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Hi guys
We use our RSS feed to pass the content of posts to our app. If a post contains the fvplayer shortcode, the video player works well on the website, but in the feed only an image is displayed linking to the web page. We would like the video to be embedded in the feed.
For example – with [fvplayer src="https://youtu.be/tA-SLHNG0FE"]:
<p class="fv-flowplayer-feed"><a href="http://maroelamedia.co.za/vreemdhede/video-menseketting-red-hond-uit-stormwater-uitloopkanaal/" title="Click to watch the video">[This post contains video, click to play]<br /><img src="http://i2.wp.com/img.youtube.com/vi/tA-SLHNG0FE/maxresdefault.jpg?w=400&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a></p>WordPress’s default behaviour is to create an iframe that works well by embedding the video in our app.
For example – with https://youtu.be/tA-SLHNG0FE:
<iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/tA-SLHNG0FE?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe>Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Kobus.
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Hello Kobus,
WordPress can do this as they simply load the video from YouTube, for us there is no easy option.
In our case it’s not so simple, but I see we could be inserting similar iframes if the iframe embedding is enabled: https://foliovision.com/2016/04/improved-iframe-embedding
Thanks,
Martin
Hello Kobus,
we worked on this but when reading the RSS feed in Thunderbird the scripts are not getting executed, not even in iframes. So I’m not sure if we can rely on RSS feed to understand all the scripts and provide an iframe version of our player in it. If it’s just for your app, then you should be using some other kind of feed.
You can test a dev version of our plugin found in this ZIP file, perhaps it helps with your issue: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/task-5072143-RSS-iframe.zip
Thanks,
Martin
Hi Martin,
Here’s what I want to supply to RSS feed automatically.
Splashscreen plus link to view the video in a browser with autoplay on (if the person clicks on a splashscreen we can assume s/he will want to watch the video).
Generally that link could be to a small chromeless version of the page (i.e. just the video) rather than some huge page with all kinds of other info) or even directly to the mobile player.
Thanks!
Hi Martin
Thank you for the feedback. I’ll give the dev version a go.
Best
Kobus
Hi Martin
The RSS-iframe version above seemed to do the trick, but the latest version of fvplayer removed the iframe. We upgraded in case there were security fixes.
Having a user click the link to play the video in a browser is an okay plan-B, but ideally it should play in the app.
Would it be possible to please add the URL to the original video inside a hidden field as part of the post content? This way, the app developer could parse the content and create the player himself, or at least embed the original video without ads.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Best regards
Hello Kobus,
sorry about that, please try to reinstall from the same ZIP file as sent above. I updated it to the current master version of FV Player, but it should work the way you need in the RSS feed.
The problem with this is that not every RSS feed reader will support iframe. We need to figure out if it’s really a safe default.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi Martin
Thank you for updating the iframe version! Next time we’ll check the changelog for important security updates before updating and decide if we’d rather stay on this version.
Could it not be a setting in the plugin to switch the iframes on or off? That would make updating a lot easier for us. How are the other users embedding the VAST player in their apps?
Regards
Kobus
Hello Kobus,
we will add an option to put the iframes into the RSS feed – off by default.
I think other users use WP REST or some other API to load the posts from WordPress into mobile phone apps.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi Martin
Thank you so much for adding the option to the plugin! The WP REST API is still heavily under development from what I understand and we’re a bit concerned about it’s security at this stage. This setting makes our maintenance a lot easier.
Thank you for your help.
Keep well
Kobus
