Vimeo video title appearing and Sermon Manager issues

Hello smith234,

that’s the Vimeo video title. It’s there to help with the Google Analytics video play tracking.

Are you using Google Analytics or not? If not, then we could hide this information. Or we could only show the video title and don’t put “Vimeo: ” in front of it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello smith234,

unfortunately our Vimeo embedding doesn’t support the Vimeo tracking. We just let you use the video files without the Vimeo branding, if you are a paid Vimeo customer (Pro or Plus).

We released FV Player Pro 0.2.9.0.4 which removes the “Vimeo: ” part of the video hover titles. Thank you for letting us know about the issue.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello smith234,

Sermon plugin – is that some custom code on your website? It should just run do_shortcode() on the [fvplayer….] shortcode or it needs to be processed by the_content filter. Also the global $post needs to be present and functioning. Could you please ask your programmer to have a look?

If you use our shortcode outside of WordPress loop, there might be issues with automated YouTube and Vimeo splash screens. These get saved on post save WordPress actions, so if these are not hooked in your Sermon plugin, there might be issues.

Unfortunately your plugin seems to not be using all the WordPress standards, so it’s tricky to figure out without having a direct look.

Also, we will change the “Vimeo:” video title hiding into an option as some people like it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello smith234,

regarding the Vimeo video titles – in the new version you will have to enable the “Remove Vimeo information from player element title” to hide the Vimeo information. Some users want it and some don’t, so you can just turn it off.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Alec,

that’s right, it’s in Settings -> FV WordPress Flowplayer -> Vimeo (Pro) -> Remove Vimeo information from player element title.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello smith234,

are you seeing the update now? The WordPress plugin updates are cached, so it might take a while until it appears. You can always just download a fresh ZIP file for FV Player Pro from https://foliovision.com/edit

Unfortunately Vimeo Pro MP4 file URLs are not currently supported for quality switching as the file signature is changed for each quality version. Are you having issues with our Vimeo integration? https://foliovision.com/player/how-to-use-vimeo-pro Or is it just the issue with your Sermon plugin? Please let us know.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello smith234,

I don’t think using the Vimeo Pro video URLs works with the stats – could you please confirm that it works for you?

The Sermon plugin is a custom code done for your website? Have you tried suggesting the fix to the plugin author? If you put [fvplayer] shortcode into the sermon content, does the global $post work properly in it?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello smith234,

could you please setup a test page using the Sermon plugin where we can see our Vimeo integration not working? I wonder if the footer scripts are missing or what could go wrong. If that’s the case, then the Sermon plugin might not be using all the WordPress actions properly.

My question was if it was a plugin done for your website or if we can check it somewhere on WordPress.org to test it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello smith234,

I checked it out.

The sermon editing can be seen on “Sermon Details” and “Sermon Files” screenshots here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/sermon-manager-for-wordpress/screenshots/

The problem is that none of these fields is the post_content so the save_post action hook doesn’t process it – our plugin expects the [fvplayer] shortcode to be in post_content when parsing the splash screens.

So you need to add the splash screens by hand or you can ask the plugin author to start using the post_content for the sermon description and then put [fvplayer…] into it.

Next, the player worked for me (I tried some Vimeo video as well) when I put the [fvplayer…] shortcode into the “Video Embed Code” field. Could you please try that?

It wouldn’t work in “Description” field. That’s another side effect of not using post_content for the “Description” which effectively is the post content.

Thanks,
Martin

Hi Chan,

If the other plugin author won’t respect any WordPress conventions, it’s pretty tough for us to code around him. The problem in this case is with the other plugin.

post_content is where the content is supposed to go.

Hello smith234,

thank you notifying us about the broken sharing, it was caused by our improved Google Analytics tracking in 2.3.13. We will release version 2.3.14 which fixes this today.

Regarding the slow HD streaming, we had a similar report here: https://foliovision.com/support/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/troubleshooting/vimeo-videos-taking-too-long-to-load#post-4957

Brand new version of core Flowplayer should be out in a couple of weeks, so we can check this then it’s out.

Do you have the same experience when you check Settings -> FV WordPress Flowplayer -> Sitewide Player Defaults -> Prefer Flash player by default? I’m noticing that new version of Firefox has some bugs in MP4 playback (sends excessive amount of HTTP 206 requests on random seek), so I’m going to report that to Firefox developers.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello smithh234,

your FV Player Pro is installed in a directory named fv-player-pro-1, so I guess FV WordPress Flowplayer is failing to detect it.

Is it just the error message or are you having other issues as well?

Thanks,
Martin

Hi Chan,

Please try to observe WordPress conventions (not renaming plugin directories). WordPress works much better when you play by the rules.

Hi Martin,

Any additional work on this sermon plugin issue will have to be pro support. We are not responsible for every non-compliant piece of code on earth. If the sermon plugin author can’t be bothered to apply content parsing rules to his content, then clearly it’s just not that important to him.

Making the web work for you, Alec

Hi Chan,

You installed one plugin on top of another. Then you didn’t rename the directory after doing so. If you want be a cowboy with the code, you’ll have to learn to ride mustangs. While we do appreciate your bug notes, it does seem like you are deliberately working to break/sabotage our plugin. We will address your issues where we can but occasionally Martin will require a pro support incident to troubleshoot your sites and code.

Thanks.

Actually Chan, you did exactly that. You uploaded a version of our plugin with the -1 at the end by hand. When you download duplicate files on your OS, you create false numbered ones.

Martin (rather recklessly in my opinion) will make FV Player Pro work in folders with other names but frankly even Apple stopped allowing random moving of applications and paths. It’s living dangerously.