FV Player Pro Changelog

7.5.46 – 2024/04/05

• Vimeo – use MPEG-DASH streams from Vimeo API
• Vimeo – support new FV Player Vimeo Security

7.5.45 – 2024/03/14

• Vimeo – fix playback issues after yesterday’s Vimeo API changes
• Vimeo – report error for users who are not on the Vimeo Pro plan to allow playback in 3rd party players
• Vimeo – report error if Vimeo token does not allow Video Files to be obtained

7.5.44.beta – 2023/10/24

• Beta – Bunny Stream Collections – avoid crashing website if FV Player is not active
• Beta – Encrypted HLS – avoid showing non-critical PHP errors to ensure the playback does not break in Safari
• Beta – Stream Loader – avoid showing non-critical PHP errors to ensure the playback does not break in Safari

7.5.43 – 2023/10/17

• Stream Loader – fix for playback issues in WordPress 6.3.2 when using the “Speed-up” setting

7.5.41.beta – 2023/10/13

• Beta – Bunny Stream Collections – show entire collection as a playlist

7.5.35 – 2023/04/26

• Encrypted HLS with multiple auto tracks bugfix for WordPress 6.2

• Bugfix – Video Ads – Clicking ad count-down shouldn’t open link

• Bugfix – Video Ads – Easier to click skip button

• Bugfix – Video ads – Fix Skip button icon click

• Beta – Chapters – support dynamic loading via Flowplayer load() method.

• Beta – Bugfix – Video Ads – Fix for skip button on post-roll ad

• Beta – Bugfix – Video Ads – Fix when autoadvance is disabled

• Beta – Odysee – Show error when video parsing fails

7.5.34 – 2023/04/03

• Encrypted HLS bugfix for WordPress 6.2

7.5.33 – 2023/03/31

• Bunny Stream – fix playback issue when using WordPress 6.2 (missing HTTP referrer)

• Transcript – fix previous result button when using search

• Beta – Chapters API improvements

• Beta – User AB Loop API improvements

• Beta – PeerTube custom instance support

7.5.30 – 2022/12/23

• Video Ads – now available as wp-admin -> FV Player -> Video Ads only

• Bugfix – Settings box being closed

• Bugfix – Video Skip button is now easier to click

• Bugfix – Vimeo fallback API reliability improvements

• Beta – AB loop – Make timeline easier to tap on mobile

• Beta – AB loop – I/O overlay buttons for mobile

• Beta – Chapters – playlist fixes

• Beta – Chapters – prevent position restore when clicking chapters

• Beta – Chromecast – Fixes for Vimeo

• Beta – DRM Text – Resilience improvements

• Beta – DRM Text – Fix for RTL websites in Firefox

• Beta – HLS.js loading improvements – removing other plugins output in m3u8

• Beta – PeerTube – support known instances

• Beta – Transcript – WP filter hooks to disable dragging and sizing

• Beta – Vimeo – support 4K MP4 in quality switching

• Beta – Vimeo – support more URL styles, like https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/65107797

• Beta – Vimeo Security – allow MPEG-DASH Vimeo playback for iPad if there is no HLS

7.5.29 – 2022/09/20

• YouTube – only loading the player module if it’s necessary

Merging features and bugfixes from Beta into Release version:

• AB loop – fixing bad position on some websites
• DRM Text improvements
• Encrypted HLS – allowing Airplay
• Odysee support
• OK.ru support
• Scroll autoplay – respect muted autoplay for player
• Single autoplay – remember for 7 days only
• Timeline thumbnails touch support
• Universal CDN support
• Video ads fixes
• Vimeo channels – support

7.5.28.7210.beta – 2022/09/12

• Rumble support
• CSS – fixing bad AB loop video position on some websites

7.5.27.7210 – 2022/08/23

• Bugfix – PHP 8.1 bug with Ajax loading of video

• Bugfix – Vimeo – Process API rate limitting fix

• Beta – Chapters support in playlist

• Beta – DRM Text resilience to CSS changes

• Beta – Bugfix – HLS decryption key name matching multiple videos

• Beta – Bugfix – Odysee splash screen fetching fix

7.5.26.7210 – 2022/07/11

• Beta – prevent Fatal Error if FV Player is not active

7.5.25.7210 – 2022/07/06

• AB loop – fix for bigger timeline hover area

• AB loop – fix positioning for audio player

• DRM text – disabled for audio player

• Security – hide sensitive information in settings pannels (the Secure Access Keys, requires FV Player Pro 7.5.25.727 if installed)

• Beta – Bunny Stream Download support

• Beta – Bunny Stream Secure Token support

• Beta – DRM Text – more resilient

• Beta – Improvements for FV Player Alternative Sources

7.5.23.728 – 2022/06/08

• AB loop – fix spacing for new FV Player versions
• Video Ads – disabled for audio streams
• Video Ads – fix wp-admin -> FV Player -> Video Ads for editors
• YouTube – fix for muted audio detection on desktop Safari and on iPad
• Beta – Audio play – show duration in control bar before playing
• Beta – DRM text – resizing fix when entering fullscreen
• Beta – Stream Loader – allow AirPlay for logged in users
• Beta – Stream Loader – make sure AppleTV gets the best quality (1080p at least)
• Beta – Timeline Previews – show on mobile when dragging the timeline

7.5.19.727 – 2022/03/24

• Bugfix – Custom start/end time – fix for YouTube videos
• Bugfix – YouTube – fix volume in playlists
• Compatibility fix for Elementor
• Beta – Autoplay just once – remember only for 1 week
• Beta – Scroll autoplay – respect muted autoplay for player

7.5.18.727 – 2022/03/09

• YouTube autoplay fix – muted autoplay only allowed, at least for now. Seems like Chrome is more restrictive now and even the MEI score does not help.

7.5.17.727.beta – 2022/02/26

• Beta – YouTube autoplay fix – muted autoplay only allowed, at least for now. Then first click anywhere in the document will unmute the video. Seems like Chrome is more restrictive now and even the MEI score does not help. But that click helps.

7.5.16.727 – 2022/02/15

• Bugfix – Editor – fix parsing of ab and chapter legacy shortcode args
• Bugfix – Encrypted HLS – fix trailing slash handling
• Bugfix – Stream Loader – WordPress 5.9 deprecation warning fix
• Bugfix – Timeline chapters – fix durations for legacy shortcodes
• Bugfix – Vimeo SDK – fix error handling

7.5.15.727 – 2022/02/02

• Downloads – fix processing of files with spaces in URL
• Vimeo – fix video loading fallback – change in the Vimeo API
• Beta – DRM Text – avoid display issues when using AB loop or fixed control bar

Merging features and bugfixes from Beta into Release version:

• AB loop – use 30% of remaining time when enabling
• Chapters markers on video timeline, visible even before playing the video
• Vimeo – Process API rate limitting
• Vimeo – use Vimeo video passwords properly
• YouTube – setting to use cookies

7.5.14.727 – 2022/01/21

• Bugfix – broken Video Ads click and skip tracking
• Compatibility – Elementor fixes
• Translations – added German translations for front-end buttons
• Beta – AB loop – use 30% of remaining time when enabling
• Beta – Odysee – fixes for anonymous videos and special characters
• Beta – Stream Loader – fix #EXT-X-BITRATE parsing
• Beta – Stream Loader – improvements for Viloud support
• Beta – YouTube – setting to use cookies

7.5.11.727 – 2021/10/14

• Custom start/end – fix volume restoring to previously set level
• Custom start/end – fix when using together with autoplay and Vimeo
• Custom start/end – fix when using on iOS to not pause the video
• Vimeo – fix bug with FV Player Vimeo Live Streaming when primary API fails
• Beta – Custom start/end time – bugfix for playlists
• Beta – Downloads – support Vimeo Album, Channel, Portfolio or Showcase
• Beta – Stream Loader – clear error stats each day
• Beta – Vimeo – API Rate Limitting support
• Beta – Vimeo – use Vimeo video passwords properly

7.5.10.727 – 2021/09/27

• Splash image caching fix
• Beta – Chapters markers on video timeline visible before playing the video
• Beta – Stream Loader – send email warning based on % of failed request
• Beta – Stream Loader – show domain stats in settings box
• Beta – Vimeo – Process API rate limitting
• Beta – Vimeo – Turbocharge Ajax Vimeo loading – fallback API fix

7.5.7.727 – 2021/09/21

• Bugfix – Vimeo fallback API fix

7.5.6.727 – 2021/09/21

• Bugfix – PHP crashing on pages with FV Player and VTT chapters

7.5.5.727 – 2021/09/20

• Vimeo – button to refresh splash screens and durations
• Bugfix – YouTube splash screen display fix for mobile

7.5.5.727.beta – 2021/09/09

• Beta – Chapter markers on video timeline
• Beta – Vimeo – button to refresh splash screens and durations
• Beta – YouTube splash screen display fix for mobile

7.5.4.727.beta – 2021/08/17

• Beta – Odysee support
• Beta – OK.ru support
• Beta – Universal CDN support

7.5.2.727 – 2021/08/02

• Interactive Transcript – improved the caching routine to use the last good transcript if HTTP fails
• Chapters – fixed button in the full-screen
• Vimeo Chapters – automatically loaded from Vimeo when inserting new videos
• Bugfix – Elementor compatbility – AB loop noUISlider only loaded when actually used
• Bugfix – HLS decrpytion error removed if the video starts playing after the timeout
• Bugfix – Vimeo playing muted for first-time users when started by a chapter click or when remembering video position

7.5.0.727 – 2021/06/23

• FV Player 7.5.0.727 required

Merging features and bugfixes from Beta into Release version:

• AB loop – create loop from current time to +10% on activation
• AB loop – start and end added to the Video Link feature
• Chromecast – setting to enable for encrypted HLS videos
• Cloudflare WAF setting
• Stream Loader – fall back to old cache on failures
• Transcript sizing improvement when entering fullscreen
• YouTube – fix for fixed controlbar used together with the no logo option
• YouTube – using youtube-nocookie.com domain for embeds

7.4.48.727.beta – 2021/05/24

• Bugfix – Encrypted HLS streams with separate audio track failing on Cloudflare when WAF enabled

7.4.47.727 – 2021/05/18

• Chapters – do not show the milliseconds
• Cloudflare – detect the original user IP to improve encrypted HLS reliability
• DRM Text – new settings: show and hide parts of the message, added opacity slider
• Encrypted HLS – fix for latest version of HLS.js for reliable playback on desktop and Android
• Video ads – skip button styling more resilient
• Beta – YouTube – fix for fixed controlbar used together with the no logo option

7.4.46.727.beta – 2021/04/09

• Beta – Encrypted HLS – faster and more secure for separate audio track streams

7.4.45.727 – 2021/03/31

• Fix for FV Player upgrade issues, please upgrade before FV Player

7.4.45.727.beta – 2021/03/24

• Fix for FV Player upgrade issues

7.4.44.727 – 2021/03/23

• Stream Loader – fix for encrypted streams with audio tracks
• YouTube – bugfix for long live streams which caused browser to stop responding
• Beta – Stream Loader – bugfix for the FV Player Pay Per View Preview videos

7.4.43.727.beta – 2021/03/12

• Beta – DRM Text – fixes for Firefox Picture-in-Picture for FV Player VAST
• Beta – YouTube – fixes for FV Player VAST

7.4.42.727 – 2021/03/10

• DRM Text – prevent display issue in Firefox, like video extending out of player container

7.4.40.727 – 2021/03/04

• Chapters menu in fullscreen – AB loop links added

Merging features and bugfixes from Beta into Release version:

• AB loop – create loop from current time to +10% on activation
• AB loop – use x shortcut to disable
• AB loop – playlist fixes, visual improvements
• Ajax loading for CDN URL tokens – improving processing to allow multiple CDNs for a single video
• Chapters – fixes when clicked before the player is playing the video
• Chapters – fixes when video ad is placed before a video with chapters
• Custom start/end time – bugfix for left/right keyboard shortcuts
• Custom start/end time – showing timeline tooltip with the video position time
• FV Player Alternative Sources fixes
• DRM Text – added preset setting to choose between a hard to notice flash of DRM text and a permanent watermark
• DRM Text – removing Firefox Picture-in-Picture button
• Interactive Transcript – added “Preserve original formatting” setting to prevent automated formating of the transcript text
• Interactive Transcript – playlist support, button to collapse the box
• jQuery warnings removed
• Quality switching – live check of video qualities – qualities which are not present are removed from menu
• Stream Loader bugfixes
• YouTube – fix for bad seek event fired

More improvements in the Beta release:

• Chapters menu in fullscreen gets the AB loop links
• Transcript sizing improvement when entering fullscreen

7.4.39.727 – 2021/01/20

• Compatibility – YouTube – BuddyBoss theme compatibility fix
• Stream Loader – added button to clear the Stream Loader cache
• Bugfix – Downloads – fixing the settings box which disappeared
• Bugfix – Stream Loader – fix for HTTP range request serving
• Bugfix – Stream Loader – fixing parsing for HLS streams with multiple audio tracks or EXT-X-MAP

More improvements in the Beta release:

• Beta – AB loop – create loop from current time to +10% on activation
• Beta – Ajax loading for CDN URL tokens – improving processing to allow multiple CDNs for a single video
• Beta – FV Player Alternative Sources fixes
• Beta – DRM Text – removing Firefox Picture-in-Picture button
• Beta – jQuery warnings removed
• Beta – Quality switching – live check of video qualities – qualities which are not present are removed from menu
• Beta – YouTube – fix for bad seek event fired

7.4.38.727.beta – 2020/11/11

• Beta – AB loop – automatically creating a loop from current position to +10 seconds when enabled
• Beta – AB loop – use x shortcut to disable
• Beta – AB loop – visual improvements
• Beta – Custom start/end time – bugfix for left/right keyboard shortcuts
• Beta – Custom start/end time – showing timeline tooltip with the video position time
• Beta – DRM Text – added preset setting to choose between a hard to notice flash of DRM text and a permanent watermark
• Beta – Interactive Transcript – added “Preserve original formatting” setting to prevent automated formating of the transcript text
• Beta – Interactive Transcript – playlist support
• Beta – Stream Loader – added button to clear the Stream Loader cache
• Beta – Stream Loader – fixing parsing for HLS streams with multiple audio tracks or EXT-X-MAP

7.4.37.727.beta – 2020/10/29

• Stream Loader – setting to allow serving of HLS streams from CDNs with URL tokens
• Stream Loader – support for VTT sprite files for timeline previews
• Stream Loader – “Speed-Up” setting (beta)

7.4.36.727.beta – 2020/10/22

• Beta – Chapters – fixes when clicked before the player is playing the video
• Beta – Chapters – fixes when video ad is placed before a video with chapters

7.4.35.727 – 2020/10/22

• New feature – VTT Video timeline previews support
• Stream loader – fix for preview of saved video URL change
• Video timeline previews – now deprecated in favor of VTT Video timeline previews
• Vimeo – better error message for API error
• Bugfix – Fix for PHP warnings related to Vimeo with Dash disable
• Beta – AB loop – allow “i” and “o” hotkeys to enable the loop bar
• Beta – AB loop – fixes for playlist
• Beta – AB loop – fixes for videos with custom start/end time

7.4.33.727 – 2020/08/24

Merging features and bugfixes from Beta into Release version:

• Chromecast fix
• Editor fixes for quality switching and transcript preview
• New feature – Stream Loader – lets you serve HLS streams with URL tokens from BunnyCDN
• Transcript formatting improvements

7.4.32.727.beta – 2020/08/20

• Beta – New feature – Stream Loader – lets you serve HLS streams with URL tokens from BunnyCDN

7.4.31.727 – 2020/08/03

• Vimeo – fix for Vimeo Video file links (MP4 or HLS) not playing
• Beta – Vimeo Album, Channel, Portfolio or Showcase – fix for backround cron processing in case of HTTP failures
• Beta – Vimeo Album, Channel, Portfolio or Showcase – putting back the improvement which let you specify a custom splash screen

7.4.30.727 – 2020/07/30

• Vimeo Album, Channel Portfolio or Showcase – Shortcode fix – reverting the improvement which let you specify a custom splash screen due to bug which needs a proper fix and testing

7.4.29.727.beta – 2020/07/3

• Beta – Chromecast fix

= 7.4.28.727 – 2020/07/23

• Bugfix – playlist style shortcode attribute was being ignored

7.4.27.727 – 2020/07/22

• FV Player 7.4.24.727 required
• Encryption support for FV Player Coconut

Merging features and bugfixes from Beta into Release version:

• AB loop – bugfix when not using custom start/end video times
• Ajax recovery routine – bugfix, as each error in playlist registered another handler, often leading to playback of first video in playlist by mistake
• Amazon Drive – support for amazon.fr and others
• Chapters – time formatting improvements
• CSS – splash image padding issues in some themes
• DigitalOcean Spaces – support for URL signature and Spaces browser
• Downloads – ability to use kind of shortcode
• Downloads – ability to use with playlists and Vimeo videos
• DRM Text – obsfucating the user details in the HTML code
• Encrypted HLS – block key access for Coc Coc and Ffmpeg
• iOS gets much longer URL token expiration to increase stability
• Quality Switching – fix for AWS S3 URL signature not being applied properly for different video qualities
• Scroll Autoplay – added setting to make it also work when scrolling up and not stop autoplaying other videos on page if user paused some video
• Scroll Autoplay – enabling for mobile, with exception of YouTube on iOS
• Start/end time – fix for bad time appearing briefly at start of video and then at the end of video
• Video Ads – new skip button styling without any unnecessary text
• Video Ads – fix for the playlist menu
• Video Ads – fix when used together with chapters on the actual video
• Video Ads – show unmute button when ad is muted due to autoplay
• Video Ads settings are now available in wp-admin -> FV Player -> Video Ads, so that Editors can manage them too
• Vimeo – Chromecast fix
• Vimeo – improving API server picking to try another server even when there is a soft error (bad response, not just server down)
• Vimeo channel/album/portfolio updates now happen every 15 minutes in a background cron job when using database
• Vimeo fixes for live streaming extension
• Vimeo recovery routine – bugfix, make sure to update FV Player as well
• VTT chapters – improving time formatting and jump to player when clicking chapters
• YouTube playlist updates now happen every 15 minutes in a background cron job when using database

7.4.26.727.beta – 2020/07/02

• Beta – Amazon Drive – support for amazon.fr and others
• Beta – Vimeo – improving API server picking to try another server even when there is a soft error (bad response, not just server down)

7.4.25.727.beta – 2020/06/30

• Beta – AB loop – bugfix when not using custom start/end video times
• Beta – CSS – splash image padding issues in some themes
• Beta – Encrypted HLS – block key access for Coc Coc and Ffmpeg
• Beta – Vimeo fixes for live streaming extension

7.4.24.727.beta – 2020/06/11

• Beta – Vimeo channel/album/portfolio updates now happen every 15 minutes in a background cron job when using database
• Beta – YouTube playlist updates now happen every 15 minutes in a background cron job when using database

7.4.23.727.beta – 2020/06/08

• Beta – AB loop – making it work with custom start/end video times
• Beta – Chapters – time formatting improvements
• Beta – Video Ads – show unmute button when ad is muted due to autoplay
• Beta – Vimeo – Chromecast fix

7.4.22.727 – 2020/05/08

• Protecting videos against recording with JavaScript API calls

7.4.21.727.beta – 2020/05/07

• Beta – Start/end time – fix for bad time appearing briefly at start of video and then at the end of video
• Beta – Vimeo recovery routine – bugfix, make sure to update FV Player as well

7.4.20.727.beta – 2020/04/25

• Beta – Ajax recovery routine – bugfix, as each error in playlist registered another handler, often leading to playback of first video in playlist by mistake

7.4.19.727.beta – 2020/04/16

• Beta – New feature – Video timeline previews – supports sprite images, settings for single thumbnail size, number of columns in the sprite and interval between thumbs
• Beta – DRM Text – obsfucating the user details in the HTML code
• Beta – iOS gets much longer URL token expiration to increase stability
• Beta – Scroll Autoplay – enabling to also work on mobile, with exception of YouTube on iOS
• Beta – Scroll Autoplay – added setting to make it also work when scrolling up and not stop autoplaying other videos on page if user paused some video

7.4.18.727.beta – 2020/04/14

• Beta – Encrypted HLS – preventing a certain Chrome extension from being able to download these streams

7.4.17.727.beta – 2020/03/25

• Beta – Vimeo Portfolio parsing – Bugfix – improving portfolio link detection to not catch the Skin preview Foliovision Vimeo video

7.4.16.727 – 2020/03/19

• YouTube bugfix – was failing to load on mobile after recent YouTube Iframe API updates
• Beta – Video Ads settings are now available in wp-admin -> FV Player -> Video Ads, so that Editors can manage them too

7.4.15.727 – 2020/01/29

• FV Player 7.4.14.727 required – otherwise auto splash images for Vimeo or YouTube might be missing
• Bugfix – fixing PHP warnings in the auto splash code for Vimeo and YouTube
• Beta – VTT chapters – improving time formatting
• Beta – VTT chapters – jump to player when clicking chapters

7.4.13.727.beta – 2020/01/21

• Beta – Quality Switching – fix for AWS S3 URL signature not being applied properly for different video qualities

7.4.12.727.beta – 2019/01/10

• Beta – Bugfix – Video Ads – bad countdown in some cases
• Beta – DigitalOcean Spaces – support for URL signature and Spaces browser

7.4.11.727.beta – 2019/01/02

• Beta – Bugfix – Chapters highlight
• Beta – Bugfix – Interactive Transcript highlight and autoscroll
• Beta – Bugfix – Video Ads – skip time and splash preview formatting

7.4.10.727.beta – 2019/12/12

• Beta – Vimeo Album, Channel Portfolio or Showcase – now you can enter it as the video source in the editor
• Beta – Video Ads – fix for the playlist menu appearing
• Beta – Video Ads – fix when used together with chapters on the actual video
• Beta – Video Ads – new skip button styling without any unnecessary text
• Beta – YouTube Channel or Playlist – now you can enter it as the video source in the editor
• Beta – Bugfix – preview not working for encrypted HLS streams

7.4.9.727 – 2019/12/09

• Encrypted HLS – bug fix to prevent download attempts from authorized users on player instances which are not stored in database

7.4.8.727.beta – 2019/10/23

• Beta – Video ads showing in controlbar playlist menu, fixing

7.4.7.727 – 2019/10/17

• Vimeo – fix for iOS 13 which supports MPEG-DASH video format, but it won’t play without second tap on the loading animation
• Beta – Downloads – ability to use kind of shortcode
• Beta – Downloads – ability to use with playlists
• Beta – Downloads – ability to use with Vimeo videos
• Beta – Vimeo – improvements to support latest FV Player Vimeo Security

7.4.6.727 – 2019/09/11

• Vimeo – playback reliability fixes
• Beta – Transcript – formatting improvements – inserting breaks when there is a 2 second pause or an empty line of subtitles

7.4.5.727.beta – 2019/09/06

• Beta – Vimeo – playback reliability fixes

7.4.4.727.beta – 2019/09/05

• Beta – Support for new FV Player Vimeo Live Streaming plugin

7.4.3.727.beta – 2019/09/03

• Beta – Vimeo playlist/channel/album – better JSON parsing

7.4.2.727 – 2019/08/30

• Vimeo – playback reliability fixes
• Vimeo – checking for cURL availability before loading Vimeo PHP library
• AB loop – making sure timeline tooltip shows on a single line

7.4.0.727 – 2019/07/31

• YouTube – bug fix for mobile playback for FV Player 7.4.0.727

7.3.19.727 – 2019/07/15

Merging features and bugfixes from Beta into Release version:

• New feature – Transcript – your can now freely drag and resize the transcript, check the new color settings too

• New feature – Watching prompt – shows a “Are you still watching?” kind of message to save bandwidth

• AB loop – new appearance

• Chapters – control bar menu for fullscreen

• Chromecast – fix for HLS streams

• Chromecast – fix for multiple players

• Downloads – setting to disable the right click notice when downloading videos

• Encrypted HLS – improved editor interface

• Encrypted HLS – support for hex encoded decryption keys (AWS MediaConvert)

• Quality switching – fix for playlist when using DB

• Support for FV Player Vimeo Security plugin

• Support for FV Player Vzaar plugin

• Transcript – hilight speed improvement

• Transcript – moving not working properly after fullscreen-exit

• Vimeo – improving reliability in Facebook app browser on Android

• Vimeo – logging API errors into a file when Debug is set to “Verbose”

• Vimeo – Album and Portfolio support

• Vimeo – Quality Switching always on, removing the setting

• YouTube – fix for AB loop when the logo is disabled

7.3.20.727.beta – 2019/07/15

• Beta – Vimeo video picker for editor

7.3.19.727.beta – 2019/07/09

• Beta – bugfix for previous release

7.3.18.727.beta – 2019/07/08

• Beta – support for FV Player Vimeo Security plugin

7.3.17.727.beta – 2019/06/26

• Beta – Downloads – setting to disable the right click notice when downloading videos
• Beta – support for FV Player Vimeo Security plugin
• Beta – support for FV Player Vzaar plugin
• Beta – Transcript – fixing typo in “Error loading trascript. Please try again in a minute.”
• Beta – YouTube – fix for AB loop when the logo is disabled

7.3.16.727.beta – 2019/06/19

• Beta – AB loop – new appearance
• Beta – Chapters button icon
• Beta – Chromecast – fix for HLS streams
• Beta – Chromecast – fix for multiple players
• Beta – Vimeo portfolio support
• Beta – Vimeo streaming improvement for Samsung Browser 9
• Beta – Watching prompt – duplicity fix

7.3.13.727.beta – 2019/03/25

• Beta – Chapters menu for fullscreen
• Beta – Debug setting now can be set to “Verbose” for Vimeo API debugging
• Beta – Encrypted HLS – support for hex encoded decryption keys (AWS MediaConvert)
• Beta – Vimeo Quality Switching always on, removing the setting
• Beta – Transcript – don’t disable CC when turning off transcript.
• Beta – Transcript – hilight speed improvement

7.3.12.727 – 2019/02/26

• Fixing too frequent Vimeo cache purging
• AB loop – fixing button enabling with DB

7.3.11.727.beta – 2019/02/13

• Beta – Vimeo Album support – logging errors into
• Beta – Transcript – moving not working properly after fullscreen-exit

7.3.10.727 – 2019/02/07

• CloudFront – adding recovery if the URL has expired in middle of playback
• Beta – Vimeo Album support – use

7.3.9.727 – 2019/01/25

• YouTube – fix for speed control after YouTube API changes

Merging bugfixes from Beta into Release version:

• YouTube – initial playlist item click on mobile was always playing the first item
• Vimeo – improving reliability in Facebook app browser on Android

7.3.8.727.beta – 2019/01/11

• Beta – Encrypted HLS – bugfix for improved editor interface
• Beta – New feature – Watching prompt – shows a “Are you still watching?” kind of message to save bandwidth

7.3.7.727 – 2019/01/09

• YouTube – fix for video size when using the logo option
• Beta – Quality switching – fix for playlist when using DB

7.3.6.727.beta – 2019/01/08

• Beta – Encrypted HLS – improving editor interface
• Beta – Vimeo – improving reliability in Facebook app browser on Android

7.3.5.727.beta – 2018/12/19

• Beta – Transcript – fixing dragging and resizing for touch displays
• Beta – Transcript – fullscreen usability fixes
• Beta – YouTube – fixes for playlists consisting of YouTube and MP4 videos which are started by tapping the MP4 video on mobile

7.3.4.727.beta – 2018/12/07

• Bugfix – YouTube – initial playlist item click on mobile was always playing the first item

Merging bugfixes from Beta into Release version:

• Chromecast – adding support for Vimeo
• Downloads – improving login check for aMember
• Encrypted HLS – moving the decryption key into the Video tab properly
• Exoclick performance fix
• Vimeo – adding a list of Vimeo API errors to the settings box
• Vimeo – Android < 6 and Samsung browser stability improvements – it won’t play HLS reliably, we recommend using Chrome or Firefox on it
• YouTube – it has deprecated the API settings to disable the video title bar and related posts, making a note of that next to the “no logo” option

7.3.3.727.beta – 2018/12/03

• Beta – Transcript – your can now freely drag and resize the transcript
• Beta – Transcript – fullscreen support
• Beta – Transcript – added 3 design options – Light, Boxy, Dark
• Beta – Transcript – added option to show hidden by default – adds a control bar button

7.3.2.727.beta – 2018/11/27

• Beta – Downloads – improving login check for aMember.
• Beta – Performance – reverting the change: only loading HLS.js and Dash.js when needed
• Beta – Vimeo – Android < 6 and Samsung browser stability improvements – it won’t play HLS reliably, we recommend using Chrome or Firefox on it

7.3.1.727 – 2018/11/19

• Fixes for FV Player 7.3.0.727 database storage – encrypted HLS and chapters

7.3.0.727 – 2018/11/16

• Fixes for FV Player 7.3.0.727 database storage

• Vimeo – fixing cache purging when Turbocharge Ajax option is enabled

• Beta – Vimeo – fixing Dash version check to be more reliable

7.2.11.727.beta – 2018/11/15

• Beta – reverting the error handling for videos errors on iOS and Safari. Better fix in next FV Player base plugin version
• Beta – Vimeo – adding a list of Vimeo API errors to the settings box
• Beta – YouTube – it has deprecated the API settings to disable the video title bar and related posts, making a note of that next to the “no logo” option

7.2.10.727.beta – 2018/11/08

• Beta – proper error handling for videos errors which might occur during playback on iOS and in Safari

7.2.9.727 – 2018/10/29

• Amazon S3, KeyCDN and others – Ajax recovery fix

• Downloads – ensuring download requires right click only if video link is external

• Start/end time – fix for iOS

• YouTube – iPhone pausing fix

• Beta – Start/end time – removing the sound glitch at the start of videos (mainly YouTube and MP4 on iOS)

7.2.8.727.beta – 2018/10/22

• fixing Amazon S3 recovery
• Exoclick performance fix

7.2.5.727.beta – 2018/10/17

• Letting Android use HLS.js for HLS streams

7.2.4.727.beta – 2018/10/11

• Chromecast – fix for CloudFront.
• Fix for Samsung Internet browser version 6
• Performance – only loading HLS.js and Dash.js when needed

7.2.3.727.beta – 2018/10/03

• Chromecast – adding support for Vimeo

7.2.2.727.beta – 2018/09/22

• YouTube – iPhone pausing fix

7.2.1.727 – 2018/09/26

• Vimeo – Android with Chrome at least 68 is able to play MPEG-DASH streams which are more reliable than HLS
• Bugfix – getting rid of autoload for wp_options

7.2.0.727 – 2018/09/18

• More Android 9 detection fixes

7.1.15.727 – 2018/09/13

• YouTube – fix for Android 9
• Vimeo and YouTube embed code conversion – now working with not only post content but also post meta

7.1.14.727 – 2018/09/03

Merging Beta features into Release version. FV Player 7 is required.

• AB loop – new AB loop bar design
• YouTube – autoplay fixes
• YouTube – quality switching has been deprecated, unfortunately
• Quality Switching – fix if the initial video quality is missing
• Quality Switching – putting quality label on the button in controlbar
• Vimeo – MPEG-DASH is the new default, loading with no temporary files created

6.6.7 – 2018/07/26

• YouTube – fixing preload for iOS and Android

6.6.6 – 2018/07/18

• Fix for popup and ad codes in shortcodes being damaged when obtaining splash screen from Vimeo or YouTube
• Vimeo Interactive Transcripts – settings wp_option to not autoload to reduce SQL traffic

Bugfixes for FV Player 7 Beta users, FV Player Pro 7.1.11.726:

• Vimeo fix for MS Edge
• preparations for FV Player DB!
• fix for YouTube volume when using with FV Player VAST ad
• fix for YouTube preloading interferring with FV Player VAST on Ajax completion
• fix for Fancybox with YouTube on mobile.
• fix for Vimeo resuming after a failure – start at the right time

6.6.3.1 – 2018/06/19

• Bad Chrome 66 detection causing scroll autoplay to break video playback on Chrome 66 and 67 for first time visitors

6.6.3 – 2018/06/19

• Vimeo MPEG-DASH is now enabled by default

FV Player 7 Beta improvements, version 7.1.2.726:

• Quality switching button label now shows what video quality is being used
• Vimeo MPEG-DASH is now enabled by default
• YouTube – removing quality switching as it has been deprecated by YouTube player API

6.6.1 – 2018/05/31

FV Player Pro 7 Beta available for all Beta users! All Beta users get to FV Player 7 automatically, but you can still switch back to Release. Read more details at: https://foliovision.com/2018/05/fv-player-7-beta

FV Player 7 Beta improvements, version 7.0.726:

• Beta – using Flowplayer 7.2.6 core (requires FV Player base plugin upgrade)
• Beta – AB loop improvements – full width and showing timestamps
• Beta – Quality buttons moved to control bar
• Beta – Video ads can now show in between playlist items, just enable “Pre-roll & post-roll ads between videos”
• Beta – Vimeo embed is no longer exposing the MPD file making it harder to download
• Beta – YouTube clicks are no longer restricted so 360 video rotation works, but you can still use the option

Beta features were moved into the main release:

• Amazon S3 Ajax – recovering playback errors if the video link has timed out and seeking into unbuffered position
• Applying URL signature to chapters and transcript
• DRM Text – moved to its own box in settings
• DRM Text – added setting for interval, thanks to Bradley Stevens
• DRM Text – fixed positioning for fullscreen when video doesn’t match the screen aspect ratio
• StackPath – recovering playback errors with Ajax
• Video Download – adding expiration time and signature to the button URL and more detailed logs are sent to Simple History plugin
• Video Download – showing a ‘Please click again with right mouse button and select “Save As…”‘ hint to users of Firefox, Sa11 and IE as these don’t support download attribute of anchors
• Vimeo – adding Preferred API location setting – If most of your visitors come from Asia, we recommend using that location.
• Vimeo – making sure Android plays the HLS streams rather than MP4 for increased stability

0.9.19 – 2018/05/14

• Bugfix – CSS loading bug caused by the bugfix for WP dependency system affecting some unusual FV Player setups

0.9.18 – 2018/05/10

• Beta – Important fix to prevent PHP fatal error when upgrading FV Player

0.9.17.1 – 2018/05/07

• Bugfix – using WP dependency system to load the plugin CSS properly only when needed
• Beta – CloudFront fix – conflict with Wistia

0.9.17 – 2018/05/03

• Encrypted HLS – bugfix for strange wpdb::insert() issue
• Exoclick ads – fixing ad responsiveness for slower ad loading
• Vimeo – fixing issues for iOS < 10
• Beta – Applying URL signature to chapters and transcript
• Beta – Wistia support
• Beta – StackPath – recovering playback errors with Ajax

0.9.16 – 2018/03/16

• Exoclick ads – fixing ad responsiveness for mobile screens
• Exoclick ads – updating the ad script URL
• Exoclick ads – only zone ID is required
• Scroll Autoplay – respecting if the player is disabled
• Shortcode editor – showing the start/end time fields when YouTube or Vimeo URL with start time (?t= or #t=) is pasted in as source
• Transcript – fix for PHP warnings which appeared for some VTT files
• Beta – DRM Text – moved to its own box in settings
• Beta – DRM Text – added setting for interval, thanks to Bradley Stevens
• Beta – DRM Text – fixed positioning for fullscreen when video doesn’t match the screen aspect ratio
• Beta – Video Download – adding expiration time and signature to the button URL and more detailed logs are sent to Simple History plugin

0.9.15 – 2018/02/22

• YouTube – improving splash screen fetching – resolution and aspect ratio
• Beta – Vimeo – making Android plays the HLS streams rather than MP4

0.9.14 – 2018/01/23

• Amazon S3 Ajax – fixing to work with AWS Signature Version 4 (S3 bucket for which region is configured)
• Video Download – showing button only to logged in users
• Beta – Video Download – showing a ‘Please click again with right mouse button and select “Save As…”‘ hint to users of Firefox, Safari < 11 and IE as these don’t support download attribute of anchors

0.9.13 – 2018/01/12

• Translations – added Polish translation for the video ad phrases
• Video Download – hard failure if the login check fails
• Beta – Amazon S3 Ajax – recovering playback errors if the video link has timed out and you seek into unbuffered position
• Beta – Vimeo – adding Preferred API location setting – If most of your visitors come from Asia, we recommend using that location.

0.9.11 – 2017/12/04

• Vimeo – allowing you to use engine=”html5″ in the shortcode to force FV Player if “Force iframe Embedding” is enabled in wp-admin -> FV Player -> Settings -> Hosting -> Vimeo

0.9.10 – 2017/11/24

• Encrypted HLS – stopping the autoplay – fix for FV Player VAST users

0.9.9 – 2017/11/22

• Encrypted HLS – stopping the autoplay functionality for these videos as it’s not compatible
• Translations – Italian and Turkish translation for the video ad phrases

0.9.8 – 2017/11/20

• Bugfix – Scroll autoplay – disabling for Safari 11 as we need to upgrade to Flowplayer 7 to support autoplay on it

0.9.7 – 2017/11/16

• Bugfix – Video Linking feature failing when using Vimeo quality switching with MP4 files, also upgrade FV Player free plugin
• Bugfix – YouTube subtitles in playlist

0.9.6 – 2017/11/10

• Reverting the Beta Vimeo change – needs more testing

0.9.5 – 2017/11/10

• Beta – Vimeo – making sure HLS streams are used for Android >= 6 as Vimeo MP4s are sometimes unstable

0.9.4 – 2017/11/09

• Bugfix – Quality Switching – was not working for videos without Ajax loading

0.9.3 – 2017/11/07

• Video Ads – if your custom video ad is on YouTube, it will only be served to mobile users if the device is iOS >= 10 or Android >= 6
• Video Ads – new setting – Disable Video Ads for mobile

0.9.2 – 2017/11/06

• Vimeo – Bugfix for quality switching when using DASH with some videos

0.9.1 – 2017/10/30

• Encrypted HLS – bugfix

0.9 – 2017/10/30

Beta features were moved into the main release:

• Autoplay just once fix

• BunnyCDN – new CDN with hotlinking protection added – thanks to Freddie Ramos

• Chapters – clicking chapter label now changes the chapter as well as clicking the timestamp

• CloudFront – applying the URL signature to splash images as well

• Encrypted HLS – stability fixes

• Processing shortcodes in meta fields (duration check, splash screens)

• Shortcode editor fixes

• Video Ads – added “Limit ad playback” setting – each browser will get each ad only once per day

• Video Ads – stability fixes for YouTube

• Vimeo – Adding quality switching buttons for MPEG-DASH streams, make sure you enable Hosting -> Vimeo (Pro) -> Enable quality switching to get it.

• Vimeo – Fallback to secondary CDN if the primary one fails

• YouTube subtitles support

• Encrypted HLS – don’t use CloudFront URL signature even if it’s configured for it

• Encrypted HLS – increased the loading timeout from 20 to 60 seconds

• Encrypted HLS – improved handling of + symbols (blank space equivalent on AWS) in the stream URLs

0.8.41 – 2017/10/27

• Vimeo DASH fix – issues with Google Analytics tracking and buffer indicator since last release

0.8.40 – 2017/10/25

• Vimeo and CDN URL signature fix – Safari 11 was causing videos to fail loading as it applies the same restrictions as iOS Safari
• Beta – BunnyCDN – new CDN with hotlinking protection added

0.8.39 – 2017/10/18

• Beta – Vimeo – fix for MPEG-DASH streams not being used when quality switching was used with MP4 video previously
• Beta – Vimeo – fix for restoring of last quality selected

0.8.38 – 2017/10/17

• Encrypted HLS – bugfix for license acquisition URL handling

0.8.37 – 2017/10/13

• YouTube – fix for iOS 11
• YouTube – finally releasing beta improvements – subtitles support, reporting missing videos as “YouTube video removed” to Google Analytics, skip to next video in playlist if it’s missing
• Bugfix – Autoplay just once fix

0.8.36 – 2017/10/04

• YouTube – preventing native YouTube fullscreen mode on double click

0.8.35 – 2017/09/28

• Beta – AB loop – when activated the control bar will not disappear anymore and adding help notices for users
• Beta – Autoplay just once fix
• Beta – Chapters – fix for shortcode editor and HTML adjustments
• Beta – CloudFront URL signature – applying to splash images as well, allowing you to store it in same S3 bucket as video
• Beta – Processing shortcodes in meta fields (duration check, splash screens)
• Beta – Video Ads – added “Limit ad playback” setting – each browser will get each ad only once per day

0.8.34 – 2017/09/22

• Start/end time – fix for start time not working

0.8.33 – 2017/09/20

• DRM Text – fix for 0 opacity when using OptimizePress

0.8.32 – 2017/09/19

• Start/end time – fix for playlist editing

0.8.31 – 2017/09/18

• Amazon Drive – lowering cache timeout
• Start/end time – fix for playlists

0.8.30 – 2017/09/04

• Encrypted HLS – fix for OptimizePress tabs and license acquisition URLs with weird characters
• Vimeo – fix for control bar display glitch when starting playback of a DASH stream
• Beta – Vimeo – fallback for HLS stream failures
• Beta – Vimeo – fixing quality switching button display bug

0.8.29 – 2017/08/24

• Vimeo – fix for Cloudflare email protection breaking Vimeo videos

0.8.28 – 2017/08/15

• Vimeo – fix for loading of long videos

0.8.27 – 2017/08/10

• Vimeo – if you experience issues with video playback please switch to beta: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta
• Beta – Vimeo – important fix – fallback to secondary CDN if the primary one fails.

0.8.26 – 2017/08/08

• FV Player Pro scripts are no longer automatically excluded from WP Rocket JS combine as there is no reason for it anymore

0.8.25 – 2017/07/26

• Encrypted HLS – bugfix for decrpytion key loaded from post revision
• Fix for bad splash image aspect ratio caused by YouTube
• Vimeo – HLS streams won’t play on iOS < 10 anymore, adjusting to use MP4 there
• Vimeo – HLS – fix for subtitles appearing twice
• YouTube – Google Developer Key – adding last error to the settings screen
• Beta – YouTube subtitles support for mobile

0.8.24 – 2017/07/20

• Beta – YouTube subtitles support
• Beta – YouTube – lowering the wait on broken videos in playlist
• Beta – Allowing YouTube and Vimeo video length to be re-checked on post save if it’s zero

0.8.23 – 2017/07/10

• Beta – Vimeo – Adding quality switching buttons for MPEG-DASH streams, make sure you enable Hosting -> Vimeo (Pro) -> Enable quality switching to get it.
• Beta – Chapters – Clicking chapter label now changes the chapter as well as clicking the timestamp

0.8.22 – 2017/07/03

• Beta – Video Ads – making the code more resilient in case YouTube API fails to return the video duration or current time.

0.8.21 – 2017/06/27

• Beta – Encrypted HLS – improving the video decryption error notice not to say it’s Flash all the time and triggering it in a better way

0.8.20 – 2017/06/22

Beta features were moved into the main release:

• Fix for the Windows Mobile Phone 8 play icon missing
• Amazon Drive support!
• DRM text – making sure it also show the site address and picks position randomly
• Transcript – Fix for sorting of transcript longer than 1 hour
• Transcript – Improving formatting to include breaks is line ends a sentence and there was no break for 30 seconds
• Transcript – Improving URL parsing to handle URLs without hostname
• Video Ads – improving “Default ad skip time” to allow setting of minimum video ad duration to allow skipping (default: 10 seconds)
• Video Ads – making sure “Default ad skip time” can be set to 0 for instant ad skipping
• Video Ads – fix for post-roll ad playback when playlist auto-advance is disabled
• Video Ads – fix for video replay
• YouTube ads reenabled for modern phones (Android>=4.4 with Chrome>=56 and iOS>=10)
• YouTube – making sure YouTube video title shows in Google Analytics stats

More improvements:

• Beta – YouTube – reporting missing YouTube videos as “YouTube video removed” to Google Analytics

0.8.19 – 2017/06/20

• Encrypted HLS – increasing the load timeout from 15 to 30 seconds before showing the error message
• Beta – fix for the Windows Mobile Phone 8 play icon missing

0.8.18 – 2017/06/06

• Fix for CSS priority – issue casued by OptimizePress
• Beta – Amazon Drive support!

0.8.17- 2017/05/11

• Beta – DRM text – making sure it also show the site address and picks position randomly
• Beta – Transcript – Fix for sorting of transcript longer than 1 hour
• Beta – Transcript – Improving formatting to include breaks is line ends a sentence and there was no break for 30 seconds
• Beta – Transcript – Improving URL parsing to handle URLs without hostname
• Beta – Video Ads – improving “Default ad skip time” to allow setting of minimum video ad duration to allow skipping (default: 10 seconds)
• Beta – Video Ads – making sure “Default ad skip time” can be set to 0 for instant ad skipping

0.8.16 – 2017/05/03

• Beta – Video Ads – fix for post-roll ad playback when playlist auto-advance is disabled
• Beta – Video Ads – fix for video replay

0.8.15 – 2017/04/28

• YouTube – iPad iOS 7 fix for playback pausing
• Beta – YouTube ads reenabled for modern phones (Android>=4.4 with Chrome>=56 and iOS>=10)

0.8.14 – 2017/04/26

• Video Ads – YouTube – we received reports that some low-end mobile devices have issues when there is a video ad with a YouTube video. We are disabling the video ad playback when there is a YouTube video for mobile for now, until we figure out which low-end mobile devices should be excluded.
• YouTube – making sure YouTube video title shows in Google Analytics stats
• Bugfix – Vimeo and YouTube – fixing Video Link feature when iframe embedding is not enabled
• Bugfix – YouTube – fixing missing Flowplayer events
• Bugfix – YouTube – fixing seeking issues
• Bugfix – YouTube – fixing Video Link start time
• Beta – Video transcript – removing cue/chapter IDs

0.8.13 – 2017/04/13

• CSS – Making the Interactive Transcript buttons more resilient to theme styling
• Beta – Video Ads – YouTube – disabling for mobile
• Beta – YouTube – making sure YouTube video title shows in Google Analytics stats

0.8.12 – 2017/04/07

• Fix – Video Ads – hiding player logo during ad playback

0.8.11 – 2017/04/03

• Bugfix – Vimeo MPEG-DASH streams with separate A/V tracks

0.8.10 – 2017/03/24

• Fix – “Load FV Flowplayer JS everywhere” option not respected
• Fix – “FV Player” menu item position changed by FV Player Pro
• Beta – Bugfix – YouTube manual Quality Switching fixed. Unfortunatelly YouTube API still doesn’t support it very well.

0.8.9 – 2017/03/21

• Urgent bugfix – bad variable name for CloudFront protection in the JS in the last version

0.8.8 – 2017/03/20

• User AB Loop – disabling the previews for incompatible video formats (MPEG-DASH or HLS)
• Video ads – making sure the video ads auto-advanced to the main video even when playlist auto advance is disabled
• Vimeo – Windows Mobile Phone 8.1 compatibility fix (quality switching disabled for it, unfortunately)
• YouTube – making sure it loads all the time if “Load FV Flowplayer JS everywhere” is enabled

Beta features were moved into the main release:

• Chapters and Transcript – bugfix when both features are used together
• Download link shortcode with support of logging into Simple History
• DRM Text – shows user IP, login and time on top of the video for a blink of an eye to make it possible to detect who screencaptured your video if you find it on the internet
• KeyCDN – support for Secure Token added
• Lightbox code removed as it’s in the core FV Player plugin for a while now
• StackPath – support for Secure Token added
• Vimeo – plugin now detects the fastest server for Vimeo loading (North America, Europe, Asia)

0.8.6 – 2017/03/08

• Beta – Bugfix – CloudFlare – not working after the KeyCDN addition

0.8.5 – 2017/03/07

• Beta – KeyCDN – support for Secure Token added
• Beta – Vimeo – plugin now detects the fastest server for Vimeo loading (North America, Europe, Asia)

0.8.4 – 2017/02/27

• Beta – Download link shortcode with support of logging into Simple History
• Beta – Chapters and Transcript – bugfix when both features are used together
• Beta – Bugfix – YouTube – mobile splash screen, pause after seeking and start time after MP4 ad
• Beta – Video Ads – iPhone – showing buttons to visit the ad link after the ad playback ends

0.8.3 – 2017/02/22

• Bugfix – Vimeo and YouTube captions not storing in shortcode properly if there is a ” symbol
• Beta – DRM Text – shows user IP, login and time on top of the video for a blink of an eye to make it possible to detect who screencaptured your video if you find it on the internet
• Beta – Lightbox code removed as it’s in the core FV Player plugin for a while now
• Beta – User AB loop as a global option
• Beta – YouTube fullscreen exit scroll position fix

0.8.2 – 2017/02/16

• Disabling the FV Player Pro Welcome screen as it’s showing up all the time for some of the users

0.8.1 – 2017/02/14

• Bugfix – post saving issues on some websites
• Bugfix – YouTube splash screen appearing for MP4 files in mixed playlists
• Beta – Feature – DRM Text option which shows the user ID, IP and date on top of the video for a short period of time to put in a visible cue to make screen capturing harder

0.8 – 2017/02/09

Beta features were moved into the main release.

• Feature – Encrypted HLS support
• Feature – Video transcript, thanks to Randal Vaughn
• Feature – Vimeo loading speed up with option for “Turbocharged” loading
• Feature – Vimeo MPEG-DASH support
• Feature – Vimeo splash screens and video titles are parsed into the shortcode, you can use the “Disable video titles” checkbox to prevent this
• Feature – YouTube mobile fixes – improved loading
• Feature – YouTube splash screens and video titles are parsed into the shortcode, you can use the “Disable video titles” checkbox to prevent this
• Bugfix – Quality Switching – won’t fail if switching to a missing quality version file
• Bugfix – Vimeo – fix for loading if video smaller than 480px
• Translations – German translation improvements contributed by Helmar Rudolph http://www.helmar.org/
• Beta – StackPath – support for Secure Token added

0.7.47 – 2017/01/04

• Removing “FV Player” menu item of the free plugin, use “FV Player Pro”
• Beta – Vimeo – Speed up the Ajax calls by calling them earlier than WP Ajax – should speed up the loading by 200 – 500 ms for you
• Beta – Vimeo – Turbocharge Ajax Vimeo loading added – special mode which bypasses WordPress for Vimeo Ajax calls – good for busy websites

0.7.46 – 2016/12/22

• Beta – YouTube – fix for lightbox display on iOS

0.7.45 – 2016/12/15

• New shortcode editor support. Make sure you upgrade the free FV Player plugin to get it!
• Fix – Vimeo – update for splash screen caching

0.7.44 – 2016/12/13

• Beta – Feature – Amazon S3 – you can enable Hosting -> Amazon S3 Protected Content -> Amazon S3 Ajax option to increase your Amazon S3 video protection.
• Beta – Feature – Ads – support for Exoclick ads, check wp-admin -> FV Player -> Settings -> Actions -> Exoclick Ads
• Fix – Vimeo – library update
• Fix – Vimeo key check – reporting exceptions to the user

0.7.43 – 2016/12/09

• Fix – AB loop – changed lables to I and O, as these are the hotkeys for it
• Fix – AB loop – styling fixes when using fixed controlbar (controlbar=”yes”)
• Fix – VTT Chapters – issue with YouTube videos when playback was not started yet and the script was not in browser cache already

0.7.42 – 2016/12/07

• Vimeo – HLS streams not compatible with iOS lower than version 8, serving MP4 from now on
• Beta – Video transcript – fix for conflict with MyCred
• Beta – Vimeo – added option to enable MPEG-DASH playback

0.7.41 – 2016/12/05

• Fix for unneeded Vimeo and YouTube API calls on post save

0.7.40 – 2016/12/01

• Translations – fix

0.7.39 – 2016/11/30

• AMP – using iframes for Vimeo and YouTube if no playlist is used
• Beta – Video transcript – bugfix for badly sorted entries
• Fix for licensing HTTP calls when SSL not working.
• Translations – adding German and Czech translations

0.7.38 – 2016/11/08

• Beta – YouTube fixes for iPhone and iPad
• Beta – YouTube inline playback for iPhone with iOS 10
• Beta – User AB loop – improved keyboard controls
• Beta – Video transcript – improved formatting
• Beta – Video transcript – fix for autoscroll jumping up and down

0.7.37 – 2016/10/25

• Beta – AB loop – added keyboard controls (i and o)
• Beta – Video transcript feature – added search box

0.7.36 – 2016/10/19

• Beta – YouTube improvements for iPhone
• iPhone – improved support, the device doesn’t require use of native fullscreen

0.7.35 – 2016/10/13

• Beta – YouTube improvements for iPhone

0.7.34 – 2016/10/13

• Cloudfront URL signature – fix for RTMP streams with blank spaces in file names
• Quality Switching – fix for RTMP
• Beta – fix for PHP errror when saving post with no src in

0.7.33 – 2016/10/12

• Beta – Video transcript feature – shows VTT subtitles below the video in a clickable form with highlight
• Auto splash screen for YouTube and Vimeo videos outside of post content
• Video ads – Google Analytics fix for “Video Ad Click” and “Video Ad Skip”

0.7.32 – 2016/10/03

• Video ads – making it work again when using video lightbox – upgrade the base FV Player plugin to 6.0.5.6 to make it work
• Shortcode editor – fixes for duplicite lightbox attribute

0.7.31 – 2016/09/23

• Subtitles – fix for VTT subtitles on iPhone (iOS 7 and above)
• Beta – Encrypted HLS – bugfix for bad database table name
• Beta – YouTube – fix for playlist behavior on iPhone

0.7.30 – 2016/09/22

• Beta – YouTube – enabling our player interface for iPads again
• Beta – Encrypted HLS – putting back the missing “Amazon AWS Decoder (Pro)” settings box under Hosting tab

0.7.29 – 2016/09/20

• fix for AMP bug

0.7.28 – 2016/09/15

• fix for PHP Fatal Error when using certain PHP versions

0.7.27 – 2016/09/15

• fix for PHP Fatal Error when using certain PHP versions

0.7.26 – 2016/09/14

• Scroll Autoplay – JavaScript code moved to the main JS file for better minify/combine compatibility
• Vimeo – disabled non iframe embeding of vimeo videos
• Video ads – support for Google Analytics added
• Beta: Quality switching doesn’t hard fail when switching to a non-existing quality version of the video

0.7.25 – 2016/08/02

• Video ads – fix for video playback when empty ad is entered
• Video ads – temporarily disabling for lightboxed videos because of structural issues which we have to fix more carefully

0.7.24 – 2016/07/29

• Beta – Improvement to auto download of splash screens and captions

0.7.23 – 2016/07/28

• Beta – YouTube and Vimeo splash screen URLs and captions are now getting stored in the shortcodes.
• Settings – New settings tabs ( requires FV Player v 6.0.5.5+ )

0.7.22 – 2016/07/12

• YouTube – FV Player VAST compatbility fixes

0.7.21 – 2016/07/07

• YouTube – playlist fixes for iPhone

0.7.20 – 2016/07/06

• YouTube – small fixes

0.7.19 – 2016/06/30

• Beta – Encrypted HLS – Improved compatibility for PHP 5.2
• Lightbox – Pro hooks Bug fix

0.7.18 – 2016/06/21

• AB loop – CSS fixes for AB loop bar

0.7.17 – 2016/06/16

• Version switching – you can now easily switch FV Player Pro to its latest beta version, check the drop down at the top of the plugin settings screen
• Scroll autoplay – now works only when scrolling down the page
• Beta – improved YouTube loading for mobile (single click)
• Beta – support and tools for encrypted HLS

0.7.16 – 2016/06/03

• Custom Video Ads – fix

0.7.15 – 2016/06/02

• Fix for PHP errors

0.7.14 – 2016/06/02

• Scroll Autoplay – fix for Google Chrome on mobile – should not trigger at all

0.7.13 – 2016/05/30

• Bugfix – fix for PHP error on older PHP versions

0.7.12 – 2016/05/27

• Bugfix – fix for PHP error on older PHP versions

0.7.11 – 2016/05/27

• Vimeo – fixing bad quality switching label – 1280p to 1080p
• YouTube – making the mobile view respect controlbar=”no”

0.7.10 – 2016/05/26

• Chapters – added user interface for VTT chapters
• Start/End time – improved custom start/end time for videos

0.7.9 – 2016/05/18

• Vimeo – fix for default quality selection for mobile
• Vimeo – fix for repeated playback on iPhone
• YouTube – fix for mobile when playing HTML5 video after a YouTube video in playlist

0.7.8 – 2016/05/13

• Google Analytics – make sure you update FV Player (formerly FV WordPress Flowplayer) as the Vimeo title was removed from player element!
• Vimeo – fix for video title appearing as video tooltip

0.7.7 – 2016/05/11

• Autoplay – fix when using FV Flash engine

0.7.6 – 2016/05/10

• Compatibility fix – making the JS more resilient – works with adding new Array.prototype functions now.

0.7.5 – 2016/05/02

• CloudFront – fix for video checker when using blank spaces in URL

0.7.4 – 2016/04/29

• Bugfix – stray debug code causing post save issues

0.7.3 – 2016/04/29

• Compatibility fix for WP Ajax URLs

0.7.2 – 2016/04/27

• Fix for PHP warnings

0.7.1 – 2016/04/26

• PHP error fixes – greater compatibility

0.7 – 2016/04/26

• Vimeo – integration rewritten from scratch
• Vimeo – support for both local and Vimeo subtitles added
• CloudFront – integration rewritten from scratch
• General code clean-up

0.6.21 – 2016/04/11

• Horizontal flip button – Lefty view

0.6.20 – 2016/03/21

• Vimeo – added option to force Vimeo iframe embedding

0.6.19 – 2016/03/19

• YouTube – fix for ad display

0.6.18 – 2016/03/07

• SSL – fix for sites using https:// for wp-admin

0.6.17 – 2016/02/10

• VTT Chapters – fix for the end time – respects the chapter end time rather than start time of next chapter

0.6.16 – 2016/02/02

• VTT Chapters – added support for AB looping.
• VTT Chapters – fix for current chapter highlight

0.6.15 – 2016/01/27

• Lightbox – playlist items now show up in lightbox as separate items. Also removing some cumbersome lightbox init vars.
• Vimeo – access token check added
• VTT Chapters – nicer formatting for timestamps

0.6.14 – 2016/01/22

• Speed buttons – now working with YouTube videos, make sure you upgrade FV WordPress Flowplayer to the latest version as well!
• YouTube playlist – captions added! Simply add caption=”true” to your shortcode with YouTube playlist like
  

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0.6.13 – 2016/01/20

• YouTube – fix for parsing of URLs like http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=…&v=…

0.6.12 – 2015/12/23

• Scroll autoplay – new settings, currently in beta testing
• Vimeo – performance fix for site load time when a lot of videos are in cache (making the wp_options table big with too much rows in autoload)

0.6.11 – 2015/12/15

• Vimeo – support for Full HD resolution added

0.6.10 – 2015/12/14

• Vimeo – improved to not use WP Transients as these were unreliable on some websites

0.6.9 – 2015/12/11

• Vimeo – expiration time sometimes set too high, putting in a hard limit to prevent playback issues

0.6.8 – 2015/12/09

• Lightbox for images – adding compatibility with WP galleries and shortcodes
• Removing stray console.log which could break playback in old browsers

0.6.7 – 2015/12/08

• Support for iframe embedding – needs to be enabled in FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin Integrations box

0.6.6 – 2015/11/23

• Restrict Content Pro – fixing compatibility

0.6.5 – 2015/11/16

• YouTube – fixing VTT subtitles sync after seeking.

0.6.4 – 2015/11/12

• Critical update for any Vimeo users

0.6.3 – 2015/11/05

• Fix for detecting FV WordPress Flowplayer on WP Multisite
• Pay Per View – making sure the purchase is of the non-recurring type

0.6.2 – 2015/11/04

• IE8 compatibility fix

0.6.1 – 2015/10/29

• Pay Per View feature – first version for testers, integration with Restrict Content Pro: https://foliovision.com/player/pay-per-view

0.6 – 2015/10/26

• For for autoplay when enabled for multiple Vimeo videos on a single page

0.5.9 – 2015/10/21

• Fix for Custom Video Ads when using autoplay – please check your Vimeo videos which use autoplay

0.5.8 – 2015/10/21

• Fix for Custom Video Ads clicking when using YouTube

0.5.7 – 2015/10/20

• Fix for Custom Video Ads ad picking
• Fix for Custom Video Ads when using YouTube

0.5.6 – 2015/10/06

• Fix for AB loop in fullscreen

0.5.5 – 2015/10/05

• Fix for Vimeo playlist loading

0.5.4 – 2015/10/01

• Fix for Vimeo loading on iPad
• Fix for multipel YouTube videos on a single page

0.5.3 – 2015/09/10

• Custom Video Ads – now you can pick a specific video ad for each video or the entire website
• Lightbox quick links (a class=”colorbox” href=”your-video.mp4″) – fix for YouTube and Vimeo

0.5.2 – 2015/08/31

• Feature – Vimeo and YouTube embed code converter

0.5.1 – 2015/08/17

• Fix for delayed updates
• YouTube – fix for new ad position

0.5 – 2015/08/05

• FV Player Pro for FV Flowplayer 6 released

0.3.8 – 2015/07/22

• Update fix

0.3.7.1 – 2015/07/13

• Lightbox – fix for autoplay
• Vimeo – fix for Ajax requester check

0.3.7 – 2015/07/10

• Lightbox – CSS prefix has changed from cbox to fv_player_pro_box. If you use custom styling for our lightbox, you need to fix your class names. Sorry about inconvenience, but this was needed to improve our compatibility with various themes. If you are having issues use our support forums: https://foliovision.com/support

0.3.6 – 2015/06/18

• Lightbox – fix for Vimeo playback starting if lightbox closed during the video load
• Vimeo – “autoplay just once” fix

0.3.5 – 2015/06/16

• Fix for bad JavaScript link

0.3.4 – 2015/06/15

• Custom Video Ads – fix for playlists

0.3.3 – 2015/05/29

• Fix for broken transients caused by W3 Total Cache
• Vimeo – getting rid of using the element title for Google Analytics
• YouTube sizing fix

0.3.2 – 2015/05/28

• User AB Loop feature, thanks to John W. Tuggle
• New button design
• Start/end time can now be set for playlist items!
• YouTube – splash screen parsing fix

0.3.1.1 – 2015/05/19

• Fix for dynamic player install

0.3.1 – 2015/05/12

• Start/end time bugfix

0.3 – 2015/05/05

• Vimeo loading improved (faster and better mobile experience)
• CloudFront signed URLs (download protection) loading improved
• Vimeo channel support added
• YouTube duration parsing bugfix – was causing white screen on post saving in some cases
• YouTube playlist autoplay fix
• Custom Video Ads now show remaining time and a skip button

0.2.9.0.6 – 2015/04/08

• Video ads – fix for videos with controlbar=”no”

0.2.9.0.5 – 2015/04/01

• CSS – quality buttons more resilient
• Making removing of “Vimeo” from video tooltip optional
• Quality Switching fixes for iPad

0.2.9.0.4 – 2015/03/26

• Removing “Vimeo” from video tooltip

0.2.9.0.3 – 2015/03/12

• YouTube integration fix for Android – will use the HTML5 standard video controls, even for new Android due to issues with Samsung smartphone with Android 4.4.2

0.2.9.0.2 – 2015/03/05

• Fix for YouTube autoplay caused by unreliable onYouTubeIframeAPIReady (also uses document.body.appendChild instead of firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore)

0.2.9.0.1 – 2015/02/26

• Added indicator for whether the CloudFront Private Key is in a valid format
• Fix for YouTube splash image parsing. The API key now requires whitelisting of your server IP.

0.2.9 – 2015/01/14

• YouTube Ads fix for videos below 468px width

0.2.8 – 2015/01/08

• YouTube integration fix for Android < 4.3 – will use the HTML5 standard video controls, as older Android default browser has many bugs with the Youtube API

0.2.7 – 2015/01/08

• Fix for Vimeo video names in Google Analytics stats

0.2.6 – 2015/01/05

• Fix for Youtube fullscreen on Android. Unfotunatelly Youtube API player doesn’t work well on Android < 4.3.

0.2.5 – 2014/12/23

• Fix for video playback on lightbox enabled videos for mobile

0.2.4 – 2014/12/22

• Fix for video playback on quality switching enabled videos for iPhone

0.2.3 – 2014/12/09

• Warning notice added when FV WordPress Flowplayer isn’t installed or activated

0.2.2 – 2014/12/09

• Vimeo – improved loading for mobile users and quality switching improvements

0.2.1 – 2014/12/01

• fix for Lightbox splash image responsiveness

0.2 – 2014/11/20

• fix for dynamic playlist (Vimeo, CloudFront) autoplay
• YouTube playlist items duration fix

0.1.18 – 2014/11/13

• Youtube quality switching

0.1.17.3 – 2014/10/16

• video lightbox links

0.1.17.2 – 2014/10/13

• Vimeo quality switching added (beta)

0.1.17 – 2014/10/06

• fix for start/end time in seconds

0.1.16 – 2014/10/06

• easier video lightbox – type in click here to play video and it will be open a lightbox with the video playing
• fixed YouTube video end bug when using Google Analytics tracking
• Quality Switching interface improved
• (Beta) – added custom video ads (pre-roll, post-roll)
• (Beta) – added support for custom video start and end time

0.1.13 – 2014/09/29

• YouTube – added support for Google Developer API to parse the video durations and splash screens properly

0.1.12 – 2014/08/07 = * Warning fixes

0.1.10- 2014/08/21 = * fixing CloudFront signed URLs Flash bug

0.1.9 – 2014/08/07

• YouTube fix for Internet Explorer
• Quality switching enabled for HLS and other fixes
• YouTube support added (enable in settings first)!
• Vimeo splash screen parsing (re-save your post to take effect)

0.1.8 – 2014/07/07

• support for secured CloudFront

0.1.7.3 – 2014/06/19

• fixing PHP warnings

0.1.7.2 – 2014/06/17

• fixing image lightbox to add class only for images.
• bugfix for quality switching.

0.1.2 – 2014/06/13

• quality switching now happens live, without reloading of the webpage!

0.1.1 – 2014/05/30

• Pro – improved Vimeo error messages
• Pro – video lightbox now autoplays the video

0.1 – 2014/05/15

• Pro extension released! Adds support for video lightbox and advanced Vimeo embedding!