I’ve just installed the AdStreamer whcih is working well.
But I’m having trouble getting the splash page feature to run (which ran well with the previous plugin version). I’ve checked that the size of the splash file is the same as the video and the paths are identical but still no splash page.
What am I doing wrong?
190
Hi Marian,
this feature cannot be turned off in the plugin.
The only thing I can suggest is that you place a div above the player, assign some z-index to it via css which will make the video non-clickable. This however would prevent the user to play the video again as well…
Zdenka
191
Hi George,
Could you please post a link to the video with this problem? We tested the splash image and it worked, so we couldn’t see the problem.
Thanks!
Zdenka
192
I really like using the plugin, but I’m finding on my page it loads really slowly. Any idea how I can improve this? The video is hosted on Amazon S3.
I have auto buffering set to “true” At the least it would be nice if I could display a progress bar or something so that people don’t think it’s an error on the site. Thanks
193
Hi Randy,
we had several people who claimed their videos to load slowly, we found out that this is probably because of the encoding.
Please try to encode the video using different settings, check out the last question in our FAQ.
Zdenka
194
http://amazinglycreative.com/test-splash/
with this plugin rocks! …but only in firefox. All other browsers, no love. Even placing the movie in the body of a post,
http://amazinglycreative.com/effective-web-sites/black-canyon-consulting-group/
same thing.
What am I doing wrong?
195
Hi Bob,
it seems like there’s a conflict some some other plugin, probably in javascript. I can see the video broken in all browsers, even in Firefox.
Btw the shortcode written above the broken video is not ours, I guess you have multiple players installed which might also cause trouble.
We’re testing FV WordPress Flowplayer in all major browsers so we know it shouldn’t be problem there.
Maybe you can try to turn off some other plugins to find out what is causing the conflict. Please let us know if you find out.
Zdenka
196
Hi,
Awesome player. Works beautifully in a post.
Now I want to put the player in the side widget. If I just put the shortcode in it, it doesn’t play. What do I need to paste in there to make it work?
Thanks so much!
Christine
197
Hi Zdenka,
The video using flowplayer is at prettytough.com. You’ll see a blank white box on the right side of the page. If you click on the box (where the spalsh image should be) you’ll see an ad (using AdStreamer) and then the video will play. But no splash page.
I’m using fv flowplayer version 1.2.7, OpenAdStreamer version 0.5.0-rc2.swf and wordpress version 3.1.2.
I can get the splash and video to work or the ad and video to work but not all three at the same time.
Any suggestions?
198
Hi Christine,
if you’re using the text widget, then you need just the normal shortcode to be placed there.
If you want to place the video in the sidebar directly in the template you’ll need to wrap in into a php code, see our FAQ How do I insert flowplayer object outside the post, for example to a sidebar? for details.
Zdenka
199
Hi George,
I would say that the OpenAdStreamer interferes with the div that is supposed to hold the splash image. It is hard to tell from your site as you have autoplay turned on, so there wouldn’t be splash anyway.
If the OpenAdStreamer removes our div, than we cannot do anything to put the splash back in there, as we cannot manage other Flowplayer plugins codes.
Zdenka
200
Thanks so much Zdenka! I had placed the shortcode in there just like you said and it had shown up (box with splash immage and button) but wouldn’t play. Now I realize that may have happened because I had left the video to be replaced in there. Maybe that created some conflict? Anyways, when I re-did it and deleted the other code, it worked beautifully.
Thanks so much for a great and easy to use player AND for this AWESOME support with the user guide, FAQ, super fast responses. And all of it FREE. Really: THANKS!!
Christine
201
Hi Christine,
Glad we could help you.
It’s not really free. It costs me a ton of money every month.
If you have found FV Flowplayer and our help useful, there is a nice donation button right here: http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer
Making the web work for you, Alec
202
Hi
I have uploaded a video using FTP into /uploads/2011/05 folder. I have used another plug-in called ‘Add to Server’ to make it visible in the Media Library. When I go to play the video after going through the FlowPlayer Add to Post process, it won’t play. Is there a limit to the size of a video that can be played?
The code that gets inserted is
[flowplayer src='http://www.shoeihelmetreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Shoei-RF1100-Review.mp4' width=640 height=360]
Cheers
Keith
Cheers
Keith
203
Hi Keith,
this seems to me like a problem not related to our plugin. Can you somehow verify that the video is really in the folder /wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ ?
We cannot play the video either from that location, so I would say that your ‘Add to Server’ plugin maybe placed the video somewhere else. Also try to check if the file name is correct. The best way would be to check it directly via FTP.
Zdenka
204
I’ll nudge my client to donate! Really appreciate your work!
205
Thanks Christine!
206
when I go to add a video and am given the option to open media library to upload a new video I am sked ‘are you sure you want to do this?’- please try again and then it sends me back to the previous screen??
Thanks
Brigitte
207
Hi Zdenka:
How do I disable the “share” function at the end of the video? I want the splash screen to pop up with a “play again” message, but I don’t want the share function.
Thanks!
208
Hi Stuart,
there is no option to just remove the share button from the final pop up box.
If you want just a simple play again button, then disable popup box entirely in the settings in teh admin section, and you’ll get just ‘Play again’ at the end of video.
Zdenka
209
Hi Brigitte,
this sounds like a conflict with some other plugin that uses media library as well, because we do not have his kind of question in our plugin. We neither experienced this problem before.
Maybe you can try to disable other plugins to find out if the problem disappears, please let us know if you find something.
Zdenka
210
I am trying to use Flow Player that comes with my new site them Prestige. I seem to be having a problem embedding youtube video’s and getting FP to play them. I keep coming up with a 200 netstream not found.
I’ve tried taking the ” out and or changing it to ‘ with no avail. Any other options would be great.
http://thoffonline.com/?page_id=1364 There is a link where the video is embedded.
this is the short code I used.
[dcs_player name="video_ex4" w="280" h="178"
float="left" margin="0px 15px 5px 0px"
desc="Evans first ride without training wheels" url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fW_KotE-z4"]
211
Hi Tony,
you’re not using our plugin, the shortcode you pasted it not ours, please refer your question to Prestige Dark Video Player. Our plugin is FV WordPress Flowplayer and the shortcode starts with [flowplayer ...]
But to give you a hint, the url you’re trying to paste is a link to the page where is the video. This way it won’t play. You have to link directly to the video, not to the page – your url should end with .mp4, .flv or some other video extension.
Zdenka
212
I’m having a couple of issues with the plugin.
First if I try to add using the shortcode in the editor this is what’s inserted:
FCKFVWPFlowplayerPlaceholder
No video
If I try to manually add the shortcode:
[flowplayer src=http://www.hifisocialwebmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/facebookfeatures.mp4]
Or even try to add the shortcode with a video folder that I created:
[flowplayer src=facebookfeatures.mp4]
I get a 200, Stream not found, NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound, clip: ‘[Clip]‘http://www.hifisocialwebmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/facebookfeatures.mp4,code."
213
I am looking for an flv auto player. I have created the flv in Pinnacle editor and want to have it start on homepage automatically. Can your addin do this.
I have sent you a website with exactly what I want to have happen.
http://www.homefinishers.net/bathrooms-shower-bases.html
Thanks
Scott
214
Hi Scott,
Our player supports autoplay, but it doesn’t support looping.
Zdenka
215
Hi Nancy,
please try to check the post content in the source editor, you probably inserted the shortcode into the post with some hidden formatting or code which causes the error. The first shortcode should be fine.
About your first problem. We do support the default wordpress editor, and we also support Foliopress WYSIWYG editor. Which editor do you use for editing your posts? It might happen that if ou use some other editor, the shortcodes are not inserted properly.
Zdenka
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Thanks for your response.
I’m using the default wordpress editor and will have to figure that out. I can just manually enter the shortcode in the meantime.
The problem is solved. It seems that after publishing the post some extra code would get added, so I just needed to go back and delete the extra code and save again. Works great now.
Also started using flowplayer with MaxCDN and is much faster for displaying video.
Thanks again
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Hi Nancy,
I’m glad to hear that!
Thanks for the tip about MaxCDN.
Zdenka
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How do we disable the popup in the admin section? I have the popup set to false in the admin section but share is still showing up when the video finishes. I just want it to give the option to play again.
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Hi Elke,
For popup not to show you have to have the popup disabled in the admin section, and also your shortcode does not have to include the popup=”" part.
Are these both criteria met and you’re still having popup displayed? Can you post us a link to an example please? (Along with the shortcode you used)
Thanks!
Zdenka
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I found what finally worked for me was to ensure that popup was false in the admin section (which is already was by default) and I also had to have the end splash screen turned off.
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Hi,
I have following problem. I have uploaded two videos (.flv) via FTP to video folder. First one, which is about 19 MB, works well. The second one,
which is about 36 MB, shows splash image, but when I click play button, I get white box and time is showing 00:00 00:00. Is there a max file size or why the second video is not working?
The website is http://tngi.org/new/video-centre/
Thank you in advance!
Desta
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Hi Desta,
I checked your site and all videos can be played. The bottom video ‘Video title’ plays, but there’s only audio – this is probably issue of encoding. We don’t have any restrictions regarding the file size.
Zdenka
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Is there a parameter I could add that would make the video loop and start over without having to click the icon?
thanks! Great product~
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Hi Chris,
sorry we do not support looping of the video.
Zdenka
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Can I have an end splash screen and just a play again button (no share)?
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Hi Stuart,
sorry, buttons at the end are not configurable at the moment.
Zdenka
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Hi Zdenka,
Thanks for your quick reply. I have been trying few things without luck. That video works perfectly except on the website. I only get under 20 MB videos to work. Could this be some wordpress limit?
Desta
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Hi Desta,
I wouldn’t say that wordpress is limiting this, but it might be your hosting that have some limits.
We were able to play but larger videos in wordpress without any problems.
Zdenka
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Hi Zdenka,
Thanks I got it to work. You were right at the first place, the problem was with encoding. I used a video converter and now everything is working fine. Great plugin and especially thanks for this help forum!
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I’ve looked high and low for this functionality, but can’t seem to figure it out. I want to link to a video using an image on a page – when that image is clicked, the video would play… is this even possible?
For instance, I have a page with 4 button images. Each button, when clicked, would play the designated linked video.
Help? :-)
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Hi Amy,
I guess splash screen does exactly what you want. You just need a video and the image that should be displayed, please read the user guide and try it yourself to see if the splash screen is what you need.
Zdenka
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Hi there,
So far this plugin looks great and seems to be working well. One issue with the HTML 5 aspect is with the Firefox browser on Android (v4.0.2pre)- there is a large black box with a “play ” arrow on the bottom of the movie – but the circular play button is still there and does not go away after the video starts. I am assuming that this is a feature of HTML5. Is there a way to disable the HTML5 support until all browsers are equal?
My other question is regarding the width/height of the videos: It would be convenient to set default width/height as percentages rather than pixels? (Rather than having “px” just attached to the end of what is in the options boxes) I know most people may not want this – but it would be very handy when wanting one page show up on mobile browsers and desktops consistently. If you could just point me to the file to edit out the adding of the “px” in the style attribute of the <a> with class=”flowplayer_container” that would be great!
Thanks for the great plugin,
Jay
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Just to clarify the percentage reasoning – Since my layout is almost all fluid except for the body tag, I would like to have my videos almost always (almost) cover 100% of their <div>’s width at load time and then set the appropriate height value(default height isn’t as important as it would be determined by the aspect ratio).
After doing some testing with it – I see that this will take more to resolve than the percent width. It looks like it would be necessary to add a calculation to adjust the height as well, I didn’t notice the slight skewing before and assumed that height was auto adjusting.
I will rummage through the code and see if I can figure anything out – If you know where the best place to add in some changes, I would appreciate it greatly!
example page: http://onebrownshoe.com/45-2/ – That is set as if manually set for mobile only. On desktop video is too small (also top/bottom margins are much different on mobile than on desktop for some reason)
Thanks again,
Jay
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Hi,
Could you post a method on how we can manually implement flowplayer plugins? For example, I want to use your plugin to upload and embed my videos, but I also need to be able to use the flowplayer captions plugin to show subtitles.
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Hi Jay,
‘to disable HTML 5 until all browsers are equal’ – in that case we would never launch HTML5 support – browsers will never be equal, and by enabling HTML5 we’re trying to show the videos at least to those users who are able to see at least something.
About the width and height – you got it right in your second post – that is exactly the problem: that you do not know the height.
The width can be adjusted by percentage, however the height remains the problem as it needs to be defined.
Also for mobile devices, I guess everybody who can watches the video in fullscreen anyway…
Thanks for your comment!
Zdenka
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Hi Brian,
sorry we’re not thinking on posting a guide on this. Adding support for flowplayer plugins is not straightforward and it requires significant amount of coding at multiple places of the source code. Writing such a guide would therefore need to be a comprehensive programming guide which, as you hopefully understand, we’re not going to write.
Zdenka
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Zdenka,
Thank you for your quick reply. I know what you mean about the equal browsers bit – so frustrating when trying to do anything. However, in Firefox on Android the HTML5 bit actually works and you don’t have to watch the video in full screen but it actually plays in the page. That is where the problem comes in RE: the big black box with an arrow and the default circle “play” icon not disappearing when you begin to play the video. (I’m not sure if it matters but I am using wp-mobile-video-player and have 5 different source file formats).
I may still try to play around with some javascript to see if I can find a way to alter the height according to the ratio and width of the video, but for now I will make do with manually defining it.
Thanks for your help and have a great day!
Jay
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Is FV Flowplayer really HTTP 5 ready? I use WPTouch. Am I required to implement a workaround of some kind to get my videos to operate on my iPhone when I go to my site?
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Thanks, by the way.
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Hi Adolfo,
yes, FV WordPress Flowplayer is serving HTML5 video to all mobile devices. Whether the device supports HTML5 video is different question and we cannot guarantee that. Of course you have to use video that can be played on mobile devices (we recommend mp4, flv is not a good option – flash just won’t play)
iPhones, iPods support HTML5 video tags very well and the video plays without any problems with our plugin. Androids or Blackberry phones support HTML5 only partly, or not at all, therefore the video might have troubles playing.
Zdenka
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Hello, I try to use your plugins to stream file from a protected ftp server.
I try to insert it in the post (wordpress) in this mod:
[flowplayer src=ftp://username:password@server.com/path/to/the/file]
The player is loading but does not play any file. It says : 200, Stream not found…and I saw that he try to find the file on a location that include http://name of my site.com/ftp://username:password@server.com/path/to/the/file
How can I modify it to load the file from ftp server ?
Thank you for your answer.
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Hi Dorin,
at the moment we do not support logging into a password protected servers.
Zdenka
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I cannot stop the autoplay option for the video. This is the code do_shortcode([flowplayer src='https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/brightstartvideos/Tester+2.mp4' width=400 height=244 splash=http://server/projects/ananth/brightstart/wp-content/themes/bright/images/video.jpg]); , which i used in my wordpress blog.
Please Advise me….
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Hi Ananth,
you have probably autoplay set to true globally. Please check the settings for FV WordPress flowplayer in the admin section under Settings.
Zdenka
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Hi Zdenka,
i have changed the autoplay to false and autobuffering to ture in my admin panel. Now the autoplay has been stopped.
Thanks
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Hi Anath,
good to hear!
Zdenka
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Does your plugin support pseudostreaming? I don’t see any options to enable it.
http://flowplayer.org/plugins/streaming/pseudostreaming.html
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excellent plugin – i recently switched to it from HD webplayer. however im having one issue. there code for the video/plugin is being loaded into my excerpt on my home page. is there any way to combat this?
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Great plugin !!!!
How to put two videos as playlist in the same player ?
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Hi Tim,
pseudostreaming is not yet supported, but we are considering adding it.
Hi John,
the shortcodes are not stripped off from the excerpts, and at the moment there is no setting in the plugin to prevent this behavior, but thanks for the suggestion.
Hi Lilpodbebe,
No playlist support as already mentioned above or in our FAQ.
Zdenka
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Great plugin just what I was looking for. Thank You.
Is it possible to remove the “Share”, but keep the pop-up?
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Hi JimmyJack,
no the popup screen comes as it is, with both replay and share buttons.
Zdenka
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In some configuration we have $_SERVER['HTTPS']=’off’ if https is disabled.
So I propose to change ‘flowplayer.php’ on row 101 from:
if($_SERVER['HTTPS'])
to
if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && ‘off’!==$_SERVER['HTTPS'])
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Thanks Carlo,
we’ll add this into next release.
Zdenka
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Hi Zdenka,
Any known issues with the auto start for single videos? It does not see to be working for me.
Thanks,
Tina
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Hi Tina,
sorry no reported problems about autoplay. Please check if your shortcode is written correctly, if there are no hidden characters – witch to the source code view.
Zdenka
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Thanks Zdenka,
Here’s my code (w/private info removed):
[flowplayer src=http://www.sitename.com/movie name.m4v width=550 height=309 autoplay=true splash=http://www.sitename.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Splash.jpg]
Is it right?
Thanks again,
Tina
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We’re using your plugin on the home page and it works beautifully in Firefox and Chrome but it will not play in IE9. Any ideas? There are no other video plugins installed, in fact hardly any other plugins at all.
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Hi Tina,
do not use spaces in the directory/file names – I know the above is just an example, but just a reminder.
Also if you use autoplay there’s no point of submitting the splash screen – think will be the problem, that the splash screen takes the advantage and the autoplay is not executed. Try to remove the splash.
Zdenka
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Hi Sherrie,
we’ll check the issue with IE9, thanks for reporting!
Zdenka
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Hi Zdenka,
That was it! The splash screen needed to be removed.
Thank you so much for the awesome support you give your plugin! Do you have a donation button or something?
Thanks,
Tina
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Hi Tina,
thanks for your nice words, we’re happy to help!
The donation button is at the top of his page ;)
Zdenka
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Hi Zdenka,
Just wanted to update you a bit — I tried removing the splash image just to see if that caused the issue in IE9, it wasn’t the issue but it did reveal the issue. The flash player needed updated, plus I am running on 64-bit, so the latest flash player isn’t available for my browser.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know so you weren’t left banging your head against the wall!
Thanks!
Sherrie
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Hi Sherrie,
thanks a lot for this update! It’s very helpfull not only for us but also for other users!
Zdenka
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Hi zdenka,
I see an update version: 1.2.11
but I dont see the changelog of this new version. What are the changes?
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Hi Paul,
I don’t know why the version info is not showing up, it’s filled correctly in the changelog.
However, the only change in this release is related to RSS feeds. Video wouldn’t play in feeds anyway, and it causes the feed to be invalid (throwing some warnings in the validity checker). Therefore we removed the video from feeds completely.
Zdenka
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Wondering if there is a way to supply a flowplayer commercial license to remove the branding you say is now on the player.
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Help! I have a site that is just about to go online! The client wanted the commercial logo removed so I just bought a flowplayer commercial license, put that number in where the word false was before, and now my videos will not play! Do you have any idea what to do? if you go to the site, it is on the e-communications page. I did notice that the product key that they sent me is for Flowplayer 3.2.7, but i haven’t changed anything except put in the product key!
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Hi Calophi
Actually yes, you can enter you license key in the options page, and the commercial logo should disappear.
Zdenka
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Hi Gloria,
you need to get that version of Flowplayer and replace the file on your server with the newest version. Check our FAQ: I do own a license key and I would like to use the latest version Flowplayer provided to me.
Zdenka
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In the end, I did get it licensed Flowplayer to play, but not as the FAQ said. Couldn’t get that to work. I found my answer a combination of places, mostly on your forum from Allerbe60 on Feb. 14th and your answer.
What eventually worked was to upload into the commercial folder both the flowplayer.commercial-3.2.7.swf and the flowplayer.controls-3.2.5.swf (odd that they don’t match, but that’s what comes in latest version). Then I had to changed the path reference in models/flowplayer.php line 109 to reflect the change :
define(‘PLAYER’, RELATIVE_PATH.’/flowplayer/commercial/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.7.swf’);
That matched my license code and it worked!
Thanks for a wonderful product.
If interested, I can also tell you how I got it coded to work in a WordPress Fancybox pop-up from a thumbnail. Took a while to figure out, but it works just beautifully!
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Hi Gloria,
thanks for sharing this information! We will update our recommendations based on your experience, so thank you very much!
Yes, if you like to help others with Fancybox, please share your experiences here.
Thanks!
Zdenka
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Hi Zdenka,
I’ve been using FV WordPress Flowplayer for a long time and think it’s fabulous.
My video files are currently stored on my website hosting account.
But due to quantity of videos, file sizes, and number of views, I’m considering moving them over to Amazon S3.
Does your plugin play videos stored on Amazon S3? (I’m hoping so)
—Jeff
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Hi Jeff,
hosting on Amazon S3 is supported, but only the ordinary one.
We do not support private sharing protected with passwords, and we also haven’t tested streaming properly.
But if you like S3 only to host your videos, this works without any problems.
Zdenka
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