FV Wordpress Flowplayer Installation

There aren't any special requirements for FV Wordpress Flowplayer to work, and you don't need to install any additional plugins.

The plugin requires PHP 5 in order to run properly. Ask your hosting provider to upgrade to PHP 5, PHP 4 is just too old.

If you see an error message like this, you don't have PHP 5 installed:

Parse error: syntax 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

Installation

Download and unpack zip archive containing the plugin.
Upload the fv-wordpress-flowplayer directory into wp-content/plugins/ directory of your wordpress installation.
Make sure, that configuration file wpfp.conf is writable.
Go into Wordpress plugins setup in Wordpress administration interface and activate FV Wordpress Flowplayer plugin.
Optionally, if you want to embed videos denoted just by their filename, you can create the /videos/ directory located directly in the root of your domain and place your videos there. Otherwise, you would have to type in a complete URL of video files.

14 comments on “FV Wordpress Flowplayer Installation”

01

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
02

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
03

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
04

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
05

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
06

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
07

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
08

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
09

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

JJ at February 3rd, 2010 around 2:08 pm
10

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
11

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
12

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
13

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
14

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