Issue with video checker

Hello Kristina,

we’ve been in touch with you via email and we fixed the issue on the site. The fix will be part of the next release.

It appears that your web host is using a different kind of configuration, where each site it represented internally as a sudomain and that made the PHP server variables a little bit complex. We added code to handle this.

However the warnings still appear as read – they suggest you that you rename these files from M4V to MP4 for better compatibility. The details are explained in the admin notification box:

“We recommend that you change file extension of M4V videos to MP4, to avoid issues with Firefox on PC. Currently you are using the “Default (mixed)” Preferred Flowplayer engine setting, so Firefox on Windows will always use Flash for M4V and will play fine.”

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Wendy,

this could be caused by a missing function in PHP on your localhost. Could you please look for the exact error message in your PHP error logs?

Or it might be caused by WP_DEBUG. Enabling this constant will cause WordPress to report all the PHP errors and they might break the JSON response. Please check your wp-config.php file for it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Wendy,

the warning doesn’t stop your video from playing. It’s just a note for you to check your video if it plays. We had issues with the above video format and mime type in Firefox, so we added that one.

If these videos play for you, could you please let us know what operating system and Firefox version are you using? Then we can narrow down our check.

Also, there was no change on the player controls recently. Or do you mean that it’s different from version 1.x? If so, here’s how to add the play/pause button on the control bar:

add_filter( 'fv_flowplayer_attributes', 'tweak_fv_flowplayer_attributes', 10, 2 );

function tweak_fv_flowplayer_attributes( $attrs ) {

$attrs['class'] .= ' play-button';

return $attrs;

}

Just put the above code into the template’s functions.php file.

Thanks,
Martin