FV Wordpress Flowplayer v0.9.18

Hi, Alec -

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

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

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Hi Bruce,

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

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

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

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Hi guys

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

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

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

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Hello Graeme,

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

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

Thanks,
M.

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

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Hello,

Can I embed another shortcode for the popup tag?

e.g.
[flowplayer src='1.m4v' width=640 height=360 popup='[another_plugin]‘]

If it’s not possible now, how do I change the code to enable this functionality?

Thanks,
Marco

Marco at May 4th, 2010 around 12:39 am

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Hi Marco,

this option is currently not supported. Do you have any specific reason why you would like to embed shortcode into popup tag?
Isn’t there possibility for you to insert the desired piece of code directly, instead of inserting a shortcode?

Zdenka

zdenka at May 5th, 2010 around 8:39 am

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great simply great i use this in my last site, and save my life! THANKKKK!!!

angel at May 6th, 2010 around 7:41 am

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Hello Zdenka,

It’s because the shortcode that I’d like embed is for another plugin. It’s a plugin that generates a survey. I’d like to present a survey after the viewer finishes the video. So I thought I’d do it like this:

[flowplayer src='1.m4v' width=640 height=360 popup='[survey 1]‘]

Marco at May 7th, 2010 around 12:38 pm

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Hello Marco,

At this point, we are not interested in embedding short code within our short code. It looks like a recipe for ongoing conflict issues. I’d suggest finding another way to trigger your survey. Perhaps a link for people to click on at the end of the video: that is possible in flowplayer now.

alec at May 11th, 2010 around 2:09 am

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

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

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

thanks!

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

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Hello,

Thank you so much for this AMAZING plugin! I have two questions:

1. For the popup at the end of the video, is there a way to have links open in new windows? At the moment, I am using basic html in the pop up and target=”_blank” is not opening the link in a new window.

2. How can I donate some money to you? I am so thankful for your product!

Mindy at May 12th, 2010 around 1:13 pm

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Hello Carl,

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

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

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

Thanks for your comments!
Zdenka

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

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Is there a way to autorun only selected videos? i.e. set autorun in a post rather than as a global setting?

thanks

Chuck at May 16th, 2010 around 3:00 pm

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Hi Chuck,

thanks for your comment. This option is not available yet, but it will be part of the next plugin release.

Zdenka

zdenka at May 17th, 2010 around 4:13 am

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Can I remove the full screen button in the bar?.

Twinmold at May 18th, 2010 around 9:04 am

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Hi Mindy,

I’ve sent details on donations to you. Basically for $25 we will offer technical support for installation and configuration of our plugins. For custom programming we will also give preferential rates for our own plugins (always seeking to make them better and your support is much appreciated). We are currently doing some amazing customisation for Kermit. Thanks Kermit!

Hi Twin,

We’ll work on an option to remove full screen.

Thanks for the suggestion.

alec at May 20th, 2010 around 3:18 pm

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This is a great plugin, the implications of having to paste the normal FlowPlayer javascript into WordPress posts is a nightmare, especially if it is for a client that has no knowledge of such things, along with the fact WordPress’s HTML view does not seem to ignore white spaces, corrupting the script.

One problem I am having is trying to have multiple videos on a page that use FlowPlayer’s CSS skinning plugin.

It is one FlowPlayer’s more important features, as creating a skin in Flash isn’t so easy, along with the fact the company say you require Flash CS4 to compile the control bars.

Having a way to implement that would be awesome, but it seems like a huge workload for you guys.

As well as being able to change element’s colors, being able to disable those elements as default would be nice!

That said, thanks for the plugin, it is extremely useful!

Dan O'Connell at May 21st, 2010 around 3:17 am

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Hi Dan,

Multiple videos is a bit of an issue. At some point we will get around to it. Any contributions you can make as a developer in terms of appearance would be most welcome.

We are doing some work on upload now with the support of Kermit, so we are expanding functionality but our basic principle for FV Flowplayer is KISS.

It would be very easy to make FV Flowplayer so powerful as to be unusable. FV Flowplayer for WordPress should be installable and easily used by normal users.

Thanks for stopping by.

alec at May 21st, 2010 around 3:35 am

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I tried FV WordPress Flowplayer 0.9.18 and like much of what I see.

BUT I would like for it to show the first frame of the video instead of leaving the video blank until the user presses the ‘start’ control.

Is there any reasonable way to provide this functionality?
– Thanks

Roger Due at May 23rd, 2010 around 8:11 pm

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Hi Roger,

Use the splash image functionality. Sadly flash isn’t much good at what you want. This preview of a set image was more a QuickTime feature if I remember correctly.

There’s better splash image control coming up with a new uploader thanks to Kermit and his generous support for FV Flowplayer.

alec at May 24th, 2010 around 12:05 pm

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Alec,
Can you elaborate? How doe I “Use the splash image functionality” to show the first frame of the video. Doesn’t it want a jpg?

Also, when will the support from “Kermit” be available and will it provide what I am looking for.

The communications that I have had with the FLV Producer people indicate that they can provide this functionality. Of course their product is $97 + $15 for WordPress plugin for $112.
– Thanks, Roger

Roger Due at May 24th, 2010 around 1:18 pm

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Hi Roger,

Yes, the splash image is simply an image that you upload along with the video, and insert it as splash=’yourimage’ into the shortcode.

The advantage of this is that you can grab other frame if the first one is corrupted.

Not very good trick how to go around this is setting the autoplay to false, and autobuffering to true. This will show the first frame, but it will also load the whole video, which might significantly slow down loading of the whole page.

Currently we do not plan to extend this kind of functionality.

Regards,
Zdenka

zdenka at May 25th, 2010 around 9:30 am

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Hi there, simply love this plugin. Has definitely made my life easier and a lot more fun!!!

Question is how to autoplay a single video, as opposed to globally.

And also, how did these guys get multiple videos on one single page? http://www.collisionfilms.com/backstage/

Keep it up,
Rob

Rob Elings at May 28th, 2010 around 2:25 am

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Hello,

Thanks for the great plugin. Is there a way to make some videos auto-play, but others not?

Also, is there a way to get rid of menu bar at the bottom of the videos?

Thanks,
Jason

Jason at May 28th, 2010 around 4:00 am

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Hi Rob,

the autoplay for single videos will be available in the next release.

The multiple videos should work with our FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin. Have you tested it on your site?
Btw. in the link you sent they are not using our plugin, it seems more like the original Flowplayer.

Hi Jason,

we will look at the option of removing the menu bar.

Thanks for your comments,
Zdenka

zdenka at May 28th, 2010 around 4:09 am

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Thanks for the quick response Zdenka,

I will wait for the next release patiently and will also play around with multiple vids.

Great job again,
Rob

Rob Elings at May 28th, 2010 around 4:16 am

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

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

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

but overall this is fantastic!

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

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I saw someone mention this earlier, but it would be nice to have a way to remove the control bar. Is there anyway to hack one of the config files to get it to go away? It looks like it stays there for 2 full seconds before auto-hide kicks in, which wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t cover up some of the video. For a 5 second 320×240 clip, this is annoying.

Also, thanks for the dev work on this plug-in.

Jamison at June 5th, 2010 around 12:48 pm

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

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

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Thank you, thank you and another!

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

Appreciate the time you have devoted to helping us.

Terry

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

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Hi,

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

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

Have verified the example video is uploaded?

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

Thanks,

Terry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Hi Gerald,

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

Zdenka will be in touch next week about AWS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks for your help and the very nice plugin.

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

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Hi Kevan,

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

Thanks for your kind words.

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

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

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

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

Thanks, please keep me posted on progress. :)

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

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Hi Jamison,

thanks for your comment. We’ll see what we can do about this autohide.
Zdenka

zdenka at June 14th, 2010 around 12:26 am

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Will you be adding a way for Non-Flash devices like the iPad and iPhone etc to play video using your player???

Mike at June 18th, 2010 around 12:02 pm

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We will be adding HTML 5 but not right away.

alec at June 18th, 2010 around 4:05 pm

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Fantastic plugin!

I’m setting it up to use as an audio player. Two changes I need to make this work right:

1) Controlbar to always show – no hidedelay

2) Hide the full screen button

Thanks

Ron at June 18th, 2010 around 9:59 pm

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Very interesting Ron. We’re still using WP Audio Player for our client sites, but if there’s a chance to reduce the number of plugins we’re all for it.

We’ll take a look at this. Thanks for the suggestion.

alec at June 19th, 2010 around 4:01 am

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I tried Audio Player, but it won’t play mp4 files.
I’m looking at:
http://flowplayer.org/plugins/streaming/audio.html
2/3 of the way down the page. Example: Flowplayer as a music box. But the code they give only allows one player on the page.

It shouldn’t be too hard to add into the plugin, I wouldn’t think.

Ron at June 19th, 2010 around 4:26 am

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This plugin is an absolute Godsend.

One question I have is for large videos is there a way to force pre-buffering to load a chunk of the video before the splash screen appears?

Thanks

- jms

John Susko at June 21st, 2010 around 2:34 pm

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Hi guys

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

Can this be fixed? Thanks again!

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

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Hi John,

this option is not available, and nor will it be. Splash images are used to save the server load, so the videos are loaded only when user requests to watch them. Loading videos before the splash screen would be very inefficient, and it is something we are trying to avoid.

Thanks for your comment,
Zdenka

zdenka at June 23rd, 2010 around 2:25 am

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Thanks for the reply,

With the Flash war going between some of the major players, Apple being a big one with their iPad and iPhone, it becomes very important, having more ways to use a single player that can handle them all and easily be added to WordPress using a simple plugin, without having to add code every time.

Mike at June 23rd, 2010 around 6:52 am

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Hi Mike,

We will be adding HTML 5 support. Patience.

Hi JMS,

Zdenka wasn’t quite clear enough about server load. With autobuffer, it means every visitor on every visit to your page will be downloading the video. This means that you use a lot more bandwidth than on demand. I know that I actually watch the video on only about 1/3 of the pages with video that I visit. That saves you money (no bandwidth overages) and means that people who do want to watch the video and other visitors to your site get faster performance.

If you want to autobuffer, you can turn that on in the options (we turn it off by default and recommend that it stays off).

Thanks!

Alec

alec at June 23rd, 2010 around 7:11 am

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Hi Graeme,

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

Zdenka

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

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Hi Ron,

Did you ever sort out your audio issues? FV Flowplayer should be able to handle audio.

Let us know.

alec at September 11th, 2010 around 2:21 pm

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Alec,

Yes, I got it working for audio. Your support was awesome, I had a beta version to try in just a couple hours and Zdenka helped me with a couple of other small issues. Even got it working in a widget and on a page.

Great plugin and great support!

Thank you!

Ron at September 11th, 2010 around 2:38 pm

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Hi guys

I have 4 videos on a page and I want the first one to autoplay but not the others. Please tell me how to do that.

I’m using Version 0.9.18 as it seems to be the most stable on my site.

Thanks
G

Graeme at October 10th, 2010 around 7:04 pm

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