FV WordPress Flowplayer v0.9.16 and less

0.9.16

minor bug fixes

0.9.15

support for widget use and template use

0.9.14

Added a possibility to forbid the popup boxes.
Some output validation.
Minor visual improvements.

0.9.13

Added "Replay" and "Share" buttons to the popup box after video finishes.
Some performance tweaks concerning popup box.

0.9.12

First stable version ready to be published.
Removed farbtastic colour picker using jQuery from settings menu. Substituted by jscolor.

128 comments on “FV WordPress Flowplayer v0.9.16 and less”

01

Hello,

it doesnt work for me. it says : error: http: //link.com/videos/<code>test.mp4</code> not found.

But why is <code></code> in there?

tunny at September 27th, 2009 around 5:12 am
02

Hi tunny!
There are two things that may have caused this – either you copied the code from somewhere with redundant <code></code> tags, or something (maybe some other plugin) is messing with your post content. Could you try directly editing your post’s source code and removing <code></code> tags? Let me know what happens, and copy what exactly you have in your post please.

miso at September 28th, 2009 around 7:15 am
03

Hi,

I have tried on several occassions to upload the plugin to my WP blog and even though it shows in the plugin directory ie: wp-content/plugins/ it doesn’t display in my WP admin area under plugins.

Not sure why?

Look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,
Tony

Tony at October 2nd, 2009 around 3:19 am
04

Hi Tony!
Do you have “fv-wordpress-flowplayer” directory in your wo-content/plugins/? If you do, please make sure that:

1. it’s not empty (you may not have unpacked it right)
2. its directory structure is intact – e.g. there are other directories in it (model, view, controller, css…)
3. webserver has an execute “x” access to that directory (if you are running a unix/linux server, you could also copy-paste the outcome of “ls -la /wp-content/plugins/” command here)

miso at October 3rd, 2009 around 11:44 am
05

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /blog/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/models/flowplayer.php on line 4

Jhampton at October 3rd, 2009 around 3:39 pm
06

Jhampton, you are probably using PHP4 on your server. Is that right? Flowplayer plugin is unfortunatelly designed for PHP5.

miso at October 6th, 2009 around 2:20 am
07

Hi,

After trying a lot of similar plugins, I find that your’s is simply the best: simple yet efficient!

The only thing that bothers me is that I didn’t find a way to get completely rid of the popup when the video finish playing.

I would like it to be as in the settings: just a play again button.

Can you point me in the right direction, please?

Thanks in advance, and forgive my poor English, I’m French…

Anne at October 6th, 2009 around 8:52 am
08

Anne: First of all, thanks very much! Second, your english is flawless :-)
Now let’s get to the point – the popup was intended to appear every time the video finishes, as an improved replacement of the original “play again” button. However, seeing that you would like to get rid of it, I will add the possibility to turn it off into next version of plugin.
Thank you again for feature request and for your patience.

miso at October 6th, 2009 around 12:28 pm
09

Hi guys,

Thanks for your replies.

I’ll check this over with my developer. I’m quite sure that my host has upgraded server to php5.

Thanks again,
Tony

Tony at October 6th, 2009 around 3:19 pm
10

Hi,
Is it possible to change the scaling to ‘fit’ without modifying the source code? I can do that but I don’t like to do it everytime you guy upgrade the player plugin.
Thanks for developing a cool plugin.

Cheers,
Tony.

Tony at October 7th, 2009 around 3:58 am
11

Hi,

I’m having some trouble getting the play to run a video on my churches website. I keep getting this error message -

200,stream not found,[object clip error],clip:
“[clip]“http://www.fbcdublin.org/videos/2009bak2skoolblast.mp4"
I keep trying different things, but can't seem to get it to work.

Jonathan at October 7th, 2009 around 8:40 pm
12

Hi Miso
I apologize for bothering you again but I have another problem that I normally fix with setting the flash wmode and z-index setting. If you look at http://skydivesandiego.com/?page_id=329 and roll over “facilities” on the navbar, the dropdown menu falls behind the flow player. I checked all of the files but cannot find a setting that can rectify this. I also checked Flow players forums, but they all reference the fix as if the actual flash is embedded on the page. Any ideas? Thank you for your help.

Lee

Lee at October 7th, 2009 around 10:26 pm
13

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

Anne at October 8th, 2009 around 12:10 am
14

how can I add some of the flowplayer plugins? In particular, the one discussed here: http://flowplayer.org/forum/5/14664 to allow you to click ahead in the video?

ricky at October 8th, 2009 around 11:14 am
15

Hello Ricky,

This is the Foliovision version of the Open Source free version of Flowplayer (which is broken source crippleware which is why we built our own version, but that’s a story for another day).

I believe most of these plugins are supposed to work with the pay versions. If you have different information, do let me know.

alec at October 8th, 2009 around 11:23 am
16

Tony: Where exactly do you want to change the scaling? I think there is a possibility to change the styling of your flowplayers independently of plugin versions by adding some rules to your own stylesheet. Just take a look on our class names and ids and modify whatever you want in your stylesheet.

Johnathan: You should make sure, that the user, under which the webserver is running has the “read” and “execute” permissions for the /videos/ directory. It seems like the player can’t access the video file. Anyway, if that still doesn’t work, try placing the videos elsewhere and specifying absolute URL to them.

Lee: Wmode is already set to “opaque” and there is no problem with drawing HTML code over the player – that’s how popup boxes work (and they even work no your site). There seems to be something special going on with your dropdown menu there. BTW the z-index of popup box is set to 999 and position is “absolute”. Maybe you should try to experiment with placing some other HTML over the players and compare it to your menu, so you can find out which setting makes it not work. Let me know if you find out please. If you don’t there is still a last possibility of moving your videos a little bit lower on the page.

miso at October 9th, 2009 around 5:19 am
17

Hi Miso,

I just upgraded to the 0.9.14 and show the new option to disable the Popup Box. It works like a charm and it’s exactly what I wanted!

Thank you so much!

Anne at October 9th, 2009 around 8:03 am
18

Hi,

Thanks for this very good plugin !
Is it possible to use FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin as a widget ?
I’ve to try to use it with php-code-widget plugin but with no success.

Monpelaud at October 10th, 2009 around 6:52 am
19

Hi miso,

Just in the “clip” section like in the following code:
clip: { autoPlay: true, scaling:’fit’,…

It will keep the video from distortion. Instead of stretching the video to fit the div size and lost it’s original aspect ratio (ex. 4:3, 16:9, etc.), it will fill extra space on top/bottom or left/right with background color so a square box would still be a square for example.

Yes you can adjust the div size with css to match any video’s size one by one but it’d be more convenience to have this parameter to keep it looks good for any video. Also we can keep the player screen at the same size so it’s easier to design a website.

Oh and in http://www.star-board.com we don’t use WordPress yet, I’m new to it and still have to learn a lot, perhaps I can learn enough to use it for our 2011 website.

Tony at October 11th, 2009 around 8:09 pm
20

Hi Tony. Thanks for clarification, I know what you mean now. You can expect scaling set to “fit” in the next version of the plugin. I will just need to do some testing, etc.

miso at October 12th, 2009 around 7:24 am
21

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

Sarah at October 17th, 2009 around 12:55 am
22

Hi everyone,

I have a question concerning the splash image… I’ve managed so far to implement a video in my wordpress blog… I used the code

–> [FLOWPLAYER=wp-content/videos/me.flv,500,380]

I now would like to add a splash image and I acutally don’t know what I have to add to the code!

Does someone has a solutions?

Thanks

Quentin

quentin at October 22nd, 2009 around 4:03 am
23

Hi Quentin,

I don’t recommend you keep your videos or your photos in wp-content. What happens if you ever want to move to another platform? You’ll be dragging that folder along forever. Better to keep your photos and videos in folders at root. My suggestion: /videos and /images.

Otherwise, reread the documentation above and you will see that splash images are covered with sample code.

alec at October 22nd, 2009 around 4:23 am
24

My apologies…might have posted this elsewhere but did you answer Monpelaud’s question about using plugin as a widget? I too would like to use as a widget and possibly in one of the php templates but not sure how to embed player. Thx for your help.

Stefan Holt at October 22nd, 2009 around 7:45 am
25

Hi,
I Was just wondering if there is a way to change the default video size settings?instead of 320×240,i want it to be 580×400.Thanks.

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

We just switched from “WordPress Flowplayer” to your plugin so we can use splash images. Thanks for making this plugin.

We’ve noticed that the Replay & Share buttons get placed below the Flowplayer in Google Chrome.

Also, I think Flowplayer has an ability to use the first frame of the movie as a splash image. Maybe you could add support for that if you get bored.

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

Jerry: Of course it is possible, but you will need to modify the source code of the plugin (change the values on lines 28 and 29 of the /models/flowplayer-frontend.php file). This will however mean, that you will have to edit this again every time you update the plugin to a new version.

Stefan Holt, Monpelaud: Since we are trying to keep the plugin as lighweight and easy-to-use as possible, we haven’t considered such possibility yet. According to this philosophy, we encourage users to play videos in the simplest manner possible – by including short [flowplayer ...] code in their posts.

miso at October 27th, 2009 around 6:48 pm
28

Can you change the buffer length on this? Great plugin but it still took 24 sec to load my 5 min video. Viddler only took 4 sec. I hosted the video on hostgator.

Dr. Dan "RockStar" Life-Style Coach at October 27th, 2009 around 10:59 pm
29

Hi Michal,

I would like there to be an option in FV WordPress Flowplayer to be able to use Widgets. Let’s do something simple so that it is possible to add videos to the sidebar easily.

Format should be self-contained widget where you just enter the same syntax as we use for including FV Flowplayer inside posts. Plus an option for captions.

Keep in mind that the widget should be a multiple instances widget (i.e. someone can put 3 or 4 videos into their sidebar). But each instance will only display a single video. Ideally the video name would go into the widget title (so that’s easy to see which is which) but that’s just for bonus points.

Thanks.

alec at October 28th, 2009 around 7:21 am
30

I installed your plugin today and have an issue getting the video to play. I can hear the audio just fine, and once the player buffers all the data I can scroll through the audio, but I get nothing but a white screen for video.

any ideas ? this is an mp4, created with Apple IMovie.

Dave at October 28th, 2009 around 8:35 am
31

Hmm, now I uploaded a large version of this file as a H264 format filename.mov instead of mp4.

I can see the video just fine on this version, but I get no audio.

mp4 -> audio but no video
mov -> video but no audio

Dave at October 28th, 2009 around 9:33 am
32

Hi Dave,

This is an .flv player. Apparently there is some mp4 playing capability built-in but our versions is specifically aimed at flash videos. I recommend you use .flv’s as well, as over 90% of web surfers have flash installed. I know the technical arguments about superiority of mp4′s and agree with them but for just a standard embedded video, flv is the answer.

If you want to offer MP4′s, I recommend that you make them a link to download underneath the flv.

alec at October 28th, 2009 around 10:56 am
33

Having trouble getting the flv video to play. Shows only a black rectangle where it should load. I’m thinking maybe there is a conflict with another plugin… Do you know of any existing plugin conflicts? Also saw something above about “” redundancy:

My code:
[flowplayer src=test2.flv width=752 height=246]

Here is the code WordPress spits out:
[flowplayer src=test2.flv width=752 height=246]

Paul at October 29th, 2009 around 11:06 am
34

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

Paul at October 29th, 2009 around 12:07 pm
35

Forgive me if you have answered this, I did browse through the posted comments first.

How does one use a playlist? I would like the option for several different videos in the same player.

Thanks for an awesome plugin!

Rob

Robert Edwards at October 31st, 2009 around 11:00 am
36

Hi,

I’m having some trouble getting the play my external hosted video om AWS servers

[flowplayer src=https://site.s3.amazonaws.com/video/sbihub-into/into.flv]

Get the error msg:

200,stream not found,[object clip error],clip:
“[clip]

I keep trying different things, but can’t seem to get it to work:

- Added the trailing /
- ” and ‘ quotes around reference

Is there different way to call an absolute reference?

thanks!

Erik

Erik at November 4th, 2009 around 7:29 am
37

Hi Erik,

I’m thinking the issue might have to do with the https://

Have you tried using just straight http:// with an external server?

alec at November 4th, 2009 around 7:34 am
38

Hi Alec … yes I have not tried the absolute url using straight http:// from both internal and external websites. However my need here is to stream off of my AWS server …

Erik at November 5th, 2009 around 6:35 pm
39

Thank you so much for this plug-in.

I’ve been looking for a plug-in like this for ages. I found it through WordPress when looking for an mp4 player plug-in. It doesn’t show up when I search specifically for “video player”, perhaps you could fix that so others can have the benefit of it.

Will you add a TinyMCE button for it?

Thanks again,

Dion.

Dion de Ville at November 6th, 2009 around 4:29 am
40

Wonderful plugin! But of course you already knew that… ;}

Anyhow, I can’t get this to work in a sidebar (Using the arbitrary text or HTML widget) nor inside of a table (Using WP-Table Reloaded). Other plugins shortcode (like Viper Video Quick tags) work inside of those objects.

To ensure I had the short code accurate, I copied the exact shortcode I was using in the sidebar and in the table and placed it on a page and it worked perfectly.

To be clear, what I get when it doesn’t work in the widget or the table is the exact text of the shortcode displayed on the page.

Hope all this makes sense.

Cheers and thanks again!

Rob

Robert Edwards at November 7th, 2009 around 6:12 pm
41

Hello,
struggling to install a video within my post. Made the video on Windows Movie Maker, converted the file to .flv but WP.org will not allow me to save the file to my WP Media Library, saying it does not meet security guidelines.

I then converted it to MP4 format and only the audio plays but nothing visual, just a white screen. Can you tell me how to link the video to this player without it being in the WP library. Thank you in advance.

Bryan at November 8th, 2009 around 12:35 pm
42

Hello Rob,

the widget support will be added in next release, in the meantime you can do a quick and simple mod to our plugin PHP code to fix it -

Open fv-wordpress-flowplayer/controller/frontend.php file and add a new line bellow line 14 saying:

add_action(‘widget_text’,'flowplayer_content’);

This will allow you to use the default square brackets shortcode in the default WordPress Text Widget.

I’m sending you the fixed php file on your email.

The problem with WP Table Reloaded requires a better WordPress Shortcode API support which will be added in next version of our plugin.

Thanks,
M.

Martin at November 13th, 2009 around 6:49 am
43

Martin,

Thank you very much! I’ll be installing it a little later today. Really appreciate the support and an awesome plugin.

Cheers, Rob

Robert Edwards at November 13th, 2009 around 6:55 am
44

Martin,

Wanted to get back to you and let you know the update frontend.php you sent me worked PERFECTLY for my widget.

Thank you very, very much for such a good and solid plugin as well as the good technical support!

R/ Rob

Robert Edwards at November 19th, 2009 around 9:26 pm
45

Hello,
Just wanted to say great plugin… question… could you provide the source code for the modified flowplayer? I wanted to customize it… but I can’t get my compiled version to interact with you wordpress integration layer.

Andrew at December 1st, 2009 around 3:22 pm
46

GREAT JOB!!!

I am wondering if the plugin supports (or will support) a playlist? Any format is fine but it would make my life a breeze!!!!

Ethan at December 3rd, 2009 around 10:20 am
47

Hey I’ve been using your plugin for a while on my site and I think it rocks. However I’ve recently had the need to embed my videos on other sites, but lack the knowledge as to how to do that.

After a quick Google search I discovered Flowplayer supports a java script plugin which allows it to generate embed code, but I don’t have a clue as to how to get it to work with your player.

Here is the plugin in question: http://flowplayer.org/demos/plugins/javascript/embed.html

If you could point me in the right direction as to how to solve this I’m sure I could figure the rest out.

Thanks in advance.

-Karl

Karl at December 3rd, 2009 around 10:15 pm
48

Hello Andrew,

I think you can decompile it following the instruction somewhere on this site: http://flowplayer.org/documentation/developer/development-environment.html

I’m sending our decompiled version to your email address.

Enjoy,
M.

Martin at December 4th, 2009 around 1:43 am
49

Correction… strangely I had downloaded it completely the first time… decided to redownload it just for the heck of it and it worked.. I was able to unzip it fine. Anyway I could have a copy of the source code I was also going to try to remove the brand from the right-click menu.

You’ve done a wonderful job and great service to the world thanks.

Trip at December 4th, 2009 around 4:43 am
50

Hello…I used the embed code for my widget and it works perfectly…I love flowplayer…But I would like it not to start automatically…how can I change that? I used the embed code from here http://flowplayer.org/demos/plugins/javascript/embed.html

Johnny at December 13th, 2009 around 9:23 pm
51

Hi. Thanks for this plugin, I love it. I have played with it and gotten it to successfully load in a post. Now I want to add a player to my main index template, above my first featured content.

What code can I use within my main index template to do this. I want a fixed video introduction that will not autostart, with an image overlay. I have all the pieces parts, but I cannot figure out what to code.

Chip at December 16th, 2009 around 12:13 pm
52

I really like the idea of this plugin…if I could get it to work. I have had similar errors as listed in the previous comments, but the posted solutions haven’t rendered a solution.

I uploaded .flv videos to a ‘videos’ directory under my public_html on my server. Then I plugged in the file name as stated in the instructions. Then I tried absolute URL’s, still nothing. I checked permissions for that folder, they were set correctly. Then I made a ‘videos’ directory under the root of the website. When I put the code in the first time, it works. Anytime I refresh the page, then the video quits working.

Each attempt mentioned above produces the same error message:

200, Stream not found, [object Clip Error], clip, “[Clip]http://www.woodworkersjourney.com/videos/WWJintro_0002.flv”

I really want to use this plugin. What am I overlooking, or what haven’t I done right? Thanks for the help.

Adam King at December 17th, 2009 around 9:30 am
53

Hi Ethan,

No playlist for now, but thanks for the suggestion.

Hi Karl,

Sorry we haven’t worked with that embed script yet. If you do get it to work, we’d be delighted to incorporate it in the FV Open Source version.

Hi Johnny,

Setting your videos to autostart or not is pretty simple. It’s in FV Flowplayer Configuration. It can also be set on a per video basis using an autoplay tag.

Hi Chip,

For the moment our version plays in content and not in templates. If you’d like us to configure your site for you, let us know via the contact form but that’s a paid service.

Hi Everybody,

Roadmap right now is easy embedding inside Widgets and inside templates. If we have $100 donated we’ll do it before New Year’s. Otherwise we are going to have to have a holiday like everybody else and do it sometime in 2010. Donations can be sent via Paypal to payment at foliovision.com. Be sure to mention Flowplayer embedded in your donation!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

alec at December 18th, 2009 around 4:25 pm
54

Thanks for a great plugin! But I have one problem, when adding a splash image for the player window that shows before you click to play the video the actual play button is vertically distorted. I have no idea why. Would you be able to take a look at this? It is the most recent post on my site. Splash images used on pages (and not posts) look just fine, does it have to do with certain custom window sizes?

Michael at December 24th, 2009 around 4:58 pm
55

Hi
I’ve setup up your plugin pretty flawlessly, but i’ve got one little problem.
My video is 400×320 and when it’s buffering – there is animated rotating circle icon on black background. Problem is – it’s not centered properlly.

Later if there is any more buffering – the rotating cirlce overlayed on video is centered like it should.

What can cause this behaviour? Please take a look at my site. Thanks for help!

filip at December 26th, 2009 around 4:04 pm
56

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

http://bit.ly/7YNrLB

Josh at December 27th, 2009 around 7:25 pm
57

@donna

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

great job on the plug-in, guys.

joe at December 30th, 2009 around 2:59 pm
58

I keep getting a “server not found” followed by the URL every time I go to play the video in my blog. What am I doing wrong? And can I use the upload plug-in in WordPress instead of manually uploading?

JJ at January 2nd, 2010 around 11:26 am
59

Thanks for your plugin! it works just fine.

I already seen in one comment improvement of frame proportion when you go into fullscreen.

Where exactly i need to insert that scale to fit line?

Thanks in advance.

maxim at January 9th, 2010 around 6:20 pm
60

Hi guys, thanks for pointing out the possibilities in the CSS file as I’ve had the problem with oversized play buttons on my website using flowplayer. The problem is strange though, when using flowplayer on pages it looks great, when using it in posts it looks like this
http://www.monologues.se/ugly_playbutton.png

I’ve tried to figure out a way to bypass this in the .splash_play_button section of the CSS file but without any luck. Anyone has a solution to make it look as it should?

Big thanks for your support!

Michael at January 11th, 2010 around 7:29 am
61

Hi Michael,

If you say that this problem is specific to posts and does not occur
on pages, have you tried using some different template?

There may be some conflicts in the
CSS.

I tried to go through your style.css myself and found what’s causing the problem:

.single .post .entry-content img {max-width:585px;height:inherit;}

Either remove “height:inherit” from it or add this to flowplayer.css:

img.splash_play_button
{
height: auto !important;
}

Thanks,
M.

Martin at January 12th, 2010 around 9:45 am
62

This looks like a good plugin but I can’t seem to get it to work. All I get is a black rectangle where the video should be. Similiar to what Paul had in previous comments. Does anyone know what this could be?

Thanks,
Warren

Warren McNeil at January 16th, 2010 around 4:43 pm
63

I downloaded your plugin locally – but videos won’t play. i included full url in the src: [flowplayer src=http://localhost/wp/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/flowplayer/example.flv, width=640, height=280] – but when i view the post – it is just a grey box with no controls. what am i doing wrong?

Michael Soriano at January 16th, 2010 around 10:01 pm
64

Hello Michael and Warren,

FV Flowplayer calls some javascript form the footer. All WordPress themes come with footer.php and footer php must be included in any page where you are using FV Flowplayer.

The way you do it is to call <?php wp_footer(); ?> in your theme’s footer.php.

Almost all themes do this out of the box, but if you’ve customised your theme there’s a chance that you might have deleted this call. One of our other programmers did it here. The right way to edit your footer or delete is to change the contents of footer.php.

Thanks,
M.

Martin at January 18th, 2010 around 6:01 am
65

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

Michael Soriano at January 31st, 2010 around 2:10 pm
66

Hi there,
try to put the code by using the HTML tab option (top right over the writing field) and type it in this field as :

[flowplayer src=http://your-domain-name/wp-content/videos/your-video.flv]

It works fine for me after removing the “code” tags. It seems to be important to type the full URL.

lughy at February 2nd, 2010 around 11:54 pm
67

I love the customizable features of this player, however, all I get to display is a gray/blac box where the video should be. What am I doing wrong?

Moira at February 3rd, 2010 around 6:21 am
68

Fantastic plugin, using it to replace my previous one now. Any idea how this appears in RSS feeds? With the splash image or just doesn’t show up at all?

urban bohemian at February 3rd, 2010 around 9:30 am
69

Hi Moira,

Make sure you have working footer.php (check earlier comments).

Hi Urban Bohemian,

Thanks for the question about RSS. For the moment, FV Flowplayer shows up, but broken. We will be changing this to not to show up at all. No flash video player can work in most feed readers as they require javascript.

alec at February 3rd, 2010 around 9:59 am
70

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

Moira at February 3rd, 2010 around 12:44 pm
71

thanks brother, i got it working, i was missing the “video” folder.

JJ at February 3rd, 2010 around 2:08 pm
72

200 error stream not found on s3 with godaddy wordprss
tried adding mime types to .htaccess to no avail.
Any ideas where I should look nest?
Here is a link to s3 vid
http://proveitvideos.s3.amazonaws.com/david%20tutera_Title_01_01(2)(1).flv

Anthony at February 11th, 2010 around 7:05 am
73

Just uploaded the plugin with the intent of either playing or streaming an mp4 from CloudFront. I get audio (after a long wait,) but no video. I tried pasting the file link in my browser – the file opens Quick Time, and plays flawlessly.
Can’t seem to get Mp4 video to work …

Wayne Allen at February 11th, 2010 around 12:12 pm
74

Hello,

thank you for this plugin. I have a question: where can I change the standard volume output? The default is 50%. But how can I change the default-level?

Thank you for any response

Peter

Peter Viehrig at February 12th, 2010 around 12:26 pm
75

Hello Peter,

good question, to do so you must edit one of the php files and add a tiny bit of code:

In file fv-wordpress-flowplayer/models/flowplayer-frontend.php at the end of line 104 insert the following, don’t forget to put comma after the brackets:

onLoad: function () { this.setVolume(100); },

This is how the code will look after you do it:

clip: {
url: \”.$media.’\',
autoPlay: ‘.(isset($this->conf['autoplay'])?$this->conf['autoplay']:’false’).’,
autoBuffering: ‘.(isset($this->conf['autobuffer'])?$this->conf['autobuffer']:’false’).’
},
onLoad: function () { this.setVolume(100); },
canvas: {
backgroundColor:\”.$this->conf['canvas'].’\’
}

Some easier configuration of advanced options like this one might be a good addition for next version of our plugin. Thanks for pointing this out.

M.

Martin at February 15th, 2010 around 2:18 am
76

Hello Anthony,

please try to replace the blank space in the filename with the underscore symbol. Then use a shortcode like this one:

[flowplayer src=http://proveitvideos.s3.amazonaws.com/david_tutera_Title_01_01(2)(1).flv]

Thanks,
M.

Martin at February 15th, 2010 around 2:48 am
77

Thank you very much.

Meinen ganz herzlichen Dank!

Peter Viehrig at February 15th, 2010 around 9:56 am
78

I can’t this to do a thing.

Seems simple enough, but…
Using HTML view, I put in [flowplayer src=GIS-welcome.mp4]
And when I preview my page, I see [flowplayer src=GIS-welcome.mp4]

No video, no box, no error.

I tried it with an absolute path and also just with the name. Videos are in a videos subdirectory of root. I can access the video if I just use thst url.
I have PHP 5.2.12.

What am I missing?

Cheers!
Toby

Toby at February 15th, 2010 around 5:28 pm
79

Hello Toby,

seems like there is some whitespace non-visible character between the
square bracket and the ‘f’ letter. When I copy your code and paste it
into some plain text text field I can see it’s there.

You probably copied the whole code from some website, that might be
the cause for this. So please try to go into the HTML view again and
make sure there is no blank space in ‘[flowplayer’

Thanks,
M.

Martin at February 16th, 2010 around 4:42 am
80

Got it working!

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

Couldn’t see it until posted into Notepad.

Thanks!

Toby at February 16th, 2010 around 8:19 am
81

Just a quick question…as I am not nearly as proficient as most people on here this may seem like a very silly question…how do I get my video to loop? Is there a way to make this work with html or in the css or where? Thanks so much!

Bruce Backman at February 26th, 2010 around 1:27 pm
82

Is there a way to configure autoplay on a video by video basis instead of globally?

thank you

stvwlf at February 26th, 2010 around 3:02 pm
83

Hey first off, thanks for a great plugin – I’ve been playing with it for a little while now and I’m going to give it a proper go with a project I’ve been working on.

One question I had, more on the feasibility of future functionality more than anything – How easy would it be to add pre-roll content to videos? How about watermarks?

As it is I can hack the videos themselves together to create this functionality, but the ability to add them as site-wide variables would provide some great benefits for managing the content I deliver to my users.

Thanks again for the brilliant work.

Superwicked at February 27th, 2010 around 5:48 am
84

Hello,

First of all, great work on this plugin, it’s very nice.

Having a bit of a problem with the video in this post: http://www.kbdi.org/news/index.php/2010/02/23/video-grand-junctions-multifaceted-health-care-approach/

Once you click play, the actual video overlay shifts down approx. 60px. Any ideas what’s causing this?

Drew at February 28th, 2010 around 11:20 pm
85

I had the same problem with the white space. Now I can see the videos.

Is it possible to insert the code as an embed (like Youtubes i.e.), so someone can copy it and paste in his site and show the video???

Great plugin

Thank you

Inigo at March 1st, 2010 around 4:08 am
86

How can I obtain an embed code with flowplayer to embed the code in the site?? I mean just like the one you get from youtube i.e. to embed it in another site.

Thank you

Inigo at March 1st, 2010 around 10:16 am
87

Thanks for all of your comments, questions and suggestions!
- Bruce, video looping isn’t what we’re looking for (but if somebody adds it cleverly, we’ll add it to our code but it’s not something we’ll work on ourselves).
- Preroll content: not on our radar.
- Watermarking: watermarking should be done at the flv conversion level not in the player.
- Per video autoplay can be changed as far as I know in the shortcodes: just tell them that and add it to the documentation.
- For embed codes, yes that is a nice idea Inigo and shouldn’t be too tough.
- Drew, it’s probably just a CSS conflict. Check for duplicate classes.
Our approach with most of our plugins and specifically with FV Flowplayer is to code something simple to use and robust. We are not eager to add so much functionality that 1. the plugin breaks a lot 2. it is very difficult to use.

We want FV Flowplayer to be the best straightforward unbranded video player on the market. We are not looking to be the most feature rich.

The last good version of MS Word was 5.1. Published in 1991. Everything since then has just made Word buggier and harder to use.
alec at March 2nd, 2010 around 7:07 pm
88

I am trying to use your FV Player outside of wordpress – since there doesn’t seem to be another good unbranded version of flowplayer (I wonder why, too). I can make it work, but run into trouble with RTMP.

Do you have an updated version based on the 3.1.5 flowplayer (or even any newer version?). I have got the RTMP plugin working and it works just with the latest free version of Flowplayer, but I can’t make it work with your improved unbranded version (which from the docs is based on 3.1.3?).

Here’s my code: http://pastie.org/862936

Ryan at March 10th, 2010 around 3:41 am
89

Hello Ryan,

We will eventually update our core. FV Flowplayer is not designed to be on the bleeding edge, but rather to be a solid free solution without branding to cover .flv and h.264 files.

That said, when we update core, we’ll definitely look at including your code. If you are able to get it working in the meantime with our plugin, if you share the working code with us, we will integrate it into the main trunk of the code so that other people can benefit from your work with RTMP.

Unfortunately we are not in a position to debug this for you now.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

alec at March 10th, 2010 around 9:14 pm
90

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

Jason Benjamin at March 16th, 2010 around 5:42 pm
91

How to make this plugin WPMU compatible?

Reezo at March 21st, 2010 around 1:58 am
92

Hi Reezo,

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

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

Thanks,
M.

Martin at March 22nd, 2010 around 2:51 am
93

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

Jean at March 23rd, 2010 around 1:35 pm
94

Hello Jean,

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

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

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

Thanks,
M.

Martin at March 25th, 2010 around 7:17 am
95

Hello Jean,

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

Inigo at March 25th, 2010 around 7:50 am
96

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

Patrick at March 25th, 2010 around 12:51 pm
97

Hi Patrick,

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

Thanks for the suggestion!

alec at March 25th, 2010 around 3:09 pm
98

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

Jean at March 25th, 2010 around 9:26 pm
99

Patrick,

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

Jean at March 25th, 2010 around 9:29 pm
100

Hello Jason,

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

Martin at March 26th, 2010 around 1:07 am
101

Jean,

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

Patrick at March 26th, 2010 around 4:28 am
102

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

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

Jean at March 26th, 2010 around 8:05 am
103

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

Patrick at March 26th, 2010 around 8:16 am
104

Patrick,

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

Jean at March 26th, 2010 around 9:40 am
105

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

Patrick at March 26th, 2010 around 12:06 pm
106

Hello,

First, let me say that I love Flowplayer! So clean and easy to use. I am building a video portfolio site of my work. I am having one small issue and I was wondering if you could help? On all videos that play with a mostly black/dark background, the player consistently shows up a thin white line on right side breaking the video design/experience (on a Mac laptop OSX). I was wondering how I could remove this so videos blend seemless into the site’s black background?

Thanks so much for your time and help!!!

Margaret Noble at April 5th, 2010 around 12:28 pm
107

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

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

Is this a style sheet issue?

T.rex at April 6th, 2010 around 10:28 am
108

Hi T. Rex,

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

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

alec at April 6th, 2010 around 3:49 pm
109

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

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

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

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

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

Paul at April 13th, 2010 around 4:42 pm
110

Hello Paul,

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

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

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

Thanks,
M.

Martin at April 14th, 2010 around 6:29 am
111

Do you have any screen shots of how to do this with amazon S3 instead of hosting on your own server?

thank you!

JT at April 14th, 2010 around 7:46 pm
112

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

Kermit Woodall at April 16th, 2010 around 3:15 pm
113

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

things with bits » Customised Flowplayer in Wordpress at April 18th, 2010 around 7:45 am
114

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

Thank you, all!

Richard

Richard Escobedo at April 18th, 2010 around 6:51 pm
115

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

Brilliant.

You’re a genius.

You rock.

I’m going to celebrate!

Graeme at April 19th, 2010 around 10:43 pm
116

Thanks for the kinds words, Graeme! Much appreciated.

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

alec at April 20th, 2010 around 8:14 am
117

Hi Kermit,

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

alec at April 20th, 2010 around 8:34 am
118

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

Patrick at April 20th, 2010 around 9:06 am
119

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

Kermit at April 20th, 2010 around 10:49 am
120

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

Thanks for a great plugin regardless!

Kermit Woodall

Kermit Woodall at April 20th, 2010 around 7:47 pm
121

Hi Kermit,

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

Just a suggestion.

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

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

alec at April 21st, 2010 around 2:59 pm
122

Hi Patrick,

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

Thanks.

alec at April 21st, 2010 around 3:03 pm
123

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

Kermit Woodall

Kermit Woodall at April 21st, 2010 around 3:07 pm
124

Hi Kermit,

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

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

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

alec at April 21st, 2010 around 5:02 pm
125

Hello Margaret,

I’ve seen that happen on my Mac in Firefox, but not in Safari. It also worked just fine in all the browsers on my Windows computer.

When I was resizing window, the white or black line (depending on color settings) was appearing and disappearing. It looks like it’s related to the actual window width. Hopefully it will be fixed in new Firefox.

Hello JT,

I think your question is answered here: http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer#comment-38825

Thanks,
M.

Martin at April 22nd, 2010 around 12:21 am
126

Hi guys

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

Thanks
Graeme

Graeme at April 22nd, 2010 around 10:26 pm
127

Hi Patrick,

We’re looking at the Amazon S3 issue.

thanks,
Zdenka

zdenka at April 23rd, 2010 around 7:37 am
128

Hi Graeme,

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

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

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

Zdenka

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