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
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
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 Settings -> FV Player -> 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 – 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
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 Settings -> FV Player -> 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
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!
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