Remember Video Position option (How to get it to work)

Hello Michael,

it’s a new feature, so I’m having a look to make sure it works for you.

I checked on https://www.afrolandtv.com/hair-that-moves-trailer/ and it worked just fine. Since I tested as guest user it stored the video position into browser localStorage, which is a technology similar to cookies. The cookies are only used if localStorage fails, as they have a much lower capacity (we could only remember a couple dozen of videos there).

So you don’t have to worry about these cookies at all – FV Player is able to store them just as WordPress is able to set them when you log in to the website. We are also not working with the PHP session.

However I’m noticing that you are stripping the version strings from script URLs. So perhaps your browser was still getting the old script when you run your test. Here’s why to not strip the version strings from URLs of JavaScript and CSS files (short version: your browser won’t know it should download the scripts again if there was a change in any of hem): https://foliovision.com/2017/06/wordpress-cdn-best-practices

As a quick fix you can try to purge your Cloudflare cache and clear your browser cache too. Then this should work for you. You can also test as a guest user and you only need to play the video, let it play for a while, then reload the window and play again – it will continue playing where you left off.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Michael,

thank you for the login, I had a quick look, but was not able to figure it out – it seems these jQuery Ajax requests are somehow not executing properly on your website.

You can check how this work on our site here: https://foliovision.com/player/demos/video-position-saving You can test both logged in and not logged in.

We would be happy to resolve the issue right on your website with the pro support, however we can’t do it sooner than 3rd of April as in Slovakia we have some state holidays for the Easter.

I expect the versions strings are stripped by some plugin.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Michael,

so do you mean it works for you on iPad and iPhone, but only on full content videos? I worked for me, but perhaps the video progress event which we use works differently on your devices due to some reason.

Perhaps it’s only saving the video position every minute rather than every 15 seconds. So when you are watching the video trailer and you watch it from start to almost the end and you refresh there will it work?

Thanks,
Martin