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I have an unusual need: I’d like to use FV Flowplayer Pro to simulate a webinar.
In order to do that, it would need to do a few things.
1) I need an option to hide the time-bar at the bottom, so visitors don’t know how much of the video is left, and so they are unable to skip forward or backward.
2) As a separate request, I’d need to remove the ability to pause the video.
3) Add to that an auto-play, and it should do the trick.With those 3 features, there’s lots of new uses of the player that would open up.
Bonus #4) This would be the hardest request, but were it possible, then FV Flowplayer Pro could pretty much become a complete evergreen webinar player: The ability to set a start time for the video. Let’s say you set it to 6pm (based on your website time), and someone arrives at the page at 6:05, then to have the video load from 0:05… that would make this a true webinar. You could schedule it to run at a certain time, knowing that all website visitors are at the same point in the video.
Just some thoughts for improvement.
Love this player, keep up the great work.
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Hello Bradley,
thank you for the suggestions.
1) If you enable Settings -> FV Player Pro -> Post Interface Options -> Controlbar you will be able to hide it completely.
2) We could have an option to set the player to the disabled state – that’s when clicking it does nothing and it just plays. Perhaps it could be another level of the Controlbar setting – currently it’s On or Off, but it could be On (default), Hidden (controlbar gone, but you can still pause the video) and Off (no interaction at all).
3) You can freely combine autoplay and the Controlbar setting.
4) We had a feature request like this before. If you are really interested, we can send you some proposal for development of such feature.
Thanks,
MartinAh, I wasn’t aware of the control bar setting. That’s excellent. I think the introduction of one extra state where the video cannot be play/ paused could be valuable.
Regarding autoplay, will that work on all devices? I heard somewhere that Chrome disables autoplay by default. Is that true?
Lastly, I have an idea for my website which could really benefit from option #4. I can’t yet confirm that I need the feature, but if it isn’t difficult to put together a proposal for the development of it, I’d love to see it.
Brad
I’m so sorry I never got back to you on this! I thought I did, but must have slipped my mind.
These all sound like perfect solutions, and are very thought out. I’d like to know more about a proposal for developing feature 4, for sure. And as for the rest, I’d love to see them implemented some time too.
