Adding Chromecast to FV Player

Devin 7 years, 4 months ago

Hi Foliovision Team,

I just had a guitar student on my site ask if I’d ever considered adding Chromecast to the video player here at http://countryguitaronline.com. I’ve used Chromecast to cast HBO Go from my iPad to my TV and it was pretty handy. Might be a cool feature to add to the FV Player…easier to watch guitar lesson videos on a full screen TV. Is that something you’d add to the video player itself? Or maybe another WordPress plugin could detect video and offer a Chromecast option?

Just thought I’d run this past y’all.

Thanks!
Devin

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Eduard 7 years ago

Hi Devin,

We are currently working on upgrading the core of our player to Flowplayer 7 technology and it should bring support for Chromecast and Apple TV, but it’s a long run and it probably won’t be done until this fall. We’ll definitely announce it o our blog, though.

Thanks,
Eduard

David 7 years ago

Eduard,

Any updates on the progress of upgrading to Flowplayer 7 core? I’m very interested in implementing the Chromecast and Apple TV casting feature on a new membership site I’m launching.

Thank you,
David

Eduard 7 years ago

Hello David,

We are in the final stages of our work on this. FV Player 7 will be probably available for testing at the start of the next week.

Thanks,
Eduard

David 7 years ago

Hi Eduard,

Is a version 7 beta available yet? I’d love to test it out.

Eduard 7 years ago

Hi David,

I’m sorry, but the update got delayed a bit so it could be available for testing in December at the earliest.

Thanks,
Eduard

David 7 years ago

Thanks for the update.

I’m wondering if the Chromecast feature in FlowPlayer 7 will work with the Vimeo hosting option without referencing the direct links to the .mp4 files in the page source code. It seems like the default Chromecast receiver app is looking for a specific file type which could only be obtained by linking to the unprotected .mp4 hosted on Vimeo. This would work fine but would negate the domain level privacy setting.

Wondering if I might be required to use Bunny CDN or similar with url
authentication to implement the casting feature without exposure to easy hotlinking?

Eduard 7 years ago

Hi David,

I did some research on this today, but I wasn’t able to find an answer. We haven’t tested the Chromecast physically yet, but we will probably do so in the near future, so I’ll let you know what we find out.

Thanks,
Eduard

David 7 years ago

Eduard,

Yesterday I received the message about the black Friday sale and the roll out of new features. It mentioned that “FV Player core 7 is in beta already along with a new player interface…”

If I purchase Pro today, will I be able to access the core 7 beta features immediately using the dropdown setting in Pro? If so, is the Chromecast feature a part of the core 7 code where I can test it out with my devices?

Many thanks,

David

Alec Kinnear 7 years ago

Hi David,

Thanks for your post:

Yesterday I received the message about the black Friday sale and the roll out of new features. It mentioned that “FV Player core 7 is in beta already along with a new player interface…”

If I purchase Pro today, will I be able to access the core 7 beta features immediately using the dropdown setting in Pro?

Some of them. It’s very beta. Do not put it into production please.

If so, is the Chromecast feature a part of the core 7 code where I can test it out with my devices?

It should be but it hasn’t been tested yet.

Thanks for trying FV Plugins.

Alec

Martin 6 years ago

Hello David,

FV Player 7 supports Chromecast (MP4, HLS). FV Player Pro 7.2.3.727.beta supports Chromecast also for Vimeo videos.

Thanks,
Martin

Håvard Hoffmann 5 years ago

Chromecast from my iphone not work for chromecast computer work

Juraj Kacaba 5 years ago

Hi Håvard,

Chromecast does work only on desktop and Android devices. We’re currently working on support for iOS devices. We’ll keep you posted.

Thanks,

Juraj

Håvard Hoffmann 5 years ago

Thanks

Juraj Kacaba 5 years ago

Hi Håvard,

We’ve done testing and unfortunately it looks like we won’t be able to implement Chromecast support for iOS. As it turned out Google is limiting Chromecast on iOS to work only with their own 3rd party apps(like Youtbe etc.).

There’s probably now way for us to implement this at this moment. We’ll wait and closely watch all info from Google about Chromecast.

We’ll keep you posted if anything new appears.

Making the web work for you,
Juraj