Copy Links not working

Hello Johnwt,

it seems like the video on that site was replaced from https://vimeo.com/233692299 to https://vimeo.com/88568199

That’s why that link won’t work. We could fix this by referencing the player position in the post content (1st, 2nd, 3rd) but that’s not very reliable as well, as you might remove or add some player.

Even if we have a database of all videos it would be tricky for the link to keep working if the video is replaced.

I think we could improve it so that if the video from the link is not found, it will play the video which is there (at least). That would give users at least some video playing and if it would be the only video on page, chances are it would be the correct one.

We are discussing this in our team, but please let us know what you think.

Thanks,
Martin

Hi John,

If videos are changed, the links to them would have to be changed. Adding a system for trying to track videos on a page would result in fairly fragile and high maintenance code. I.e. I don’t see it as a win for our customers or us either.

When creating internal links to teaching videos, for more flexibility it’s better to link to it as either the page or even to an anchor link. That way you can change the video as often as you like with

Of course an anchor link won’t work with a link to a specific time in the video (which if the video’s been changed would probably be wrong anyway).

We’ll definitely investigate the strange broken link.

Cordial regards,

Alec

PS. I can’t see the real estate video there (I don’t have access readily available). Could you send me a link to that video?

Hello John,

we figured this out, the new version might be out tomorrow. It will require upgrade of both FV Player and FV Player Pro.

Thanks,
Martin