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Using the VAST Player pro to embed YT and Cloudflare videos on my site and a client site. Ads + all player controls show on my site correctly
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When using embed for the client site, the ad audio only plays (no video) and the player controls do not display.
Player also seems to freeze on playback after the ad fires.
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Hello Kelly,
Please let us know which exact video page seems to run into these issues.
I picked a random video on your website and tried to use the Embed iframe code. It worked without these issues. However the video was not using Cloudflare. So I would like to check with the exactly same video where you run into the difficulties.
Thanks,
Martin
Go to:
https://www.mlispro.com/2023-24-season-streams
Which is our client site. Go to the first video, which is You Tube. It is using the Foliovision embed code. (I mentioned in my first message there are issues with both YT and CF)As I mentioned above, the video works correctly on our site, When we try to embed them on the client site the ads play, but the video controls are missing.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Hello Kelly,
Thank you for the link. The root cause of the issue seems to be the “Controlbar Always Visible” setting of FV Player. Please try disabling this setting in wp-admin -> FV Player -> Settings -> Sitewide FV Player Defaults and then the issue should be avoided.
The issue with YouTube video not playing after the ad can be fixed by adding
allow="autoplay"to the iframe code. So what you have on the client website:<iframe src="{your FV Player embed link}" allowfullscreen width="800" height="500" frameborder="0" style="max-width:100%" title="MLIS 2024 Playoffs presented by Go Live Sports Cast"></iframe>Changes to:
<iframe src="{your FV Player embed link}" allowfullscreen allow="autoplay" width="800" height="500" frameborder="0" style="max-width:100%" title="MLIS 2024 Playoffs presented by Go Live Sports Cast"></iframe>However I did not run into the issue with the video ad picture not showing. Perhaps adding the
allow="autoplay"part for my web browser avoided that issue.
You can also upgrade to FV Player 8. We put in a fix for the control bar visibility settings so that it’s not used in iframes automatically. It also adds
allow="autoplay"to the iframe embed codes.However the old iframe HTML which you put on your client websites will still have to be adjusted as mentioned.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi there
Thanks for the help, it did work with the addition of the extra code. I also upgraded to the version 8 player as suggested, but now the embed link does not show up, no matter which position I toggle in the player settings for the individual video.
Hello Kelly,
FV Player 8 should be giving you a notice as you appear to be using FV Player Pro of version 7. You should be getting:
FV Player 8 cannot run together with FV Player Pro 7. Please remove FV Player Pro 7 and then install using wp-admin -> FV Player -> Settings -> Install Pro extension.
Once you switch to FV Player Pro make sure to configure the desired YouTube appearance in wp-admin -> FV Player -> Settings -> Hosting -> YouTube -> YouTube UI. If you pick “None”, the embed link will show. We need to figure out a better placement of these top of the video controls for other modes.
Thanks,
Martin
Thanks for the help. Follow up question.
How can I get an embed code for a livestream, so that my VAST ads play on the live event?
Clarification: embed code for client site, not mine.
Hello Kelly,
FV Player VAST will work with a live stream.
What you need is to pick your live stream provider. Any live HLS stream will work, just make sure you mark is as a live stream if it’s not properly detected: https://foliovision.com/player/troubleshooting/hls#live
We also support live streams provided by a number of video streaming services: https://foliovision.com/player/live-streaming
Please let us know if you have the live streaming service already and it appears there’s no way of making it work with FV Player.
Thanks,
Martin
