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FV WordPress Flowplayer v1.0

1.0.6

  • widgets problems with splash image and controlbar fixed
  • cyan background color fixed

1.0.5

  • compatibility fixes
  • HTTPS support added

1.0.4

  • compatibility fixes
  • configuration file replaced by WP options

1.0.3

  • white spaces causing errors on some servers fixed

1.0.2

  • redirect feature added (Thanks for donation from Klaus Eickelpasch)
  • more bug fix for wp shortcodes api to be compatible with commas in shortcodes
  • fixed the absolute paths

1.0.1

  • bug fix for wp shortcodes api to be compatible with commas in shortcodes 1.0 * autoplay option for single videos
  • show/hide control bar
  • show/hide fullscreen option
  • connected with wp media library, video and image upload is supported now (Thanks for donation from Kermit Woodhall)

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  1. I just updated to FV WordPress Flowplayer 1.0 and now only 1 of my videos work. I’m getting a “Clip Error Stream not found” message. Plus on the 1 video that does work there are now white bars at the top of the video.

    Peter

  2. Hey guys, just updated to new version 1.0 through my dashboard and it bombed the entire site. I had no page except the background. Everything gone. Blank. Nada.

    Reinstalled previous version – no problems.

    PS – I am running WP 3.0

  3. Hi Guys,

    There seems to be some issues with the latest Flowplayer we released yesterday on WordPress 3.0.

    This release does include the much requested video uploader integration but it’s better not to upgrade now if you are running WordPress 3.0.

    We will run down the issues ASAP but as we are into the long weekend now a corrected version may not be available until Tuesday or Wednesday.

    Thanks!

  4. It looks like the comma at the end of the src tag is included with the name of the source file. You can work around this by adding a space before the comma:

    [flowplayer src=mpp.mov , width=320, height=240]

  5. The box around the video is too large because there is an error in the html. There is a comma added between the width and “px”.

    For example, the contents of the “a” tag is:

    id=”wpfp_5913579757afcd08963d211cf2f” style=”width:640,px; height:360px;” class=”flowplayer_container”

  6. Hi everybody,

    we did a quick bug release to fix the problem with clip stream error, and the white stripes appearing around the videos. Thanks for all your comments, and big thanks to Ralph for helping us to identify the problem – wp shortcodes api had problems with parsing the commas in the shortcodes.

    Zdenka

  7. Wanted to show off to your fans how easy it was to use the function to make this player dynamic. Here each game has it’s video pulled dynamically using WP meta data(custom fields) created from my import. homecomputergames.com/game-downloads/ EZ as pie.

    flowplayer(‘[flowplayer src='.$game_video.' splash='.$game_image.']‘);

    With over 1500 games to set up You saved me a lot of work! Look for some love in your PayPal. Thanks! Ken

  8. Thanks for the tip, Ken!

    Good use of the FV Flowplayer. We code for simplicity, reliability and flexibility.

    And thank you for the donation.

  9. After upgrading to WordPress 3 I had to switch from “word-press-flow-player” to your “fv-wordpress-flowplayer” plugin for my blog: embracelifephoto.com/blog2

    Today I saw that an upgrade was available for your plugin and I ran it. Unfortunately, the videos no longer responded to clicking the play button, so I had to roll back to the pre-update version.

    No biggie, but just a heads-up. I love to stay current, though, and would be curious if you could figure out why that happened. I use several other plugins including:

    • AJAXed WordPress
    • Akismet
    • FD Feedburner Plugin
    • Google XML Sitemaps
    • HeadSpace2
    • WPBook

    Maybe one of them conflicts?

  12. It does seem that the new version of FV WPFP has a javascript error that is stopping the usage. At least that is the error I am getting. Is there somewhere to get the older version back? error(unterminated string constant)

  13. Older versions of FV Flowplayer can be downloaded here: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/download/

    I believe version 0.9.18 works (without built-in uploader) with WordPress 3.0.

    WordPress 3 compatibility is coming to the latest version as well. It’s just that we have added a lot of features recently (video upload, automated redirects) which require additional troubleshooting on WordPress 3.0.

    Thank you to Klaus and Kermit for the support for the new features!

    If you don’t need the new features, the older versions work well on WordPress 3.

  14. There is a new release of FV WordPress Flowplayer available. We also checked the compatibility with WP3.0 We fixed the issues from the last release, the not responding play button, borders around videos and the streaming errors.

    Please make sure that the wpfp.conf file has the writing permissions even after the upgrade.

    Today we also experienced some problems when we were upgrading the plugin through Wordress – not all files were downloaded correctly. Please try to download the zip file directly from wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/ and uploading it through ftp in case the plugin does not work after upgrade.

    Zdenka

  15. Still using 2.9.2 but upgraded to latest Fv version. No working problems with player but a strange behavior is that all comma’s in content of all articles are stripped out.

    You may want to have a look at it.

  16. The recent update of Flowplayer conflicts with the Store Locator plugin and renders Store Locator unable to display its map. The just previous version of Flowplayer ran fine under WP 3.0 and didn’t lock up the Store Locator plugin.

    Version 0.9.18 is the one that works with 3.0 and doesn’t conflict with Store Locator. Also with FlowPlayer 1.03 and 1.02 all the commas disappeared from the content of pages and posts on the website. After going back to 0.9.18, things are back to normal.

  17. We should have a fix for the comma stripping issue later today.

    Thank you to those who submitted bug reports!

  18. Hello everybody,

    we just released another version (1.0.4) which has fixed the problem with comas – we tried to make this plugin compatible with the older shortcodes. If you still have any weird problem after update, you can just turn the “Convert old shortcodes with commas” option off. It’s in the plugin options.

    Thanks, Martin

  19. Interested in using Flowplayer for wordpress site, but also trying to get the media into a rss feed.

    Has anyone successfully accomplished this?

    Tried Blurry Press to create a custom feed, but it is adding it’s own player so every post has 2 players.

    Is there special code to make this happen?

    Thanks in advance

  20. Hi, the commas are back! even with “Convert old shortcodes with commas” ON. Thank you for fixing this issue. Regards, CZ

  21. I’m using the FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin on an https site and we found a bug in the way permalinks are handled. Could you please verify that our fix is proper and possibly include it in your next build?

    We’ve tested in on our servers and it appears to work quite well.

    in fv-wordpress-flowplayer/models/flowplayer-frontend.php, we changed the following lines to include the check for the https prefix along with http:

    if((strpos($media,’http://’) === false) && (strpos($media,’https://’) === false)) {

    and

    if ((strpos($args[‘splash’],’http://’) === false) && (strpos($args[‘splash’],’https://’) === false))

    Hope this helps, and hope in can be included (so I don’t have to edit it after updates). Many thanks for a great plugin.

    Cheers, Deuce

  22. Hi Deuce,

    Thanks for the code snippet. We’ll include https support going forward if we don’t find any issues with your code (it looks fine).

    Hi Everyone,

    The latest version does not have the comments issue.

  23. Hi Everyone,

    The commas issue is solved but there appear to be some issues remaining with splash screen. If you are having issues with splash screens, we recommend running without splash screens for a week or so while we investigate and fix the issue. One of our team (the person working on splash screens) is away this week so it will be about a week before we will have the fix ready.

    Thanks for your bug reports!

  24. Possible bug? I’ve installed the plugin and love the functionality of it. But when I go to edit a page and click on the “Add Media” icon, I can upload files but it will not add a link with the “insert into post” button. Thanks, Gabe

  25. hi, first of all: thank you for this excellent plugin!

    do you think there might be a html5-version of your plugin in forthcoming versions?

  26. Hi Kilian,

    We are definitely working on an html 5 version soon.

    We’ve recently added video uploading, we’re still working on WordPress 3 compatibility and stomping out some splash screen bugs. Html 5 is next on the horizon.

  27. Hi,

    I need to play short videos (3sec) in a loop. I did not find any setting for a loop. Maybe I’m blind ….or does the plugin not support loops?

    Thanks in advance for your answer..

    Best regards

    Karl-Heinz

  28. Hi Karl,

    playing in the loop is currently not supported by our plugin. At the moment we also do not consider adding it. If somebody adds it cleverly, we might use it in the future. Thanks for you comment, Zdenka

  29. Hi there

    Nice work but… Where do I change the default directory ? Pretty useless as is unfortunately … Could just point me to the line(s) in the php … TIA This REALLY ought to be a user changeable function :-)

  30. Hi There, great plugin, amazing in fact, I’m using the wordpress version which makes my life a lot easier. One quick question though. Is there a way of rewinding to the splash screen at the end of the video by using some code when I embed the video in a post? Many kind regards, and thanks for the hard work, Dom

  31. Hi Michael,

    the default directory is set in the models/flowplayer.php in the flowplayer_head function. It you use videos in widgets you might need to edit the function flowplayer_content in controller/frontend.php as well. Thanks for your comment. Zdenka

  32. Hello,

    first of all thank you for this great plug-in, now i wanted to know if it possible to complete remove the control bar, I’m not talking about hiding the controls [flowplayer src='example.flv' controlbar='hide']

    I want to fully remove the control bar because i don’t want visitors to click it…..

    any idea how can i do it

    thanks diane.

  33. Hi, Thank you for your plugin. I wonder if it’s possible to translate (in french) the text “Play again” at the end of video’s playing. But i don’t find the file to translate ?

    Thanks in advance

  34. Hello Diane,

    thanks for your comment, the shortcode controlbar=’hide’ should work exactly as you wish to – not show the controlbar at all. This feature might not work properly in the widgets, but this will be fixed in the next release.

    Zdenka

  35. Hi Ag,

    currently there is only English version of FV Flowplayer available, and there’s no support for other languages. That’s also the reason why you can’t find the language files. There seems to be no language support for Flowplayer itself, but if somebody implements this cleverly will be happy to add this feature to our plugin as well. Thanks for your comment, Zdenka

  36. Someone up there is looking out for me! I was working on a client’s template and NONE of the other 7 or so vid plugins would actually work in the “featured content” widgeted area (not side bar.) Your plugin was literally the answer to my prayer.

    Thanks so much for all your time and effort!

  37. I am using the plugin for wordpress along with a woothemes video theme. It asks me for embed code. When I place the [flowplayer…. code it just displays the code on the page. If I just put that code in the HTML tab, it does the same. Any ideas?

  40. Hi Ron,

    That’s a good suggestion. We haven’t added that functionality yet as our focus with FV Flowplayer is on simple and easy to use. We may do so in the future.

    But remember, these videos are hosted on your main server so encouraging sharing will take a lot of bandwidth and could affect your server’s performance (to the point of overloading it, depending on embeds/your server hardware).

  41. Hi Alec,

    I actually host all my videos on Amazon S3, and thus far (I’ve been using them for about a year now) I’ve never had any overload problems.

    I totally agree that simpler is definitely better. But, the ability to embeb videos would definitely increase the viral aspect of ones videos.

    Thanks for your quick response, by the way.

    Ron

  42. Hi Ron,

    On Amazon you wouldn’t run into that issue.

    The Amazon ECD addition is not the core of FV Flowplayer. We are expecting it to be used more for self-hosted videos.

    If you would like to sponsor this addition to FV Flowplayer (embed code), let me know.

  43. I love the ease with which I can play videos with your plugin… thanks for making this available.

    I notice that when I insert the player on my page, there is a black border that frames the video. see frippvirtual.com/

    Is there a way to remove that border?

    thx… dave

  44. Hi Dave,

    there is no user setting for removing that frame, but you an edit flowplayer css file in order to remove it. The css file is located in your plugins folder: fv-wordpress-flowplayer/css/flowplayer.css The line you need to edit is 6th line of the file, in the flowplayer_container class, change border: solid 1px black; for example to border: solid 0px black;

    Thanks for your comment, Zdenka

  45. Very easy to use, but seems to conflict with WordPress’ Media Library. When I have the plugin enabled and try to insert media using the little sun icon I am unable to select a file and “insert into post”. I can push the button but nothing happens. Anyone else having this problem or have any advice? Thanks, Gabe

  46. Hi Gabe,

    thanks for reporting this conflict, we’ll look at it and we’ll let you know.

    Zdenka

  48. Hello, I’m using flowplayer to showcase short flash videos, and it’s by far the easiest video tool I’ve used.

    I’m wondering if I can display the video without having it appear in a post? How do I get it to appear in a sidebar, or footer, for example, without having a loop?

    Thanks … Zachary

  49. Works great- finally a player which is very easy to use.

    Thank you very much!

    PS If you put a PayPal Donate button on your site I’ll donate.

    Peter

  50. Hi Marcel,

    Following code to include the shortcode into a sidebar might help also to you: echo apply_filters(‘the_content’, ‘[flowplayer src=yourvideo.mp4 width=240 height=320]‘);

    Fill the Flowplayer shortcode part according to your needs. The apply filter needs to be called because the flowplayer shortcodes are not parsed outside posts automatically. Also, please do not forget to add the echo at the beginning.

    Hope this helps, Zdenka

  51. Hi Zachary,

    You need to use following code to include the shortcode into a sidebar: echo apply_filters(‘the_content’, ‘[flowplayer src=yourvideo.mp4 width=240 height=320]‘);

    Fill the Flowplayer shortcode part according to your needs. The apply filter needs to be called because the flowplayer shortcodes are not parsed outside posts automatically. Also, please do not forget to add the echo at the beginning.

    Hope this helps, Zdenka

  54. Hi,

    Thanks for this very great pluggin. My configuration:

    • WordPress Mu 2.9.2
    • FV WordPress Flowplayer v1.0.6

    1- I’m using the default WordPress (WPMU 2.9.2) tinyMCE editor and when I click on the “FV WordPress Flowplayer” icon, the dialog window is displayed with this error message:

    analyze(realpath($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] .$matches[1])); if (isset($ThisFileInfo[‘error’])) $file_error = “Could not read video details, please fill the width and height manually.”; //getid3_lib::CopyTagsToComments($ThisFileInfo); $file_time = $ThisFileInfo[‘playtime_string’]; // playtime in minutes:seconds, formatted string $file_width = $ThisFileInfo[‘video’][‘resolution_x’]; $file_height = $ThisFileInfo[‘video’][‘resolution_y’]; $file_size = $ThisFileInfo[‘filesize’]; $file_size = round($file_size/(1024*1024),2); } ?>

    2- I’m using WorpdPress Mu 2.9.2 and I put my videos files in ‘/mysite/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/videos/’ directory.

    If I use any one of the following shortcodes, in a post, all works fine:

    [flowplayer src='http://myserver.com/mysite/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/videos/myvideo.flv' width=184 height=138] or [flowplayer src='https://cdn.foliovision.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/videos/myvideo.flv' width=184 height=138]

    But if I use the sames shortcodes in the default WordPress Text widgets I always get this error:

    200, Stream not found, [object ClipError], clip: [Clip] ‘../mysite/videos/myvideo.flv’

    Note: With “FV WordPress Flowplayer” v0.9.18 I haven’t these errors.

    Thanks for your help Best Regards

  55. I’ve installed the plugin on both a WordPress 2.8.4 and 3.0.1. The 2.8.4 install works great but I can’t get the 3.0.1 to work. Is Flowplayer working with 3.0.1? All I get is a black box. I’ve tried to use it with [flowplayer src=video1.flv] I’ve also tried a direct path: theworkathomeacademy.com/videos/video1.flv I also tried uploading and using .avi, .mp4, .swf.

    Nothing works. Please help me. Downgrading WordPress is my last option. Thank you.

  56. Hi Kegan,

    yes, we tested Flowplayer also under WP 3.0.1 so the problem you’re experiencing is probably not connected to the upgrade itself only. Please check if you have proper footer in the theme you’re using, this is the most common reason for this kind of problem. Check our FAQ for more details about this issue.

    Zdenka

  57. Using FV WordPress Flowplayer v1.0.6, AutoPlay is set to “False” for various videos on my site, but I would like for one particular video to start automatically when visitors arrive to that page. Is there a way to set the autoplay to “true” for that one video?

  58. Hi Jeff,

    yes you can enable autoplay for just one video, just add autoplay=true into the shortcode.

    Zdenka

  59. Hi there, first thank you for this great plugin. Now if I could get some help from you it woud be heaven. Here is the case: I’m trying to add a playlist consisting of images in li but can’t find a way to deal with permalinks and wordpress openning the video in the full url provided instead of staying on the same page. Any hints would be welcome.

  60. Hi Gsoove,

    I don’t think I understand what do you mean, could you be more specific or maybe provide an example? Is your problem related directly to this plugin?

    Zdenka

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