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Hello foliovision team.
I have a problem with my platform because google is enabling the download of my videos that are hosted on Vimeo with a Vimeo Plus account.I made the privacy settings for the videos to be able to run only on my site, but I still can download the videos, without downloading any external program or google chrome browser extension as print sent.
I would like to know how I can use the vimeo pro account, to use HLS and take this option to download the videos. I saw the tutorials, but since I do not have much experience with videos, I could not do with this tutorial>
https://foliovision.com/support/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/how-to/is-hls-really-supported
I could not use this option.I would like to know if you have a more detailed tutorial, for laypeople to make this hls configuration in a vimeo pro account. Well, I can not leave my videos ready to be downloaded as this will have a strong impact on my company.
I’m waiting for a comeback.
Thank you so much.
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Hi Sergio,
I’m not sure what do you mean by “google is enabling the download of my videos” – are you referring to the Chrome browser?
If you want to deploy an HLS stream from Vimeo, you can find it in the video’s settings – there should be an m3u8 link, that you can embed directly to the shortcode editor. Here are three guides, that are relevant for you (you might already read some of them, but I’ll post them just in case):
- Using HLS With FV Player
- How to Use Vimeo Plus/Pro
- How to setup encrypted HLS stream with Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Thanks,
Eduard
Google Chrome browser for a download option, at the bottom right of the player control.
My question is if I migrate my account to the vimeo pro and put this m3u8 at the end of the links, it will leave as hls
Hello Sergio,
if you use FV Player Pro then it will use the MP4 files from the Vimeo for playback. On iOS it will use the HLS streams (m3u8). On top of that we have an option to use the new MPEG-DASH format where possible.
The streams (HLS and MPEG-DASH) are much harder to download that MP4 files. One can’t just use the browser developer tools to do it.
That’s why we are preparing an option for our Vimeo users to disable MP4 playback for their Vimeo videos as well as obscure the Vimeo video ID. So I think we should hurry up and give you this new feature for a test.
I’m not sure where you are seeing the video download button though. It’s true that new Chrome versions have it, but we fixed it in FV Player 6.0.5.15.
Please let us know what browser you are using and at which URL of your website you can see the download button.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi, thanks for the reply.
In case there is only one option to avoid downloading my videos.
As I own the vimeo plus to host the videos, I a more detailed tutorial to know how I can insert the .mp4 videos that are no vimeo not my site to avoid the downloads, and is this possible or how should I proceed.I would like to use this hi that vimeo even if it does not play in other browsers, but it avoids the downloads.
The downloads are enabled whenever I use the full screen of the player, a download button appears next to the volume of the video. This only on android devices using google chrome. Follows print below.
http://www.cursos.projetodiario.net.br/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/print-download-video.jpg
When migrating to vimeo pro account, how should I proceed to put the videos in a way that prevents downloads.
Hello Sergio,
I found we are not detecting Chrome 56 which has this download button. It was introduced in Chrome 55.
FV Player 6.0.5.19 has been released now and it fixes this issue.
The issue is related to the native fullscreen mode – we originally set FV Player to use the Android native fullscreen mode to help the older and slower devices. So now we setting it back to use the FV Player fullscreen mode which will prevent that download button from showing up. The native fullscreen mode will be only used on Android < 4.4 and iOS < 7 if it's not using Chrome 55 and above. That should work for you as a quick and good enough fix, please let us know if you notice any issues with it. We will work on improving the Vimeo embedding. I don't think you need to change the way you are uploading the videos. Thanks, Martin
Hello
Thank you very much for the feedback, after this update the videos are working well with the vimeo.
Thank you and the foliovision team!
I’m still having the download button show up on the lower toolbar in Chrome. I’m using FV Player Version 6.0.5.23. Any advice? It is gone in Firefox, Edge, IE, etc.
Hello Stacey,
this issue was appearing on a mobile when using fullscreen.
Please let us know what mobile and what version you are using – I guess it’s Android 4.something.
Also, do you see the same issue here? https://foliovision.com/player/demos/cloudfront-download-protection
I think that FV Player might not be loading properly for you so then it falls back to using standard browser playback.
Thanks,
Martin
Hello Stacey,
I see in the other thread you said:
I’m having exactly this same problem in Chrome Version 57.0.2987.133 (64-bit) on Windows 10. Is there any solution, yet?
Please test on the link I sent above, I really think something is failing on your website.
Thanks,
Martin
You are correct. I checked and that is what is happening. Unfortunately, my client is not having it load correctly either, of course. Do you know why it would load on everything except Chrome?
I’m trying to play a mp4 that has been uploaded to the server. It plays successfully everywhere and everything else works great, it’s just that that Chrome control bar shows up.
Thanks so much for your help!
Stacey
Hello Stacey,
FV Player might not be loading properly at all. Please check if it works for your on the link I sent before and check if it appears with a white play button inside of a white circle like you can see on a screenshot here: https://cdn.foliovision.com/images/2014/05/400/Next-button.png (minus the “Next” button, that screenshot show the lightbox functionality)
Thanks,
Martin
No, it’s not working in Chrome at all. I am using
<div id=”video-wrap”>
[video width="505" height="284" class="video" mp4="http://myvideourlhere.mp4"][/video]
</div>
to insert the video. Could that cause a problem only in Chrome?
Thank you!
Hello Stacey,
FV Player works with [fvplayer] shortcode. If you want it to support [video] shortcode, please enable Settings -> FV Player -> Integrations/Compatibility -> Handle WordPress [video] shortcodes.
Thanks,
Martin
Getting closer…
Now, I just don’t have the featured image displayed before the video is playing. The video displays just a black box, with the play arrow in the circle, cross-browser.
I do have the “Add featured image automatically:
If the featured image is not set, splash image of the first player will be used.” box checked.Thank you SO much!!
Hello Stacey,
I think that WordPress [video] shortcode normally might be preloading the video and showing its first frame. FV Player doesn’t do this, although adding support for it was on our list. However some videos start with black screen and different browsers support this differently, so we haven’t done so yet. It wouldn’t work mainly on mobile devices, so setting a splash screen by hand is recommended.
The option you found make sure the splash screen is used for post featured image.
Thanks,
Martin
Can I use the normal player to insert an mp4 hosted on my server? I couldn’t get that to work; I only saw how to do Vimeo, YouTube, etc.
Hi Stacey,
It’s very easy, just check this guide – https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/start-up-guide#insert-videos
Thanks,
Eduard
I remember now that the problem was that I’m inserting the video into a text module in a template (Divi), and couldn’t get that to work. When I click on the fv player button and the user interface opens, nothing will save from there. I had to input everything manually (the size) into the code.
Changing options works in the plugin settings, but I can’t change anything or add videos using the insert button like I would on a normal post. That’s okay, though. I’ll make a splash screen and designate it there and, hopefully, will be good to go now.
Thank you!
Hi Stacey,
I just tested it in a Divi Builder’s text module (using Extra theme) and was able to use the shortcode editor normally. The problem might be that it doesn’t work when you are in the Text view, it only works in the Visual view (check the attached screenshot). Please check, if you were using the correct view.
Thanks,
Eduard
That was finally the key. I didn’t realize that it had to be entered into the visual panel – I was in the textual window when I was trying to click on the fvplayer button. Also, I was using the plain [video ] call instead of [fvplayer src= ] So, thanks so much! It looks so much better without Chrome’s ugly control bar! Now to get it the right size for devices…
Thanks!
