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Hello,
fv player 7.4.40.727 changes video size when start playing an external hls video from a remote site. HTML layout is ignoring. No such effect for local and amazon-hosted videos.
Thanks
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I have to clarify, this is probably due to the 7.4.39.727.beta PRO version in Beta mode. When I switch to Release mode, this effect disappears.
Hello Edward,
I’m not aware of any modification which could be causing that. Do you run into the same issue with FV Player Pro 7.4.40.727 (Release and Beta)?
Could you please post a link to the page where we can see the issue?
Thanks,
Martin
Hello Martin,
7.4.40.727.beta has the same issue in both Beta and Release modes.
I’m on test site that is not available from public at the moment.
I use the following link to test playing external video:
https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/sintel/hls/playlist.m3u8
Video size is not defined in video settings
Update: 7.4.38.727 has no this issue in both modes.
I am using the latest version of firefox if it matters
Hello Edward,
are you using the DRM Text feature on that video?
Does the issue occur in Chrome?
Are you using any standard theme which I can download or can you send the theme in ZIP file?
Thanks!
Martin
Hello Martin,
I have opened access to the test site (please, remove link when publishing) with 7.4.40.727.beta
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It’s the second video from the bottom.
It looks like as a firefox issue. Chrome is ok.
No DRM Text.
I use Dream theme by vsfish. Unfortunately, it was removed from wp catalog. The latest version that could be found is dream.1.0.24.zip
Hello Edward,
the DRM text is actually enabled for that video, perhaps you are enabling it globally.
That’s why the issue is appearing.
You can fix it by setting the player dimensions to match the video aspect ratio – the video is 640 x 273 pixels, but the player is set to 640 x 360 pixels.
I think in this case we could set the player to adapt to the video size automatically to make sure the video always appears properly.
Thanks!
Martin
Hello Martin,
Yes, DRM is enabled globally to protect dozens of my private videos.
But I also have dozens of embedded YouTube videos that have this issue.
My theme’s layout width is only 600px.Without proper automatic video resizing It all looks like a deadlock for me (
Will this issue be fixed in the next release?
Thanks
Hello Edward,
with the automatic resizing it’s not so simple as the YouTube API doesn’t expose the video aspect ratio nor dimensions. So it seems like we would have to start recording each video dimensions.
For now the safest route is to disable DRM text for these videos or set the proper video dimensions.
If you want to try the automatic resizing, then you can take the fv_flowplayer_conf code snippet from https://foliovision.com/player/advanced/api-programming
Thanks,
Martin
Hello Edward,
I think I created a fix for this issue – If you have a moment, could you please reinstall FV Player from this link: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/master.zip ?
To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player plugin you are using. WordPress will warn you that you might loose settings and data, but it’s not the case with our plugin, no settings now videos will be lost. Or you can just replace the plugin files via FTP.
Then the issue should be fixed.
Thanks,
Martin
Hello Edward,
we were forced to change the approach here a bit. FV Player and FV Player Pro are both updated to version 7.4.42.727 and they will fix the issue.
Thanks,
Martin
Hello Martin,
Sorry for the late response.
I have upgraded both players to 7.4.42.727 and tested the video. The issue seems to have been resolved. Video scaling now works correctly.Thank you very much for your support.
Edward
