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After reading this bullet point:
No expensive plugins: unlike other players who nickel and dime you for every feature, with FV Flowplayer all advanced features are available in the standard license (Google Analytics, Cuepoints, Native fullscreen, Keyboard shortcuts, Subtitles, Slow motion, Random seeking, Retina ready)Am I missing something here.. I do not see where to:
1. select from different player skins.
2. Cue points
3. Slow-Motion
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Hi Nicole,
Martin will get back to you tomorrow or Monday about how to implement these features and we’ll add some better documentation for these features.
Which of them do you need?
Thanks for your patience.
Actually I come from a background of highly customizing flowplayer from it’s earliest versions to now. From scripting it to customizing CSS.
Right now I’m looking over the plugin’s code hooks / filters and js to see what I can and can’t do.I’m the one who has been in contact with you in regards to using sub domain mapping for bucket name (url obfuscation and download security).
Those emails between you and I were from ‘bgspoonz’.But right off-hand, I’ll be looking for a way to map custom fields in the plugin’s admin to the functions for the player.
For example, having one bucket WITH folders / dirs inside leads to alot of copy/paste for my clients. When the could in a custom field list the bucket (which you basically have this).. BUT another custom field for folders / dirs inside that bucket. Say, a video folder, a splash image folder, mobile version video folder, etc.
This would leave the client with only having to enter just ONE thing, movie.mp4 or splash.jpg vs whole urls.I also noticed that the plugin’s complete API is not in docs, I can understand that as I’m sure you all are in-work on a ton of things, I can only imagine :)
My sole purpose for buying and supporting your plugin is the genius behind the coding done for implementing Amazon S3 as I was pulling hairs out trying to manage permissions / expiry etc on the bucket(s) itself.. never even thought about creating user(s) and applying permissions etc there! Can’t even begin to tell you the hours spent on trying to get correct policy applied to bucket allowing ONLY one domain to read, even with their policy generator it’s a pain.
Hi Nicole,
I’m glad we were able to help. We’re happy to keep improving the code of our video player. We aim to be the most feature rich and easiest to use video player on WordPress.
Most of the advanced functionality which works with Flowplayer works directly in our plugin.
Thanks for being part of Foliovision!
Hello Nicole,
currently Cuepoints need to be added into out interface. The only way is to use the fv_flowplayer_attributes filter and add in data-cuepoints with value like “[1.5, 2, 3, 10]”
Then using the cuepoint JavaScript event, you can hook in any action.
You can read more about the filters and event in our API documentation.
Slow Motion is an option of HTML5 players in some browsers. Normal its available in the right click contextual menu, but that has changed in core Flowplayer recently. You can use Shift + left or right arrow key to slow down or speed up the video.
Thanks,
MartinUnderstood.
–1– Also, in reference to skinning the player. Do you have doc for this?
–2– Lastly, I’m looking to add player instance right into a template file. I would like for client to only have to enter 3 pieces of information:
1. Video filename
2. Mobile version filename
3. Splash ImageI want to set the video player instance right into template file, like single-video-php. Instead of having client who has hundreds of videos have to setup each player instance in admin.
Hello Nicole,
1. the player skin color can be customized in Settings -> FV WordPress Flowplayer -> Player Skin. We are working on adding checkboxes for all the player buttons and also support for custom skins. Right now you can only override the existing CSS.
2. You can let your client enter the information as custom fields and then output the required shortcode and run do_shortcode() on it.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi Nicole,
That’s a great idea.
Martin’s solution for shortcodes is the right one and could lead to a really great site owner experience.
Hi Martin,
Could you please build those custom fields into a proper interface which can be enabled in options and can be turned on and off using WordPress Screen Options?
We should also do a page of documentation on how to use FV Flowplayer in templates with quick video entry.
In reply to Martin:
I should have asked this clearer, when I say ‘skin’ I’m aware of the skin modifying classes.. I meant not using the minimalist player but the functional player.In reply to Alec:
You said, “We should also do a page of documentation on how to use FV Flowplayer in templates with quick video entry.”
This would REALLY be helpful. As of right now, I have no idea of even where to begin to build a shortcode like Martin explained that includes the player in it!
I kinda thought the player was containing 100% of flowplayer with amazon s3 connection coded in.
Hi Nicole,
I kinda thought the player was containing 100% of flowplayer with amazon s3 connection coded in.
We have 100% of Flowplayer.org functionality plus a load more custom functionality and integration into WordPress which we’ve programmed. You can change the player CSS as much as you like to add another skin. What we do not have right now is multiple skins in a single website (which doesn’t sound like a particularly useful feature to me, outside of websites for small children: FV Flowplayer is focused on useful features like advertising, security and efficient workflow, not eye candy and bells and whistles).
If you’d like to have us build the custom template and posting interface for your client, please be in touch via a support ticket and we can quote you for any custom programming.
Making the web work for you, Alec
There are a number of things that you and Martin said are ‘coming soon’ and I totally understand that.
I ask the questions i am asking because I am tasked with transforming a number of client’s websites to WP. And they are looking to keep the customizations that I have done to the players they have now.
Hi Nicole,
We are available for custom WordPress development, especially in the area of improving video presentation, so don’t hesitate to contact us if you’d like help with specific websites.
Thanks.
Yea, the dev in me wouldn’t allow me to even think about paying for customizing things lol..
Alec PLEASE understand I am totally thrilled with the player!! You guys have saved me TONS of time!!! I can get my client’s up an running with the player just fine, and then I intend on putting my code cap on and seeing what I can do on my end with adding more options / settings for player. As I do jump hurdles I will definitely pass on code.
