How to Add Markup Content to the Video Sitemap?

Hello Jovan,

FV Player uses video sitemaps like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://cdn.foliovision.com/site/wp-content/plugins/fv-player/css/sitemap-video.xsl?ver=8.0.16"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1">
  <url>
    <loc>https://foliovision.com/2025/01/fv-player-tv</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:thumbnail_loc>https://cdn.foliovision.com/images/edd/2017/11/fv-player-pro-100x100.png</video:thumbnail_loc>
      <video:title>Playlist Improvement: Random Video Playback</video:title>
      <video:description>A random video from the playlist will autoplay at a random playback position when you open the page with the playlist.</video:description>
      <video:category>FV Player</video:category>
      <video:publication_date>2025-01-10T11:56:58+01:00</video:publication_date>
      <video:player_loc>https://foliovision.com/2025/01/fv-player-tv/fvp-230</video:player_loc>
    </video:video>
  </url>
</urlset>
<!-- XML Sitemap generated by FV Player -->

<video:player_loc> is equivalent of VideoObject.embedUrl in structured data.

Are you sure you get that error for the sitemap and not the Schema.org markup on the page?

I see that the file URL would be better for contentUrl. Please check https://search.google.com/search-console/ -> Enhancements -> Videos to see what errors do you get for the Schema.org markup. Using page URL for contentUrl does not seem to cause issues.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Jovan,

Do you see a lot of these errors in https://search.google.com/search-console/ -> Enhancements -> Videos?

Could you please send a link to the video where it does not show?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Jovan,

Are your MP4 videos playable anywhere?

If they are hosted on AWS or Bunny CDN or anything similar and they use URL tokens to restrict playback then they cannot be used as the contentUrl.

Perhaps we could use contentUrl when we see it’s a bare MP4 file without the URL token.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Jovan,

Could you please reinstall FV Player from this link? https://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-player-8.zip

Then the MP4 video links will be used for Schema.org contentURL.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Jovan,

Thank you, we will make the improvement part of the next FV Player 8 release as well.

We will be looking at our website in https://search.google.com/search-console/ -> Enhancements -> Videos to see if this helps with video indexing.

Thanks,
Martin