Hi Martin,
finally I came out from the impasse.
Using GTAG I created a 1 minute heartbeat to check if a user is still on page even if with no focus on page, and I added some variables to count the userid on my website.
The sum of heartbeat gives me the total minutes of user on page and checking if the fv-player is playing or not, I have the total minutes of real watching time … finally.
It worked in my last live with a peak of more than 950 concurrent visitors and I’m going to move on GA4 platform on events based.
I know it could be done in a better way, but I’m not a developer as I said.

Thanks for your support.
b.r.
A.

Hi Martin,
some bad news about new version.
I tried a 35 min live transmission and I got only a couple of heartbeats and only a Seconds played that reports 18min. No quarter as expected.
But the worst news is that Video Start is missing also, so I can’t monitor when a viewer start to watch.
Do you think is possible change the paradigma: if the player registers a Video Start event and then more closely Video heartbeat (let me say 30sec), I could trace all the heartbeats to understand if viewer is watching.
What is your tought?
Thank you
A.

Thanks Martin,
is it planned for near future release this kind of different approach or I have to find out how to track the user behavior by myself?

A.

Hi Martin,
thanks a lot for your answer.
1) I thought that reply every 30 sec. and custom text could be a couple of values easily to add to settings page, that’s why I asked you if it was planned to be customizable
2) I’ll try to check and I’ll come back to you with more info if they there will be

Just once information. Both of changes you posted me in beta realease, I’ll find them in official plugin update for wordpress? Can I update your plugin to 7.4.21.727 or I have to wait for a specific version without loosing these features?

Thank you
Alessandro

Hi Martin,
these are the results of my test.
– if I use the standard release and I set 3 quality levels for qsel, but I have only 2 files, video doesn’t play at all!
– if I use the beta release and I set 3 quality levels for qsel, but I have only 2 files, I can play video, switch between 2 existing quality, but if I choose the third quality with no existing file, video stop definitively and I can’t come back anymore.

I think this is an important point to fix, because I have more videos with different renditions to publish (and not only me), but I can choose only a qsel schema for all of them, so I”l have some video qorking and some other not.

Many thanks for understanding
my best
Alessandro

Hi Martin,
don’t worry for delay.
1) yes
2) yes both video
3) it doesn’t work. I added Dominika file to http://www.lealipervolare.org/test, so you can see all the case.

All videos in test page have “admin: Video OK” as result. The first and third has miem type on bucket set on “content type: video/x-m4v” and “content type: video/mp4” respectively. (if I change mime, I obtain a Video issue on checker, so I think they are well configured)

All videos works well on desktop.

I sent you 3 reports titled ‘Refer to ticket “Amazon S3 on Android”. Video x’ where ‘x’ is the video number on test page.
Hope this help for analysis.

Thanks
Alessandro

Hi MArtin,
that’s good, but I have a question about the location of CSS files.
After the last plugin update I found a folder named wp-content/fv-flowplayer-custom and a style-1.css inside.
The plugin uses this file for style and not the css files inside wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/css.
The style-1.css is the same of flowplayer.css. It contais relative path to folder and something more (it’s a little bit bigger).
Is it changed something?
Your code in your post works only in style-1.css

Thanks
Alessandro

Hi Martin,
many thanks.
Please keep me updated on news about this topic.
I heard about some tests by youtube started on February with this kind of protocol, so I think dash will be soon the new standard.
Please keep me post on news.

Thanks
Alessandro

this is the .mpd xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MPD xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="urn:mpeg:dash:schema:mpd:2011"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:mpeg:DASH:schema:MPD:2011 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/MPEG-DASH_schema_files/DASH-MPD.xsd"
profiles="urn:mpeg:dash:profile:isoff-live:2011"
type="dynamic"
minimumUpdatePeriod="PT4.538S"
availabilityStartTime="2015-05-08T12:36:20Z"
timeShiftBufferDepth="PT50.0S"
suggestedPresentationDelay="PT15.0S"
minBufferTime="PT6.0S">
<ProgramInformation>
<Title>myStream-720_all</Title>
</ProgramInformation>
<Location>http://joinpeople.dyndns.org:1935/JoinPeople/_definst_/ngrp:myStream-720_all/manifest_w967380193.mpd</Location>
<Period id="0" start="PT0.0S">
<AdaptationSet id="0" mimeType="video/mp4" maxWidth="1280" maxHeight="720" par="16:9" frameRate="30" segmentAlignment="true" startWithSAP="1" subsegmentAlignment="true" subsegmentStartsWithSAP="1">
<SegmentTemplate timescale="90000" media="chunk_ctvideo_cfm4s_rid$RepresentationID$_cs$Time$_w967380193_mpd.m4s" initialization="chunk_ctvideo_cfm4s_rid$RepresentationID$_cinit_w967380193_mpd.m4s">
<SegmentTimeline>
<S t="136811880" d="900000"/>
<S d="900000"/>
<S d="900000"/>
<S d="900000"/>
<S d="900000"/>
</SegmentTimeline>
</SegmentTemplate>
<Representation id="p0a0r0" codecs="avc1.42801e" width="426" height="240" sar="1:1" bandwidth="350000" />
<Representation id="p0a0r1" codecs="avc1.4d401f" width="640" height="360" sar="1:1" bandwidth="800000" />
<Representation id="p0a0r2" codecs="avc1.4d4029" width="1280" height="720" sar="1:1" bandwidth="1800000" />
</AdaptationSet>
<AdaptationSet id="1" mimeType="audio/mp4" lang="eng" segmentAlignment="true" startWithSAP="1" subsegmentAlignment="true" subsegmentStartsWithSAP="1">
<Role schemeIdUri="urn:mpeg:dash:role:2011" value="main"/>
<SegmentTemplate timescale="44100" media="chunk_ctaudio_cfm4s_rid$RepresentationID$_cs$Time$_w967380193_mpd.m4s" initialization="chunk_ctaudio_cfm4s_rid$RepresentationID$_cinit_w967380193_mpd.m4s">
<SegmentTimeline>
<S t="67037821" d="441000"/>
<S d="441000"/>
<S d="441000"/>
<S d="441000"/>
<S d="441000"/>
</SegmentTimeline>
</SegmentTemplate>
<Representation id="p0a1r0" codecs="mp4a.40.2" audioSamplingRate="44100" bandwidth="196000">
<AudioChannelConfiguration schemeIdUri="urn:mpeg:dash:23003:3:audio_channel_configuration:2011" value="2"/>
</Representation>
</AdaptationSet>
</Period>
</MPD>


Hi Martin,
I didn’t see your reply.
That’s example is not my behavior.
I’m already able to send my stream by GoCoder to my EC2 Wowza and it works well.
My problem is the output, because EC2 + CloudFront caches http protocol only, so I would like to use something else rtmp protocol.
So, I thought that using HDS or MPEG-DASH was a winner choice, but it seems FVP doesn’t support that.
Meanwhile I worked for a solution, I stressed my Wowza and I saw that EC2 without CloudFront could be the best choice to serve flash browser using rtmp protocol, but …. I would like to use smil file or (better) wowza name groups (ngrp) to achieve adaptive bitrate, but I don’t understand how I can use them with FVP.
Basically mil and ngrp are xml file passed to player to find streamer server and define the bitrate choice and they use http protocol, but it seems I can’t pass http:// string to FVP.
I hope I clarified my question.
Many thanks
Alessandro

Hi Alec,
sorry … I missed a “V” :)
About Cloudfront I know there are no ways, but considering a standard use of your excellent plugin, how I have to configure it in order to serve a flash browser just having a HLS stream?
In my WOWZA config I can play a LIVE stream in DASH, HDS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming and HLS and not RTMP because my application is “Live HTTP Origin” and RTMP output is not available.
Could you show me an example?
Many thanks

Alessandro