Pre-view Player should not be visible

Hello Ulf,

I’m not sure what could be the issue here.

I tried to post a Vimeo video while making another Vimeo video the Pay Per View “Preview Video”.

As a user who did not purchase the video I saw the full length of the actual video that was being sold in the player control bar before playing. Clicking the player would play the video trailer and show the trailer duration.

Once I purchased the video I could see the proper full video duration in the controlbar as well.

It seems to me that perhaps the video duration was not properly stored when inserting the full video. Please go to wp-admin -> FV Player, find the player in the list of players and use the “Export” link. It will give you output like this:

{"ab":"","ad":"","ad_height":"","ad_width":"","ad_skip":""...{"meta_key":"stats_play","meta_value":"1"},{"meta_key":"stats_seconds","meta_value":"1"}]}]}

Will it also contain this part? It’s the video duration stored as the video meta:

{"meta_key":"duration","meta_value":"..."}

If not, then please try to edit that player and remove the video link. Then put it back in and click outside of the video field. That should force it to check the video duration again. For FV Player 8 we have reworked the editor saving routines to avoid issues like this.

The control bar indeed does not show all the different subtitles which are available once you start to play the full video.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Ulf,

Your export shows that there is the video duration, so it should show in the player control bar before playing. So it should show for the preview video too.

You can try this to hide the control bar for the Pay Per View video before buying:

.flowplayer.is-splash[data-popup*="ppv"] .fp-controls {
  display: none;
}

As you can see it uses the attribute selector which looks for ppv in the player data-popup attribute. It’s not ideal, but there is no class which could be used to determine the status of the Pay Per View for the user. So it should be added in our code.

Thanks,
Martin