Seems to work, thank you!
How is the number of devices checked now?

Hi Martin,

I installed the new version of FV Player Pay per View, but now I cannot play any videos when logged in as non-administrator.
The error message is:
html5: Unsupported video format.
And the console says:
Cannot play media. No decoders for requested formats: application/x-mpegurl, application/x-mpegurl

??

Now I will try to roll back to the old version of the plugin.

I connected to the user via Zoom, he showed me the situation (he logs in and navigates to the video) .
Error: maximum number of allowed devices reached.
Then I increased the number of allowed devices (from 3 to 5), after that he could play the video again.
Now we lost the error state and I cannot get the debug information :)
For the moment, we consider the problem as solved.

I understand that if the same user visits the site on 3 different days, with different IP addresses, he will be considered as 3 different devices?

Thank you for your help, the video encryption was successful in making it difficult to download the content!

I see, it is just a question of what is displayed.
Indeed, showing the bitrate would be good, because this is the number that will not be duplicate, in contrast to the vertical resolution.
In my case, for example, I have a video that shows many slides with text, and I plan to reduce the bitrate but not the resolution to keep the text readable. The transitions will be pixelated but the texts will be clear.
Thank you again for your quick answer!

Success, thank you!
Even when logged in, I cannot break the video playing in Firefox.

Look here:
https://videos.globalcountry.org/testing/
it plays in Google, not in Firefox, like all the videos on this site.

I installed a new plugin (WP Code-PHP Snippets) but only later than the problem showed up.

Your help is very welcome!

Hello Martin,

your new PayPerView module lets me give access to the videos for certain membership levels only, this is very helpful!

My problem in the past was: When I have ~ 200 membership levels, how do I offer the visitor only a small number of them (that apply to the video that he is interested in).
Support of RCP was not helpful, and the offer from codeable was nearly 1000 $, so I solved it myself, I can give you the adapted registration.php file if interested.

Now I am trying to get your new PPV plugin running on my staging site which is a fourth level domain (like staging.my.videos.com).
I got it running without problems on a third level subdomain (like staging.videos.com). Can the number of subdomain levels make a difference for this plugin?

Greetings,
Michael

I wanted to keep you updated regarding my efforts to rent out groups of videos.

We have ~200 videos in groups of ~10 that we want to rent out, typically
– this individual video
– this group of videos
– all videos
That means the list of offered subscriptions will be long.

I tried to solve this in RestrictContentPro.
I wanted to create posts containing
– a public section (description) and
– a restricted section (the video and more text).
– In the end of the post, a registration form should be shown for users *without access*, showing the subscription alternatives for this video. For users with a valid subscription I wanted to hide the registration form.

Setting up public and restricted sections was easy, not so the registration form handling. Although there is a shortcode that is supposed to do exactly this, I could not make this work. The registration form is always showing, including the valid subscription that the visitor already has. This will confuse the visitor for sure. The support directed me to a website for freelancers.

Then I wanted to find out a way how I can limit the alternatives in the registration page from ~250 to those that the visitor is interested in, but again: custom programming is needed.

Also in Memberpress I do not see shortcodes that customize the registration form.
Maybe I will have more luck in Woocommerce extensions, like “Paywall for Woocommerce”.

More to come…

Thank you, with the Vimeo privacy setting “Hide from Vimeo” it works now!
However, I swear on “The Art of Computer Programming” that before we could use the Vimeo setting “Private” as well. :)

sorry for the locked test page; the video does not play.
I will find out how to open the page.

I reinstalled the FV Player Pro.

I noticed that the video picker brings the password now, thank you.

The privacy of the video is set in Vimeo to: “Private (Only people with the link can access)”, so it is OK if the video plays if one knows the link (with the number and hash).

We do not use passwords to access the Vimeo videos.

I also tried setting the Vimeo privacy to “Hide from Vimeo – Private on your account, but embeddable anywhere”, switched from Beta to Release and back to clear the cache :) and it still plays. Only the poster (which is stored in the Vimeo CDN) is gone, but this is a minor problem. I set it new from the user interface.

Greetings,
Michael

The allowed domain for the mentioned video is
(please do not publish).

I changed the Vimeo privacy settings to “Hide from Vimeo” and did the trick with the Vimeo token.
No improvement.
—
I disabled the FV Player Vimeo Security plugin, **then it plays!**
—
The number of the Vimeo video is (please do not publish)

Thank you for your time!

Thank you for your answers!
The problem is solved, the confusion was in something else.
I activated the custom startend in the GUI now, this makes things even simpler.

thank you for your answer; here is a test page: (redacted)

We have the FV player 7.4.34 and the
FV Player Pro 7.4.33 installed (newest version).

Yes, we are streaming via Cloudfront.
Signed URLs / signed cookies are switched off.
I instructed the users not to use Safari.
Also I instructed them to try the following first aid measures:
– reload page
– switch off antivirus software
– restart computer
– make sure to use an up to date Windows

More details will come as I receive them.
:)

a custom development would be in the 4 digit area, right? I am afraid we cannot afford that at the moment.

the people from EZDRM say that it will be easy to implement DRM protection into your player. They list Flowplayer as partner.

I am interested to receive your quotation for implementing DRM protection in a way that makes it possible for our customers to download the paid content and use it offline.

Thank you for your answer!

After meeting with EZDRM, I will let you know if we are interested in receiving your offer.

Here are small observations that I made in the Pay per View plugin:
– the blue button “Watch Full Video” inside the video window does not seem to work (does not put the item into the cart), only the link below the video window does.
– when I have paid the video as a not-logged in user, I cannot make it play, the website wants me to pay again. In the settings, the Paypal IPN verification is enabled. When I disable the Paypal IPN verification, same problem. If I pay the video as a logged-in user, I can play it!
This is not a real problem for me because I will force all users to have a user account.
– When I watch the video, having paid, below the video window there is the message “You have xx hours to watch the video”, and below shows the blue button “1 EUR — Purchase ->”, which may confuse unexperienced users because they have paid already.

However, your plugin is great!

Greetings from the Netherlands!

I messed up the FV Player: I wanted to reinstall the plugins, so I deactivated them, removed them, and downloaded them again, but now something is out of sync. When I create a player now, it cannot find the video (the Admin Checker says OK, but it does not play). If I want to delete/edit/clone/export it in the backend, it says “Invalid Player ID”.
Bah.
Having said this, the #post_ID is undefined in the post.

the system info of EDD says the following (maybe it is interesting for you):

### Begin System Info (Generated 2019-01-04 09:30:02) ###

-- Site Info

Site URL:                 https://videos.globalcountry.org
Home URL:                 https://videos.globalcountry.org
Multisite:                No

-- Hosting Provider

Host:                     DBH: localhost:3306, SRV: videos.globalcountry.org

-- User Browser

Platform:                 Windows 
Browser Name:             Firefox  
Browser Version:          64.0 
User Agent String:        Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Wi 
              n64; x64; rv:64.0) Gecko/2010010
                          1 Firefox/64.0

-- WordPress Configuration

Version:                  5.0.2
Language:                 en_US
Permalink Structure:      /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Active Theme:             Divi 3.19
Show On Front:            page
Page On Front:            Global Country Videos (#174)
Page For Posts:           Unset
ABSPATH:                  /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/
Remote Post:              wp_remote_post() works
Table Prefix:             Length: 3   Status: Acceptable
WP_DEBUG:                 Disabled
Memory Limit:             40M
Registered Post Stati:    publish, future, draft, pending, private, trash, auto-draft, inherit, request-pending, request-confirmed, request-failed, request-completed, refunded, failed, revoked, abandoned, processing, active, inactive

-- EDD Configuration

Version:                  2.9.9
Upgraded From:            None
Test Mode:                Disabled
AJAX:                     Enabled
Guest Checkout:           Enabled
Symlinks:                 Disabled
Download Method:          Direct
Currency Code:            EUR
Currency Position:        before
Decimal Separator:        .
Thousands Separator:      ,
Upgrades Completed:       upgrade_payment_taxes,upgrade_customer_payments_association,upgrade_user_api_keys,remove_refunded_sale_logs,update_file_download_log_data
Download Link Expiration:  hour(s)

-- EDD Page Configuration

Checkout:                 Valid
Checkout Page:            https://videos.globalcountry.org/checkout/
Success Page:             https://videos.globalcountry.org/checkout/purchase-confirmation/
Failure Page:             https://videos.globalcountry.org/checkout/transaction-failed/
Downloads Slug:           /downloads

-- EDD Gateway Configuration

Enabled Gateways:         PayPal Standard
Default Gateway:          PayPal Standard

-- EDD Tax Configuration

Taxes:                    Disabled
Tax Rate:                 0
Display On Checkout:      Not Displayed
Prices Include Tax:       No

-- WordPress Active Plugins

Content Control: 1.1.0
Display PHP Version: 1.4
Divi Builder: 2.19.2
Easy Digital Downloads: 2.9.9
Force HTTPS: 1.2.0
Formidable Forms: 3.04.03
Formidable Forms Pro: 3.04.03
FV Player: 7.3.4.727
FV Player PayPerView: 7.2.2.727
FV Player Pro: 7.3.4.727
Login Widget With Shortcode: 5.8.4
User Role Editor: 4.47 (needs update - 4.48)
WP Mail SMTP: 1.4.1

-- WordPress Inactive Plugins

All-in-One WP Migration: 6.82
ARI Adminer: 1.1.12
Simple Tags: 2.4.7
Tag Pages: 1.0.1

-- Webserver Configuration

PHP Version:              7.0.31
MySQL Version:            5.7.23
Webserver Info:           Apache

-- PHP Configuration

Memory Limit:             256M
Upload Max Size:          40M
Post Max Size:            40M
Upload Max Filesize:      40M
Time Limit:               120
Max Input Vars:           1000
Display Errors:           N/A
PHP Arg Separator:        &

-- PHP Extensions

cURL:                     Supported
fsockopen:                Supported
SOAP Client:              Installed
Suhosin:                  Not Installed

-- Session Configuration

EDD Use Sessions:         Enabled
Session:                  Disabled

### End System Info ###

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