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Hello!
First of all this video player has revolutionized my site, and my business and I am so very greatful for all the support I have received from foliovision.That said, I have a massive suggestion and an idea that would take this player to the next level. Its regarding the playlist options that are currently available.
What I would like to see and have is the ability to add a video to a playlist on the backend; and when a playlist gets embeded into a post all videos within that playlist would get called. In other words my example is youtube. With a youtube playlist you don’t have to go through each time and add videos to a playlist if someone clicks a playlist it brings up a select amount of videos that have already been saved into a playlist and then individuals can just continually watch. For me I have thousands of videos; and to add even 10 of those to a playlist is rough because each time I create a post I have to go search through my thousands of videos I want to add to a playlist but it would be easier if I could add videos to a playlist over time and then when I wanted I could call that playlist and the videos would appear. Does that make sense? Its rather hard to explain. Let me know what you all think or if this could be an option – you wouldn’t need even call it a playlist because of “conflicts” call it something else! Love what you guys do! Thanks for the awesome plugin and I look forward to hearing your response!
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Hello Nathan,
sorry about the delay, I was on a vacation and only the urgent support issues were dealt with during my absence.
Unfortunatelly I’m not entirely sure what do you mean. Do you mean you post new videos every day and you would like a master playlist somewhere were all the new videos would append automatically?
Or do you mean the embed function of the player? Like when you click to get the player embed code it only embeds that single video and not whole playlist?
Thanks,
Martin
Hello!
No worries, hope your vacation was swell!
Actually I mean sort of like a master playlist – where as lets say I have 20 videos and I add to those videos daily; if I wanted to display all of those videos in a playlist I would have to (currently) first of all, go find all of the video files and urls and then add them in each day.What I was looking for basically was functionality that would allow me to just keep adding to the video playlist each day, and display the playlist when I post the video player. So yes sort of a master playlist with a twist.
Instead of only one master playlist I could add each video to the playlist of my choosing, and when I post a video I can choose the playlist that I would like to add to the video plus vise versa.
I hope that makes sense. The best way I can explain it is sort of like youtube, where you can add a video to a playlist you created and as the video ends often it will go to the next video.
I think that would take your plugin to the next level for people like me because we have a fairly large site.
I have over 100,000 subs on youtube and I post sometimes 8 videos a day – now, I am trying to reel in those subs to my website and migrate off of youtube; but I need the video player to do the same thing as it did on youtube or similarly. As I said previously your plugin has revolutionized my website and I can’t thank you enough for making it affordable for everyone because it is really setting the stage for the next phase of our business!
I’m getting a bit dreamy here but it would be so cool if I could create a page and place an fv shortcode on it that would display all of the videos used by the plugin or the selected playlist.
The reason I said that is because our subscribers like to watch for hours and often times they will not click the skip button or pause button until the end of a playlist.
Let me know what you think, I would be so greatful if you can come up with something like this, the best example I can give you right now is the functionality that is already within our website (but its far to slow because it loads each post instead of just calling a video file): https://freedomfightertimes.com/environment/health-disease/you-gotta-see-this-the-war-on-holistic-alternative-medicine-is-in-full-swing-2/?list=46054
Let me know what you think I really do look forward to your response!
Thank you for your time, and again for your amazing plugin!!
Nate
Sorry!
I keep thinking about it! Maybe this is a better explanation.
-So first like each playlist could be a custom post type or custom taximony
-Then when I am writing the actual post, I could like check a box that would save the video url to that playlist (upon saving draft or publishing)
-And then I could choose to display the playlist or not via the shortcode insert-er.
Does that make sense?
Thanks!! Hope that helps!
Nate
Hello Nate,
I guess I see what you mean, it’s like an advanced related posts feature.
What I don’t like about it is that it leaves the user on the single post. What if instead the user would receive a message at the end of the video that he’s going to be moved to another video in 10 seconds with some visual notification, kind of like the feature on YouTube? I think it’s called Up Next.
That could be more powerful, as the user could read the whole article associate to the video while watching it and also receive any ads your site is using. It could be based on post tags and if you would watch some video tagged as “CERN discovery” it would then simply jump to another post with the same tag or something similar.
I’ll have to discuss this with our team of course.
Thanks,
Martin
Hello!
Thanks for getting back to me, yeah that would be pretty cool!
I see what your saying an I totally agree, it would be nice if people read more of the article that went with each individual post. However, I still think to even top that it would be down right fantastic if there was a way as well as the play next option to be able to have a page which displayed all the videos of a certain tag or category, and then each one could be played if clicked – but to add to it, it would be cool to add a read more link as well.So to sum it up, the play list would be the tag or category;
if applicable, the player could go to the next video through a “next button”
in addition to the next button it could also house a button that says read more as well.
upon clicking read more the the page reloads and goes to the article tied to the video.Let me know what you think, and I am sure that whatever you guys can do would be awesome for everybody!!
Thanks
Nate
Hi Nate and Martin,
This is a great idea but it has to be simple.
Hi Martin,
What stops us from just making tags automated playlists?
Hey Martin and Alec,
Alec – I totally agree!
You guys have done a wonderful job with the player and I know that whatever you come up with it’ll be awesome!!
Thanks!
Nate
