Hello Jason,

I found the issue – some of the new videos would not cast properly as the Vimeo videos were loading a bit differently for desktop Chrome than for the Android with Chrome.

Please deactivate and delete the FV Player Pro plugin you are using, then hit “Install Pro extension” at the top of the wp-admin -> FV Player -> Settings screen.


Then switch to the Beta release using the steps from here if you are not already using it: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta


That will give you the FV Player Pro plugin with the fix.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Jason,

I tried that video and it worked. I noticed that sometimes when I do a lot of testing with Chromecast the icon might not appear. So I close the browser and re-open it and the icon appears. But in this case it was there from the beginning.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Tobias,

thank you for the example, however that website uses different video files – one for each tuning. You can also notice that the color of the accordion changes based on the tuning. I checked this on the Andachtsjodler lesson.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Girish,

if you use URL tokens for HLS streams, please enable Stream Loader. Please refer to this guide: https://foliovision.com/player/video-security/video-protection-methods/signed-urls-hls-protection

For easy drag&drop video encoding and encryption we recommend using FV Player Coconut: https://foliovision.com/player/video-security/encoding/encrypted-hls-coconut

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Jason,

the issue is that these new videos do not have MP4 versions available.

The HLS streams do not play with standard Chromecast receiver as they use a separate video and audio stream. So we need to provide a custom Chromecast receiver.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andy,

please reinstall FV Player from this link: http://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip

Then please deactivate and delete the FV Player Pro plugin you are using, then hit “Install Pro extension” at the top of the wp-admin -> FV Player -> Settings screen.


Then switch to the Beta release using the steps from here if you are not already using it: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta


That will give you the FV Player Pro plugin with the fix.

Please let us know if it fixes the issue for you.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Abdikani,

please try again, it will work now.

I check https://foliovision.com/my-licenses and saw that you entered the domain name with https:// and somehow it did not parse the domain name properly. It worked well when I tried to use full https://nuuraani.com

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Michael,

the subtitle menu is also created on the ready event, so it’s probably too late. Try moving your code to the load event and it might just work.

Other than that I’m not sure why not simply provide the subtitles configuration in the load() call. I added a code sample to https://foliovision.com/player/developers/api-programming#js-usage -> “Here’s the code if you also need subtitles:”

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andy,

I can confirm it’s a bug. We will get it fixed.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andy,

I think I got it – Gutenberg somehow triggers the edit event when the element leaves the viewport. This would trigger reloading of the FV Player preview when scrolling on the edit page, although in my case it wouldn’t jump up and down just a little bit.

Could you please reinstall FV Player from this link? http://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip Then the issue should be fixed.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andy,

so far no luck with reproducing this issue. I tried to use 22 chapters in a video.

I see what you mean about the Gutenberg blocl refreshing though.

Could you please reinstall FV Player from this link? http://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip

It should fix your issue.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello,

last week we did some fixes with the MPEG-DASH loading, please let us know if you noticed any improvement on your website as well. You were getting a different error, but perhaps it’s related.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Foone,

FV Player Pro has the “Default Skip Time” setting where you can set when the ad should be skipable if it’s above certain length:

[ 5 ] Enter the number of seconds after which an ad can be skipped if longer than
[ 10 ] seconds.

The above is the default and it ensures that ads below 10 second length get no Skip button, just the count-down. Perhaps that answers your question of how to hide the Skip button.

But at the same time ads longer than 10 seconds will get the Skip button.

Do you really need a different skip time for each ad? Please let us know.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andy,

we are currently working on the new FV Player editor which will present the video duration in a better way. With that you would notice that the video duration somehow does not match.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gordon,

please let us know what exact code you are using.

I checked the “Anchor text with Ligtbox” and “Using Lightbox without FV Player shortcodes” examples of https://foliovision.com/player/features/playback/using-lightbox#anchor-text-with-lightbox and it all worked.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andy,

thank you for providing all the details!

The duration of your video is 1219 seconds, which is 20:19, as shown in your screenshot. So any chapters which are past that time are not going to show as they would lead nowhere.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Turbokingspoker,

regarding the first GIF – I see that we do not reset the status of the RCP membership picker properly. It’s fixed now, please grab a fresh copy of FV Player Pay Per Vie ZIP file from https://foliovision.com/my-licenses and reinstall from that

I see that with a bug like this it would be very hard to edit anything. So perhaps you thought the membership restrictions are all set while they were in place from your previous edit.

Would you like to apply the same RCP Membership Level IDs for all the players in your database? If you, you can use SQL like this, please just make sure you backup your database and change 1,2 to your actual membership IDs:

DELETE FROM wp_fv_player_playermeta WHERE meta_key = 'rcp_levels' AND meta_value = '';

INSERT INTO `wp_fv_player_playermeta` ( `id_player`, `meta_key`, `meta_value`)
select id, 'rcp_levels', '1,2' FROM wp_fv_player_players WHERE id NOT IN (
  SELECT id_player FROM wp_fv_player_playermeta WHERE meta_key = 'rcp_levels'
);

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Turbokingspoker,

what’s strange is that when you reinstalled FV Player Pay Per View you did not get that “RCP Membership Level IDs” debug message. You only got it after reloading the page.

That suggests to me the issue is with page caching. A WordPress caching plugin or your web host page cache might be interfering with the membership functions of your website.

Are you able to reproduce the behavior where you do not get the access to the video, but you can see “RCP Membership Level IDs” in debug?

Our paid support is available here: https://foliovision.com/pro-support We would require a WordPress admin access, FTP access and access for a test member to use for the testing.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Turbokingspoker,

I checked the video.

You said that a user with RCP membership would get the Pay Per View buttons even though the video was associated with the RCP membership level which he purchased. So he should have access to the video.

However if you then open the player in the editor, the issue goes away. But then it does come back the next day or so.

On one occasion you also noticed that the RCP memberships set for the player would disappear from its configuration.

I’m sorry to hear about such issues, it’s certainly not what you should be experiencing with FV Player.

I was not able to replicate these issues, I don’t see how this could be happening at all. It seems like some database error.

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As a first troubleshooting step please get a fresh FV Player Pay Per View ZIP file from https://foliovision.com/my-licenses and reinstall from that.

Then enable wp-admin -> Settings -> FV Player PPV -> Debug. Then find another video for which your test member gets the Pay Per View buttons, add ?fvppv_debug to the link in the browser location bar and open it again. Then open the page source HTML code and look for lines with <!--fvppv_debug msg:

If the player is restricted for certain RCP memberships, then there should be a log message like this:

RCP Membership Level IDs ‘1,2’

Then is the user has the access to that membership there will be:

User has the required RCP Membership Level ‘2’

If the post is too old and is restricted by Restrict Past Content RCP addon you will see:

However rcp_membership_can_access filter restricts the access

But there might be some weird issue or that message might not come at all. In that case you might just see:

No EDD nor RCP restriction found

If that’s the case then please try to export the player by using wp-admin -> FV Player -> however over the player row and click “Export”. Will you be able to find the rcp_levels part if in? Something like this:

{“ab”:””,”ad”:””,”ad_height”:””,”ad_width”:””,”ad_skip”:””,”align”:””,”autoplay”:””,”controlbar”:””,”copy_text”:””,”embed”:””,”end_actions”:””,”end_action_value”:””,”height”:””,”hflip”:””,”lightbox”:””,”lightbox_caption”:””,”lightbox_height”:””,”lightbox_width”:””,”player_name”:””,”player_slug”:””,”playlist”:””,”playlist_advance”:””,”qsel”:””,”share”:””,”share_title”:””,”share_url”:””,”speed”:””,”sticky”:””,”video_ads”:””,”video_ads_post”:””,”width”:””,”status”:”published”,”meta”:[{“meta_key”:”rcp_levels”,”meta_value”:”1,2″},{“meta_key”:”post_id”,”meta_value”:”147204″}],”videos”:[{…}]}

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Mark,

we provide that “Load FV Flowplayer JS everywhere” setting for special integrations of FV Player. Adding another setting to it of which libraries should load is technically possible, but it would make it so much harder to use.

You said the only plugin which uses Ajax for your website front-end is WP ULike (we use it on some websites too) so please try to disable “Load FV Flowplayer JS everywhere” and test your website videos to see if anything breaks.

Or do remember enabling that setting for some page builder?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello,

if you uncheck “Advanced Vimeo embedding” when you get the basic Vimeo iframe, so then the FV Player features are gone.

I’m sorry you are still facing these playback issues. This fix is taking us way too long and we are running out of options. At this point I no longer see what we could improve in the code, or least not yet.

Could you please share the FTP or control panel access for your WordPress website? That way we can put in more debug code and finally figure out what causing the issue on your website.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Wesley,

are you using anything to optimize the JavaScript on your website? I wonder if something like Cloudflare Rocket Loader could cause an issue like this.

If not, then please post a link to a test page where we can see the issue and what browser we should use on what operating system.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Mark,

we only load YouTube if it’s used in FV Player on the page.

It seems you are using Settings -> FV Player -> Compatibility/Integrations -> “Load FV Flowplayer JS everywhere”. Are you loading posts with Ajax anywhere on the website?

If there is a YouTube video then a small part of the YouTube script (55kB) is loaded on page load, but it’s done in a non-blocking way. But I see the web browser does show that the page is still loading.

So we adjusted it a bit to not show the loading indicator on the tab if the YouTube API is slow to load initially.

To be able to test this improvement please reinstall FV Player from this link: http://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip

Finally clicking the video to play loads the bulk of the YouTube player (about 800 kB) and once it’s loaded it plays.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello James,

we found we can actually do something about it – we can remove these conflicting CSS rules when entering fullscreen and put it back when leaving fullscreen.

If you are interested you can reinstall FV Player from this link: http://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player plugin you are using. WordPress will warn you that you might loose settings and data, but it’s not the case with our plugin, no settings now videos will be lost. Or you can just replace the plugin files via FTP.

That way the fullscreen for YouTube videos should work for you on iPhone.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello JPH,

1. the first code snippet is in HTML to warn logged in administrators about broken JavaScript. We put this in many years ago as some users complained about FV Player not working for them but in vast majority of the cases the issue was with their websites – where JavaScript wouldn’t run at all.

So normal website visitors do not get that.

2. The second case are the player warnings which we show to the normal website visitors as well. But we only do that in very specific cases, like if the user plays a video with a deprecated device (in this case Android before version 4).

Since that warning is 5 years old now (that’s when Android 2.x was still used and when websites started to drop old TLS protocol for SSL) I just removed the foliovision.com link from it. Next FV Player version will no longer have it.

If you need it right now then please reinstall FV Player from this link: http://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player plugin you are using. WordPress will warn you that you might loose settings and data, but it’s not the case with our plugin, no settings now videos will be lost. Or you can just replace the plugin files via FTP.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello fobraynes,

I see that if you use the FV Player block in Gutenberg the preview does not respect the lightbox flag.

Since you are using just the bare shortcode:

[fvplayer src="..."]

You could be using the shortcode block instead and avoid the preview that way.

On our end we could be improving the preview to actually show the lightbox link only. We avoid that for FV Player Editor, but in this case it makes sense.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello fobraynes,

could you please reinstall FV Player from this link? http://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player plugin you are using. WordPress will warn you that you might loose settings and data, but it’s not the case with our plugin, no settings now videos will be lost. Or you can just replace the plugin files via FTP.

Then the lightbox will be sized properly.

Maria’s suggestion was to use the 1280 x 720 size in the global FV Player settings. That would solve the issue for you as well.

We would like to remove that setting completely. Please let us know what did you try to achieve by using 80%. We think the player should always fit to the available width. That change will probably come with FV Player 8.

I also noticed that you page has Presto Player with YouTube on it. Unfortunately the YouTube API fails to play the video if there are two players on the same page. Presto Player loads the YouTube API before FV Player does, so then FV Player cannot play YouTube video. FV Player only loads YouTube scripts when the playback is started – causing less issues with Google PageSpeed score.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Lartigue,

I checked the links you sent 6 days ago, but they seem to work fine.

Are you only running into the problem when you are logged in? Please please open your browser developer console (here’s how https://foliovision.com/player/troubleshooting/javascript-browser-console), then reload the page with video and see what comes up on the console.

Sometimes a fatal error in JavaScript stops every other JavaScript from executing (all of it, not just FV Player). I would like to see what it’s like in your case, perhaps we can find a way of making FV Player more resilient.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Taco,

it seems you only have to change https://cloudflarestream.com/e1341f30016a82f3796b813ea07682f3/manifest/video.mpd to https://cloudflarestream.com/e1341f30016a82f3796b813ea07682f3/manifest/video.m3u8

So the video.mpd part becomes video.m3u8.

If that’s the case and you can check this on couple of videos you can replace these two phrases using FV Player Migration Wizard: https://foliovision.com/player/tools/migration-wizard

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Taco,

we tested the video with:

• Firefox on macOS – no issues
• Brave (Chrome) on macOS – no issues
• Chrome on Android – no issues
• Safari on iPhone – this one won’t play, the MPEG-DASH is not supported by iOS operating system of iPhone

And finally in Safari (15.5) on macOS (11.6.1). The video would not finish loading. The video wouldn’t play on Safari on iPad either. Other MPEG-DASH videos played, I found not big difference in the encoding.

But suddenly I noticed the video plays if the player is smaller than 480 pixels width. And then it would just play no matter what player size I used. So it’s a strange issue which comes and goes.

Howeve I tried to upgrade the Dash.js library in FV Player (required for MPEG-DASH playback) and then it started to play on iPad. So that should make the Safari playback stable too.

If you could try with the new fixed version, it would be great. You can reinstall FV Player from this link: http://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player plugin you are using. WordPress will warn you that you might loose settings and data, but it’s not the case with our plugin, no settings now videos will be lost. Or you can just replace the plugin files via FTP.

I would suggest you to use the HLS streaming format from Cloudflare Stream instead as with FV Player HLS will work on all the desktop computers, Android, iPad and also on iPhone.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello commerz81,

please let us know if using that “DVR stream” checkbox with FV Player 7.5.29 helped or not.

I did not experience issues with Chromecast on live streams, you can try here: https://foliovision.com/player/demos/hls-stream -> Live Stream

Please try posting a bare MP4 file such as https://cdn.foliovision.com/video/foliovision.mp4 and see if you can Chromecast that.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Renato,

please upgrade to FV Player Pro 7.5.29 and let us know if that won’t fix the issue. There was a problem with the DRM text when using Firefox which lead to the issue you were describing.

We are always trying to make our DRM text more resilient, so it goes through some changes even if it looks the same.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Eswanzey,

FV Player includes the AWS SDK for PHP to be able to list the content of Amazon S3 buckets. It’s the biggest component of FV Player.

Recently AWS developers improved the AWS SDK to let other developers only include parts which are needed. That allowed us to drop different parts of AWS SDK and lower the overall size of FV Player.

I’m sorry to hear that it caused some issue on your website. Unfortunately that console message is not related to FV Player and we need more information to fix this.

Please try to browse your AWS S3 bucket in FV Player again and then check if anything new appeared in the PHP error log. If you are not sure about how to check the PHP error log, the server technical support should be able to give you a hand.

Or you can install this plugin which makes a list of these errors available in wp-admin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/error-log-monitor/

Then try to browse your AWS S3 bucket in FV Player once again and the error should be recorded in these logs.

You can also go back to FV Player 7.5.26 and see if the issue occurs with that version too: https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.7.5.26.7210.zip

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Paulc,

it seems certain files can be excluded from the “Lock and Protect System Folders” rule of SiteGround Security plugin.

Could you please reinstall FV Player from this link? http://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player plugin you are using. WordPress will warn you that you might loose settings and data, but it’s not the case with our plugin, no settings now videos will be lost. Or you can just replace the plugin files via FTP.

Then disable the SiteGround Security plugin setting “Lock and Protect System Folders” and enabled it again. Then these tracking request will be allowed.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Lartigue,

I see we are using some code which no longer works with the jQuery version in latest WordPress. We haven’t noticed this as this code is not run at all times, only when scroll autoplay is on.

Please deactivate and delete the FV Player Pro plugin you are using, then hit “Install Pro extension” at the top of the wp-admin -> Settings -> FV Player screen.

That will reinstall the Pro plugin and will give you the fixed version.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Paulc,

it seems you are using defer for all JavaScript on your page except for plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/flowplayer/modules/flowplayer.min.js. Please apply the same defer on it and it will load properly.

Your video won’t play though as you use page cache (there is a x-proxy-cache header). The Amazon S3 signed URLs are time-sensitive, please checks the instructions for cache plugins here: https://foliovision.com/player/video-hosting/amazon-s3-guide#bucket-protection-in-fvplayer-settings

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Suportepercurso,

please let us know how it looks like in wp-admin -> Tools -> Log HTTP Requests. Are you able to see any failed requests there? You might need to go back a couple of pages as this issue might be occurring randomly. Perhaps it all works for 8 hours, but then there are 15 minutes when it really does not work.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Lartigue,

please use the Scroll Autoplay feature: https://foliovision.com/player/features/playback/autoplay#autoplayWhenScrollingDown

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Lartigue,

I checked with that same Chrome version on macOS 11.6.1 and the videos just play even on first page visit.

No issues on iPhone with iOS 15.6.1 with Google Chrome either.

Are you running into the same issue if you try in Incognito browser (not logged in)?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Francesco,

I can see the FV Player scripts are still using WP Rocket Lazy Load for scripts. Previously I recommended to disable WP Rocket -> File Optimization -> “Load JavaScript deferred” by mistake, please try to disable “Delay JavaScript execution” instead.

With that setting enabled user has to interact with the page for the scripts to load. On desktop it includes hovering the page with mouse.

The weird part is that if I hover the browser window and FV Player scripts load it still takes 4 more seconds for FV Player to start running its scripts.

Disabling that “Delay JavaScript execution” should ensure the player loads right away, if that works perhaps you can exclude FV Player from it and optionally use wp-admin -> FV Player -> Integration/Compatibility -> “Optimize FV Flowplayer JS loading” instead.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Francesco,

please deactivate and delete the FV Player Pro plugin you are using, then hit “Install Pro extension” at the top of the wp-admin -> Settings -> FV Player screen.

That will reinstall the Pro plugin and will give you the fixed version.

I noticed you are not using the latest version, we should check that with you as one of the first things.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Francesco,

unfortunately even that new link shows a login form.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Girish,

I found that because the stream URL ends with ?DVR it’s not properly handed by FV Player Editor and then you do not get the Live and DVR checkboxes.

Please try to post it like this:

[fvplayer src="..." live="true" dvr="true"]

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Francesco,

sometimes too many optimizations can only cause issues.

How does it work if you disable the WP Rocket -> File Optimization -> “Load JavaScript deferred” setting? We were using that on foliovision.com at some point and we still use it on some other websites and it works well with FV Player.

Please see if disabling wp-admin -> FV Player -> Integration/Compatibility -> “Optimize FV Flowplayer JS loading” will fix the issue. That is our own optimized JavaScript loading routine, but it seems to be missing in your page HTML, perhaps something is removing it (no mention of FV_Player_JS_Loader in your HTML).

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Suportepercurso,

this is taking too long to resolve and we haven’t found into such long lasting issues with out Vimeo integration before.

Could you please setup a test page where we can see the issue?

Did you also install the Log HTTP Requests plugin?

The log file at https://www.detonline.com.br/fv-player-vimeo-….log is no longer helpful, please disable wp-admin -> FV Player -> Pro Features -> Debug -> Verbose and remove that file – you should be able to do so using the file manager on your web hosting control panel, or using FTP.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bruno,

the plugin which removes the custom ads or VAST ads for FV Player based on user role can be purchased here: https://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-player-no-ads-for-members

It works with WooCommerce Memberships and others will be added on request.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Meir,

it appears the links which you are using are not for the actual video files but it’s the iframe embed URL.

Are you able to get the actual streaming URL out of Cloudflare Stream?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Girish,

please deactivate and delete the FV Player Pro plugin you are using, then hit “Install Pro extension” at the top of the wp-admin -> Settings -> FV Player screen.

That will reinstall the Pro plugin and will give you the fixed version.

Please let us know if you still run into any issue. I’m not sure if this will fix your issue when you are logged in Firefox – if not we will need that browser console output.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Meir,

would this put videos found in multiple posts (CPTs) into a single FV Player playlist? Would it be important to retain some sort of a link to the original video location, the post URL?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Hammerway,

I guess you are using HLS (m3u8 file extension) for your videos and you create is using FV Player Coconut.

HLS is the native video format for iPhone and it handles the video quality switching in an automated way (ABR – adaptive bitrate).

The only way of providing a list of video qualities for the viewers would be to split the HLS video into multiple streams – one for each quality and build custom loading routine. It would be a fairly big project.

Thanks,
Martin