Doesn’t work in google Chrome…

Hello Sean,

we have tested the plugin in Chrome and it had played well. It seems to me you have some javascript errors on your page which might be preventing the Flowplayer javascript to execute properly. Please check your site for these errors first, as this is not something we can solve with our plugin.

Zdenka

Hi Sean,

well yes, it could be also your provider, but to be more detailed, we have tested the video you are using, we have used the same url for it as you did, and it played well also in chrome. So the video can be played from your server.

It really seems like some issue with your site/theme/other plugins, as we are always testing our plugin in different browsers, to be sure it does work. Also you are the only one having this problem.

Zdenka

Hi Beninsky,

thanks a lot for sharing this information!

Zdenka

No problem!

Thanks a lot for this awesome plugin!

Beninsky

Hi!

I found this forum after searching for the solution to the same problem as pointed above. In my case, the flowplayer video works on my chrome while it doesn’t for other’s chrome. if this is okay on my end and not on others’, what could be the problem?

I would appreciate any insight.

Thank you!

Why am I receiving this html5: video file not found message? My videos work in all other browsers except for google chrome even on other computers.

Thanks, Paul

Martin,

Thanks a ton. Turning off the auto buffer worked! If you have a minute… Just for my own simple understanding, why does that occur with google chrome?

Thanks again,
Paul

Hello Paul,

we still received some bug reports from Chrome 28, so we just released version 2.1.30, where if the player fails in Chrome due to HTML5 video error, it loads the Flash player automatically and plays in that. The whole process is pretty much seamless.

This should help people who have Chrome which won’t play MP4 files for them – this appears to be a bug in core of Chrome.

Please let us know if you had a browser which had these issues and if it works for you now.

Thanks,
Martin

Thanks for your notes Wendy.

You will be better off with the latest version once we get the last of the Chrome issues ironed out but if you’d like an older verison, here you go: http://wordpress.org/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/developers/

Have a good evening!

Alec

Hi Martin,

We’re now testing in 2.1.31, and the video seems to play fine, but
we’re noticing behavior in Chrome mac where, after viewing video on
the site, other sites (Facebook, Nytimes, etc.) will load content, and
when it’s completely loaded dump to a blank screen. A tester on a
different computer in a different location described this as “her
Chrome getting hijacked”. She has a lot of testing experience, and
tied it into this version of the player. Unfortunately I haven’t been
able to reproduce this consistently every time, but have reproduced it
enough to be concerned. I haven’t made any other code changes to the
site(s). It just happened to me again after visiting/playing a few of
the videos.

Restarting the browser and clearing cache didn’t fix it. I
had the video up in Firefox as well, and after I quit Firefox,
restarted chrome and cleared cache a few more times, I was able to
browse sites normally. I know this doesn’t make sense, and didn’t
happen right away again, but this behavior is extremely concerning, as
the overall impression the user gets is of her browser not working.

Can it be tied into some of the buffering settings? It doesn’t always
happen after the first time video plays, seems to possibly be
cumulative.

Note:

When I go to Facebook, the login screen loads fine, but when it
actually loads the content, that’s when it disappears to a blank
screen.

Subsequent pages on varied sites behave the same way, once this
behavior happens once. Then I have to quit and clear cache a few times
to get it back to normal. I’ve never seen this before.

It does, however seem to be an existing problem on chrome:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/3oJZY2Qu-Mk
that is somehow kicked off by this version of the player. (noticed by
us on Mac, didn’t seem to affect Chrome on the PC).

Let me know if you have any insight on it, I’ll need to make sure I have a stable version that works with the latest WordPress tomorrow. Even though I would rather not go back, I’m fine with using an earlier version.

Thanks,
Wendy

No, what I’m saying is that after we watched video on the sites a few
times, every page in chrome turned blank after loading.

Update: I restarted my machine this morning, and have been testing,
seems to be better. This may have just been a residual from the
earlier version where the screen turned white on playing video in
chrome, seemed to perpetuate some behavior in the browser that was
hard to get rid of.

So far so good on my end today.

I’m waiting to hear results of more remote testing. html file
attached, if you still want to look at it,

W

Hello Wendy,

we had a look at the site to see any weird plugin behavior after you sent us information privately:

It works fine for us in Chrome 28.0.1500.95 m on Windows 7 and Windows 8 and on Chrome 21.0.1180.90 on Mac OS X 10.5.8. We can’t reproduce the problem, so it’s hard for us to troubleshoot.

Both videos are MOV and since this format is not officially supported by HTML5, it might be the reason why Chrome has issues playing it (issues on the Films page) or why the fullscreen mode misbehaves.

For troubleshooting, you should:

1. try to replace both videos with this one and see if the problem persists: http://foliovision.com/videos/example.mp4

2. try to save the page as HTML and then try taking out the scripts one by one – if you have some JavaScript programming experience.

Also, don’t forget to listen what the video checker says:

The videos won’t play on Firefox on Windows, as that browser doesn’t like video/quicktime mime type on MOV files, you have to fix it to video/mp4.

Thanks,
Martin