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Hello,
I have a need to store my videos at many different sources such as digitalocean, backblaze, linode, etc. However, currently FV Player only allows a few storage spaces, namely amazon and digitalocean.
I’ve noticed that Linode Storage also uses the AWS S3 bucket method similar to AMZ or DOS. So I tested it by entering the connection information to Linode Storage (including Access Key, Secret, Enpoint) and DigitalOcean Spaces entry and it worked fine. Unfortunately, FV Player does not allow to enter more than 1 bucket and more than 1 access key for the DigitalOcean Spaces section.Then I had another test that I copied the digitalocean-spaces function to form a similar function named linode-spaces then included it in fv-player pro and fv-player basic. Luckily I was successful and I was able to use 2 spaces from different suppliers at the same time (picture included below).
I know it is not correct to arbitrarily modify your original code, but this is only an experiment. And I’m not a programmer or a technician, but just an average user so I’m not sure if my tweaking will cause the plugin to fail (although I carefully changed it. all values from the digitalocean class to make sure they don’t overlap with the linode class).So I would like the team that created FV Player to add functionality to allow connections to Linode Spaces or any other Spaces using the same S3 protocol (Custom Spaces) as soon as possible. I also want you to develop the functionality to connect to BackBlaze Storage because I am not sure that you can connect to B2 like DigitalOcean Spaces or Linode Storage.
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I also recently discovered that the BunnyCDN function allows mutiple domains, but allows only one URL Token entry. This prevents using 2 Pull Zones at the same time (from 2 Spaces) without being able to use 2 Tokens for security. If I add a Token behind (ex: token1, token2) then an error immediately occurs that cannot load video content.
Luckily I found the solution right in the code notes of bunnycdn.class from the FV Player team (photo attached below). I manually added multiple pull zones and tokens at the same time, manually editing the code.
However, what I would like is that this function is adjusted directly in the Admin Dashboard, so it is very convenient for me and other users to easily use it.
Hope you are interested in the issues I raised.Thanks,
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Hello Richard,
these are some very interesting ideas. Our player does support many sources, although some of them are not directly integrated in our interface. While lincode is rather new to us, we have had users asking about B2 hosting, some even asking about the possibility of using it with FV Player Coconut instead of DoS.
I will make sure to forward your ideas and findings to our development team for discussion, as they might prove to be very useful. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Thanks,
Maria
Hello Maria,
Thank you for responding.
I hope you make sure that you also tell the development team to allow more storage space at the same time to integrate with Coconut.
Hello Richard,
it’s true that what we have is currently limitted. With FV Player Coconut we tried to build something that everybody will be able to use.
When it comes to more options for the video storage and so on – I would like to remove all the settings boxes from wp-admin -> Settings -> FV Player -> Hosting tab. And instead refactor the code and let you add a new video hosting by picking the type (S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, anything S3-compatible, Vimeo, YouTube and so on) and entering the configration parameters. That way you could have an infinite number of these video storage systems or CDNs configured.
Thanks,
Martin
