Bitchute, OK.ru and Odysee

Reginald A. 6 years, 2 months ago

can you add the feature to FV Player so it can play videos from bitchute?

https://www.bitchute.com/video/eBu13pLg0VE8/

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Lucia 6 years ago

Hi Reginald!

Thanks for the tip. We will discuss adding with the team. I’ll keep you posted.

Thanks,
Lucia

Reginald A. 6 years ago

ok

also please add:

http://www.REAL.video

rhys 6 years ago

Considering Article 13 of the new EU Law, we need this.
We probably won’t be able to reliably use you etc.

It’s not just Bitchute, but https://bit.tube used the same decentralised technology. It’s ipfs video streaming I believe.

Please please please incorporate this, it would also mean people wouldn’t have to use Vimeo either and can save costs.

rhys 6 years ago

Oh and by the way, the forum doesn’t let me login.. it downloads a PNG file when I click login.

Martin 6 years ago

Hello rhys,

thank you for letting us know, we fixed that button now.

Thanks,
Martin

rhys 6 years ago

@Reginald A.

Decentralised IPFS (Bitchute/Bitube) is the silver bullet.
REAL.video has to deal will huge transcoding/bandwidth costs.
I like the platform, but an IPFS solution is much more cost-effective and censorship-resistant.

Please please please implement this.. I’ll even post a free ad for FVplayer on my youtube channel for you guys!

Reginald A. 6 years ago

hi
when I input the bitchute video address into fv player

https://www.bitchute.com/video/B4KIbuzeDsk/

I get error message:

“Video issues”

“flash: Video file not found”

Reginald A. 5 years ago

Hi
Is there any word on adding BITCHUTE to be able to play BITCHUTE listed videos as we do with YOUTUBE?
R

Alec Kinnear 5 years ago

Hi Reginald,

I’d like to support Bitchute as we support YouTube. YouTube becomes more stifling and censored every day to content creators. FV Player is a politically agnostic tool.

There’s no API right now for Bitchute as far as I can tell. We may be able to make Bitchute embedding possible anyway. We’ll take a look as soon as we can, probably next week.

Reginald A. 5 years ago

thanks

Martin 5 years ago

Hello Reginald,

we plan to add BitChute support, but after we restructure the FV Player modules which is currently our priority task.

To play a video from BitChute you can just extract the MP4 URL from the page source, it doesn’t seem to expire.

Thanks,
Martin

Reginald A. 5 years ago

Hi
what is the status of adding Bitchute?

I just tried playing the Bitchute url through FV Player and still not working?
says:
“flash: video file not found”

Juraj Kacaba 5 years ago

Hi Reginald,

Bitchute support is still on our to-do list. I’ll ask our development team about it on Monday and I’ll let you know what are our plans.

Thanks for asking!

Making the web work for you,
Juraj

Reginald A. 5 years ago

Hi
any update on adding Bitchute?

Martin 5 years ago

Hello Reginald,

we might be able to finish this before the end of this month.

Thanks,
Martin

Martin 5 years ago

Hello Reginald,

we are fixing some last editing issues currently.

If you have a test site where you would like to test our new Bitchute integration, you can reinstall FV Player from this ZIP file: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/134-bitchute-support.zip

To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player plugin you are using. WordPress will warn you that you might loose settings and data, but it’s not the case with our plugin, no settings now videos will be lost. Or you can just replace the plugin files via FTP.

Then you can use URL of Bitchute video like https://www.bitchute.com/video/xFqd1XKX2fo/ with FV Player and it will use that video MP4 file along with the splash screen.

Thanks,
Martin

Reginald A. 5 years ago

Hi
thank you all very much for this.

do I remove and reinstall FV Player and FV Player Pro or just FV Player?

R

Martin 5 years ago

Hello Reginald,

just FV Player, Bitchute will probably by supported in the free plugin.

Thanks,
Martin

rhys 5 years ago

Hey Martin

Really glad to here about Bitchute. One thing about Bitchute though is it’s currently limited to 360p.

Have you looked into integrating LBRY.tv as it seems to be getting a lot of traction lately.
It supports high res video, and is ‘very’ decentralized and as a platform seems to be growing quickly. I like the fact I can ‘seed’ or host my own content via the app.
I can already use their player using iframes, but you guys make the best player out-there imo, so would love to see you integrate them also.

Martin 5 years ago

Hello rhys,

please let us know if you had a chance to test the FV Player version with Bitchute support which I posted above.

It seems Lbry.tv could be supported as well, I’ll check it out with Alec.

Thanks,
Martin

rhys 5 years ago

Hi Martin

I tested it out, it worked at first on Brave until I an edited the post and changed a video link (changed link to different Bitchute video) but now says video cannot be found. Still seems to be working on Dissenter but never worked on Safari.

Below is a link to the test post.
https://bombardsubscriptions.com/testy-folio/

And below a video showing the issues I had.
https://bombardsubscriptions.com/video-issue/

Reginald A. 5 years ago

Hi
I was wondering if I need to delete and reinstall FV Player AND FV Player Pro or just FV Player??

R

Martin 5 years ago

Hello Reginald,

just FV Player, Bitchute will probably by supported in the free plugin.

Hello rhys,

it’s strange, I can see that video won’t play. Does that video have sharing disabled?

Thanks,
Martin

rhys 5 years ago

Hi Martin

I have sharing disabled by default in FVplayer settings as use a different plugin to share posts etc.

Reginald A. 5 years ago

OK!!!
worked perfectly with youtube
thanks, just what was needed

Reginald A. 5 years ago

I could not get it to work with Lbry.tv but it would be great if this could work also

thanks

Reginald A. 5 years ago

Hi
in my previews post I meant it works perfectly with bitchute video
thanks

Martin 5 years ago

Hello rhys,

I mean is that video has sharing disabled on Bitchute. I checked a couple and haven’t notice any message like that, so I wonder what makes that video not work.

Hello Reginald,

let us know if you run into any video which won’t work, as rhys did report issues with one of the videos.

Thanks,
Martin

rhys 5 years ago

Hi Martin

No it’s a regular upload, anyone can see or share the video.

rhys 5 years ago

Also the video seems to play ok on Dissenter?

Reginald A. 5 years ago

Hi
so far no problems at all with setting up the bitchute vids

will let you know if i run into any issues
again thanks

Martin 5 years ago

Hello rhys,

are you sure that video is entirely public? Is it one of your uploads?

I see it works in Dissenter – that browser is sending invalid HTTP Referrer header. Bitchute is checking that header on that video, so if it’s loading from your website it won’t play as standard browsers do set HTTP Referrer properly.

Thanks,
Martin

rhys 5 years ago

Hi Martin

Yes it’s entirely public.. below is a video of the settings.
https://bombardsubscriptions.com/bitchute-video/

Martin 5 years ago

Hello rhys,

we tested with z dozen of videos and unfortunately run into that same issue multiple times.

It seems Bitchute sometimes checks the referrer and sometimes it does not and we haven’t found a way to predict that.

Thanks,
Martin

Reginald A. 3 years ago

hi
is it possible to add other players such as odysee and brandnewtube.com ?
or any others?

thanks

Alec Kinnear 3 years ago

Hi Reginald,

Thanks for letting us know about the Bitchute playback issue. The big problem is there is still no API for reliably playing back Bitchute. Since we are grabbing the video via parsers, any changes to their source code can break playback.

Apparently there are other issues with Bitchute not looking after their users or content providers.

Regardless, we’ll get Bitchute playback up and running again soon.

rhys 3 years ago

“Reginald A. 2 months ago

hi
is it possible to add other players such as odysee and brandnewtube.com ?
or any others?

thanks”

Hey Alec

Any update on odysee or perhaps rumble?

Not really a huge issue for me anymore as I just embed their players instead and they run flawlessly. However it would be nice to be able to use FV player considering it has additional features that could be leveraged etc.

I don’t care to advertise FV player any longer as per our discussion last year, due to lack of follow up on requests for updates. However it sounds like some of your other customers also want the feature.

Alec Kinnear 3 years ago

Hi rhys.

Let’s see if we can add enough support to the various YouTube alternatives first to make promotion of FV Player worth your while. I’m not happy that we don’t have wider support for more sites. I despise the YouTube, Facebook, Twitter monopoly on social media and more so now that they’ve truly shown their colours, openly censoring several heads of state.

It’s up to software like FV Player to make it easier for publishers to publish independently and freely.

Martin 3 years ago

Hello rhys,

you can test the FV Player Bitchute integration by reinstalling FV Player from this ZIP file: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/refs/heads/134-bitchute-support-II.zip

To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player plugin you are using. WordPress will warn you that you might loose settings and data, but it’s not the case with our plugin, no settings now videos will be lost. Or you can just replace the plugin files via FTP.

When we were testing the integration about a year ago we found that about 1/2 of videos didn’t work.

Now we tested 5 videos and all of them worked so far.

We are also working on adding Odysee and OK.ru.

Thanks,
Martin

rhys 3 years ago

Thanks Martin

Especially looking forward to Odysee and Rumble support.

Martin 3 years ago

Hello rhys,

the OK.ru and Odysee support will be added to the next FV Player Pro version.

It would be great if you could help us with the testing – just deactivate and delete the FV Player Pro plugin you are using, then hit “Install Pro extension” at the top of the wp-admin -> Settings -> FV Player screen.

Then switch to Beta using wp-admin -> Settings -> FV Player Pro -> the “Release” drop-down menu at the top. Detailed instructions can be found here: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta

Then you will be able to insert OK.ru and Odysee videos. No configuration is required.

One thing which we are fix is retrieving the video splash screens automatically.

Thanks,
Martin

rhys 3 years ago

Hey Martin

Thats great news.

More than happy to test. Are you able to enable a temporary (7 day) license so I don’t have to test this on my main website?
I can’t really afford any down time on the main site if the player has issues etc.

Many thanks

Mária Stašová 3 years ago

Hello Rhys,

Our licensing system allows you to insert your dev site into the same license as your live website.

This article contains all the information you need in order to do so https://foliovision.com/2020/06/staging-site-licenses

Let us know, if it is suitable for your use case.

Thanks,
Maria

Martin 3 years ago

Hello Rhys,

please upgrade FV Player Pro to latest version and switch to beta (here’s how: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta )

Then the OK.ru and Odysee videos will work.

Thanks,
Martin