Automated quality switching

Hello Viktor,

you can find everything about our quality switching here: https://foliovision.com/player/switch-video-quality

Currently the limitation is that the use has to start the video playback and only then the quality can be switched. This approach has following issues:

1) If the use is on mobile device, the initial video load might be very slow or might fail to play at all (video resolution or MP4 profile too high for mobile). We are preparing a fix for this – we will let our users mark which of the video qualities is suitable for mobile and serve that to mobile user agents by default.

2) If the connection is too slow, the initial video load might take a lot of time. Perhaps we could add in a detection of user bandwidth based on the current page load and then default to the mobile video if it’s slow.

If you are using our advanced YouTube embedding provided by the FV Player Pro extension – it uses all the mechanisms as original YouTube player – that means mobile users get the appropriate video stream and quality.

Thanks,
Martin

Hi guys. I want the quality switching to default to SD when the user clicks play. They can switch to HD if they want, but I want the video to start in SD. I’m inserting the video using short code, and I’m putting the SD video URL as the source. But it still begins playback at HD. Any thoughts? Thanks lot
Tim