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    FV Player VAST Changelog

    7.4.42.727 – 2021/03/12

    • Autoplay support for mobile – iOS 14 and above, Chrome 83 and above

    7.4.40.727 – 2021/01/22

    • Google Analytics – tracking fix after FV Player 7.4.38.727

    7.4.39.727 – 2021/01/22

    • Critical fix for VAST URL parsing

    7.4.15.727 – 2020/03/12

    • Autoplay – fixing ads to play muted if audible autoplay is blocked by browser
    • Mobile – Midroll ads enabled, unless it’s iOS before version 13
    • Mobile – Playlist ads enabled, with exception of YouTube videos
    • Placement setting for each ad (pre/post-roll or both)

    7.4.10.727 – 2020/01/21

    • Better fix for fullscreen button when using AdBlock

    7.4.9.727 – 2020/01/14

    • Fix for fullscreen button when using AdBlock

    7.4.8.727 – 2019/11/11

    • Fix for Android 9

    7.4.2.727 – 2019/09/03

    • Fix for skippable ads on iOS 12, these were skipped for no good reason

    7.4.0.727 – 2019/08/22

    • New setting – AMP support

    7.3.4.727 – 2019/01/04

    • Fix for VAST ads not appearing before YouTube videos since recent FV Player Pro update

    7.2.8.727 – 2018/10/25

    • Fixing bad remaining ad time information showing up for some of the VPAID ads

    7.2.2.727 – 2018/10/02

    • Preparation for FV Player Database
    • Fix for volume button status mismatch
    • Fix for ad resuming when midroll fails to load

    7.1.15.727 – 2018/09/13

    • FV Player 7 version
    • iOS reliability fixes

    6.6.7 – 2018/08/27

    • Autoplay bugfix (rare cases where post shortcodes are processed twice)
    • Video ad stalling bugfix (rare case on some websites)

    6.6.6 – 2018/07/16

    • Fix when using multiple players on the same page with FV Player 7 Beta and clicking the player again

    6.6.5 – 2018/07/09

    • FV Player 6.6.5 bugfixes

    6.6.2.1 – 2018/06/01

    • Fix for older Chrome versions on Android

    6.6.2 – 2018/06/01

    • Fix for non-linear ad closing
    • Volume button fix for FV Player 7 Beta

    6.6.1 – 2018/05/24

    • Fix for volume button when using Silent ad start

    6.6 – 2018/05/17

    • Autoplay – disabled in Chrome 66 for now as it won’t permit video autoplay unless the user has already played some video on your website
    • New styling of buttons
    • Showing remaining time for non-skippable ads
    • Showing mute button
    • Shortcode editor options now appear in new tab

    0.7.10 – 2018/04/06

    • FV Player 7 Beta fixes
    • Optimizing JavaScript size
    • Bugfix – support for FV Player Pro Scroll Autoplay

    0.7.9 – 2017/12/14

    • Bugfix for iPhone iOS 10 compatibility – disabling skippable ads enabled in 0.7.6 for now
    • Bugfix for ad pausing

    0.7.8 – 2017/11/30

    • Bugfix for playlists – the ad now plays before each playlist item, on mobile only before the first item being played for now

    0.7.7 – 2017/11/24

    • Fix for disabling autoplay for a single video

    0.7.6 – 2017/11/15

    • Bugfix for incompatibility with Ajax Search Pro

    0.7.5 – 2017/11/03

    • Bugfix for iPhone iOS 10-11 compatibility

    0.7.4 – 2017/10/24

    • iPhone iOS 10-11 – greatly improving ad fill rate by allowing skippable ads to play

    0.7.3 – 2017/10/11

    • Fullscreen mode fix
    • Shortcode editor – added fields for VAST midroll placement and VAST URL, check the Options tab

    0.7.2 – 2017/09/26

    • Vimeo – Fix for MPEG-DASH streams provided by FV Player Pro

    0.7.1 – 2017/09/26

    • Fix for midroll ads not working

    0.7 – 2017/09/05

    • Mobile – allowing VAST ads before YouTube videos
    • Bugfix – loading indicator was not showing for slow videos after ad finished playing affecting HTML5 incompatible browsers

    0.6.27 – 2017/04/24

    • Mobile – stopping VAST ads before YouTube videos on Android – at least for now as it doesn’t work reliably

    0.6.26 – 2017/04/07

    • Making sure your custom FV Player logo doesn’t appear above the video ad
    • Bugfix – VPAID ad loading broken by 0.6.25

    0.6.25 – 2017/03/30

    • Autoplay – fix for slow connections
    • Making sure VAST buttons are not in HTML if there is no VAST ad configured

    0.6.24 – 2017/02/21

    • URL tags – adding support for [description_url], [referrer_url], [post_category]

    0.6.23 – 2017/02/20

    • Bugfix for mobile devices – Chrome 56 bugfix (unfortunately fallback ads and midroll ads are not working right now)
    • Bugfix for mobile devices – increasing the ad fill rate on slow networks
    • Bugfix for mobile devices – iPad video controls were visible for ads

    0.6.22 – 2017/01/31

    • Bugfix for mobile devices – ads not showing since the last version

    0.6.21 – 2017/01/17

    • Setting maximum number of VAST wrappers from 4 to 5
    • Lightbox – Bugfixes when lightbox closed before the ad ends
    • Mobile – fix for ad skip on midroll

    0.6.20 – 2016/11/15

    • iPad – getting rid of unnecessary “Visit Advertiser” button
    • iPad – fix for skip on midroll ads
    • Mobile – improving styling of Skip and Resume buttons

    0.6.19 – 2016/11/09

    • Fix for companion ads not appearing

    0.6.18 – 2016/11/02

    • Fix for VPAID ad size on Firefox with decimal pixel ratio
    • Fixing to only load when global ads are defined or the current player has ads

    0.6.17 – 2016/10/19

    • Fix for loading on Microsoft Edge

    0.6.16 – 2016/10/07

    • Silent ad start – support for Flash engine added

    0.6.15 – 2016/10/05

    • Silent ad start – not working for some ad units, fixing

    0.6.14 – 2016/09/12

    • Silent ad start – Added an option for the VAST ad to start playing muted and be un-muted by the user.
    • Mobile – fix for ad buttons

    0.6.13 – 2016/08/02

    • Important bugfix – tracking not fired for ad completion (videoplaytime100)

    0.6.12 – 2016/07/18

    • iPad – fixes for Vimeo videos with VAST ads

    0.6.11 – 2016/07/07

    • Improvement for VPAID JS ads

    0.6.10 – 2016/07/06

    • VPAID fix for resuming of the video after failed ad load when using YT videos

    0.6.9 – 2016/07/04

    • Companion Ads – added option to enable companion ad display on top of the video

    0.6.8 – 2016/06/02

    • Mobile – stopping ad init if there is no video tag for iPad/iPhone
    • Mobile – stopping ad init for YT videos for now

    0.6.7 – 2016/05/10

    • Google Analytics – simplifying the tracking

    0.6.6 – 2016/04/05

    • added [user_agent] URL tag

    0.6.5 – 2016/03/16

    • console debug log – improved “FV VAST load” to show the actual dynamic URL parameters in use – such as [timestamp], [random_number], [player_width] and [player_height]

    0.6.4 – 2016/03/14

    • Fix for autoplay when using YT videos

    0.6.3 – 2016/03/11

    • Google Analytics support added for VPAID as well

    0.6.2 – 2016/03/09

    • Fix for JS warnings

    0.6.1 – 2016/03/09

    • More AdBlocker detection fixes.

    0.6 – 2016/03/09

    • Changed the AdBlocker timeout to 10 seconds and added filter fv_player_vast_adblocker_timeout for expert users to change it

    0.5.2 – 2016/03/08

    • Google Analytics support added

    0.5.1 – 2016/02/23

    • Fix for certain video types

    0.5 – 2016/02/23

    • Ad loading reworked for iPad
    • Fixes for non-linear ads

    0.4.8 – 2015/12/18

    • Fixing various mobile bugs, mainly Android

    0.4.7 – 2015/12/16

    • Fix for Firefox Private Browsing causing failure in video playback

    0.4.6 – 2015/12/09

    • Fix for Adblock Plus and other ad blockers – was breaking mobile ad serving in some cases

    0.4.5 – 2015/11/25

    • Fix for Adblock Plus and other ad blockers – was breaking waterfall ad loading

    0.4.4 – 2015/11/12

    • Fix for Adblock Plus and other ad blockers – won’t break the vidoe playback when using VAST HTML5 engine.

    0.4.3 – 2015/11/10

    • Version bump

    0.4.2 – 2015/11/04

    • Compatibility fix when debug enabled

    0.4.1 – 2015/09/04

    • Bugfix – bad width and height passed to VAST URLs

    0.4 – 2015/08/18

    • Fix for FV Flowplayer 6
    • Fix for delayed updates

    0.3.9.2 – 2015/07/17

    • Mobile with inline playback capability missing resume button for ads – added!

    0.3.9.1 – 2015/07/16

    • Big mobile compatibility fix!

    0.3.9 – 2015/07/09

    • Flowplayer 6 version! Make sure you upgrade to FV WordPress Flowplayer 6.

    0.3.4 – 2015/06/12

    • Fix for HTML5 engine loading

    0.3.3 – 2015/06/01

    • Fix for VPAID waterfall loading – it was causing Flash crashing on Google Chrome
    • Mobile support – beta, check settings to enable!

    0.3.2 – 2015/03/06

    • VPAID events are now triggered on the player container .flowplayer (fv_vpaid_requested,fv_vpaid_loaderror,fv_vpaid_loaded,fv_vpaid_contentpaused,fv_vpaid_completed)

    0.3.1 – 2015/02/24

    • Bugfix for videos with no VAST URL configured (no global VAST ads entered)
    • Fix for some PHP warnings

    0.3 – 2015/02/23

    • More changes, please test your ads carefully!
    • More fixes for playlists including fallback ad loading
    • Ad container now stays hidden until the ad is intialized – helps the midroll ads

    0.2.15 – 2015/02/20

    • Fix for playlists

    0.2.14 – 2015/02/10

    • Fix for autoplay

    0.2.13 – 2015/01/19

    • Fix for Flash ads compatibility for IE < 11
    • Removing use of script tags to load the ad units
    • Some stray PHP warnings taken care of

    0.2.10 – 2014/12/10

    • Performance fixes

    0.2.9 – 2014/12/01

    • Feature – support for non-linear VAST ads added
    • Fix – adjutment for max number of ad loads in waterfall
    • Bugfix – fixing changelog function
    • Bugfix – bugfix for plugin folder name change

    0.2.8 – 2014/10/28

    • Feature – added settings for multiple VAST ads (waterfall/fallback)
    • Bugfix – fix for video autoplay – the ads now autoplay properly
    • Bugfix – broken VAST URL parsing for global ads

    0.2.7 – 2014/10/02

    • Feature – added support for random-number kind of URL tags (SpotXchange ads)

    0.2.6 – 2014/09/29

    • Bugfix – [timestamp] and other variables not being filled in

    0.2.5 – 2014/09/18

    • Feature – midroll feature added!
    • Feature – add vast to specify vast tag for any shortcode, add vast_engine to specify html5 or vpaid engine

    0.2.4 – 2014/09/17

    • Feature – shortcode now supports the midroll attribute, where you can specify seconds at which the ad should show up

    0.2.3 – 2014/08/05

    • Feature – Flash VPAID is now responsive

    0.2.2 – 2014/08/04

    • Feature – VPAID support added (Flash)

    0.2.1 – 2014/07/03

    • Feature – added license checking

    0.2 – 2014/06/20

    • Feature – switched to Google IMA SDK!

    0.1.0.12 – 2014/04/17

    • Fix – compatibility with FV Player Pro

    0.1.0.10 – 2014/03/06

    • Fix – VAST requested from the user’s computer

    0.1.0.9 – 2014/02/05

    • Fix – added [timestamp] parameter parsing
    • Fix – check for ad video format playback capability
    • Bugfix – for empty video ClickTracking

    0.1.0.8 – 2014/01/10

    • Bugfix – disabled in IE due to lack of support for cross domain requests

    0.1.0.7 – 2013/12/19

    • Bugfix – JetPack sharing buttons compatibility issue – caused by calling get_the_excerpt() to get video description

    0.1.0.6 – 2013/11/11

    • Fix – HTML ads hidden during video ad playback
    • Bugfix – Broken VAST XML won’t break the playback anymore

    0.1.0.5 – 2013/11/11

    • First beta to limited audience

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