Hello Tio,

this got stuck in our pipeline. I was just supposed to test it and release.

So now I put up the new test version of our plugin here and it works: https://foliovision.com/player/demos/playlist-styles

I pick any playlist, play any video and when I copy the embed link I get something like:

<iframe src="https://foliovision.com/player/demos/playlist-styles/fvp-5#fvp_39" allowfullscreen  width="790" height="1271" frameborder="0" style="max-width:100%"></iframe>

Then if I embed that somewhere else, it show that full playlist, but goes to the item I selected right away.

If it works, then you can reinstall FV Player from this link to be able to test this improvement on your website: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/11213823-fix-player-embed-settings.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 Bruno,

of course it’s iOS, I’m not sure why I haven’t realized that as it’s clearly visible in the video.

I see the issue occurs on iPhone with iOS 13 (Chrome, Safari, …). On iPad it works, but while iPad does support HTML5 fullscreen, iPhone doesn’t. Safari on iOS 13 on iPad is so much more powerful, it even has the same user agent as Safari on desktop.

That’s why most players use the native fullscreen mode on iPhone – including WordPress video player or Video.js.

In FV Player we use an CSS fullscreen mode for iPhones. That lets us put custom subtitles or ads on top of the video. But the downside is that the theme CSS can break it if it uses z-index for parent elements – which is exactly your case. Most websites don’t have this issue.

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Please enable Settings -> FV Player -> Mobile Settings -> “Alternative iOS fullscreen mode” and see if your VAST ads still work.

As a second option enable Settings -> FV Player -> Mobile Settings -> “Use native fullscreen on mobile” and again, see if your VAST ads still play.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Edward,

they say it’s outside of they control and asked me to setup another serve and see if you can access that one. Please see if this page opens for you: https://api-eu.foliovision.com/

You should see just “No default action.”

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Calvin,

FV Player Pro Beta 7.4.13.727 is out and it fixes thase bad AWS S3 signatures for different video qualities with MP4.

If you don’t see the update available, please make sure you are on the Beta version: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta

If your WordPress didn’t find the update yet, you can download it by hand from https://foliovision.com/my-licenses

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Edward,

the goal is to suppress any leading “00:”. There should be no “00:” for the first 59 minutes of the chapter time.

I see that it doesn’t work properly, we will get it fixed.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bruno,

FV Player VAST 7.4.10.727 is out and it improves that issue with fullscreen button not working at the start of video when using AdBlock.

Please let us know if you are still having issues in your Firefox.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Stuart,

thank you for posting back your finding!

We will work on detecting interlaced videos in video checker.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Kendell,

no, all the time values in FV Player are in seconds. If you need to let your user input time values in a h:m:s format then make sure you convert that to seconds.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Maciej and Reginald,

please enable Title field in Settings -> FV Player -> Post Interface Options. Then you will be able to edit it.

I see that adding that redundant playlist name field (if it’s not playlist, it shouldn’t be there in the first place) did lead to some unintended use of that feature.

Did you mainly use that to just label the players clearly in admin interface? I see that if you put in the title it shows in front end too.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Stuart,

I was trying to compare different videos which have Moov above 1 MB and found they play on iOS without issues.

So then I was looking at the videos which use the avc1 format along with Moov above 1 MB, but they played too.

As the last attempt I was looking for some video in the avc1 format, with Moov above 1 MB and in 50 fps. But I was not able to find any.

It seems you came up with that 50 fps issue too, so perhaps that’s it and we should detect 50i videos and warn about them.

I also updated iOS from 13.1 to 13.3, but it didn’t help.

For FV Player Coconut we are trying to incorporate a setup wizard. We found a combination of affordable storage and a reasonably priced CDN to play along with all of it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bruno,

please try on https://foliovision.com/player/demos/vast-ads

I improved the way of how we detect AdBlock on iOS. Although I see there is a slight glitch where you can’t enter the fullscreen mode if you hit the button right after the video stars playing, so I’ll improve that.

I also installed a fresh Firefox on iPad with iOS 13 (.1.3) and the VAST ads in it are working just fine. So I’m not sure what blocking it on your end. Perhaps you have some app installed for that? Let us know what you use.

You can already get a new version from https://foliovision.com/my-licenses to get this improvement as I haven’t pushed a new version yet.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bruno,

no issues on iOS 13.1.3 with Safari.

But once I installed Ad Block I could see the issue. I found that the AdBlocker works differently on that device, so we will get it fixed there.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Richard,

please let us know what you use to host your videos and what is the video type. Does it use some video download protection?

Please also report the video using the video checker and let us know: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/how-to-use-video-checker

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bruno,

when using Chrome mobile I actually got an ad loaded, but it wouldn’t play. Then after reload there was no ad anymore, but the main video wouldn’t play still.

I tried to play the video MP4 file directly from /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/S…-b….-o…-h…-c…-.mp4 but it wouldn’t play for me either. Please use our video checker to make sure the video encoding doesn’t have any issues: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/how-to-use-video-checker

Also, Chrome on Android doesn’t have AdBlock available.

When using Firefox, it worked fine, the fullscreen button. But I got the “Video not properly encoded” when trying to play the video.

But perhaps it’s because I’m using Android 5 on my phone still.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Kendell,

you can use the progress event. I added a code sample to our guide: https://foliovision.com/player/advanced/api-programming#js-events -> “Here is a sample on how to pause a video if it goes to 10th second”

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Reginald,

we might be able to finish this before the end of this month.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello TomHanks44,

we don’t do it for the subscribers as we have websites with thousands of these. So it would result in a lot of clutter in the database.

I tried to adjust it so that it works for bbPress Moderators too. Please reinstall the plugin from this link and see if that works: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-clone-screen-options/archive/master.zip

To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player plugin you are using. WordPress might 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 Bruno,

FV Player VAST 7.4.9.727 is out and it fixes the issue – now AdBlock doesn’t break anything.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Edward,

we don’t do anything to block any IP address.

So are you saying your browser was not able to connect at all? Could you please share your IP address with us?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Philip,

FV Player Pro 7.4.12.727.beta is out and it fixes the issue.

Unless you are using any of the latest features it’s better to stick to the Release version. There is a “FV Player Pro: You are currently using the beta release which gives you the following beta improvements:” note in Settings -> FV Player Pro screen which gives you an idea about what the Beta is about, although I see it doesn’t mention these changes to video ad skip button, so I’ll fix that.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Philip,

I see the issue appears if the “Default ad skip time” is set to the same time as “Enter the number of seconds after which an ad can be skipped if longer than seconds.”

You are setting both to 15, so for a really quick workaround you can set it to 14 and 15 and we will work on the fix in the meantime.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Rosemary,

please check with the Events Calendar developers to see if they use the standard Screen Options or custom post types. Do they stick to what WordPress provides, or do they do something custom about it?

Our plugin clones the usermeta values stored under the following keys: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-clone-screen-options/blob/master/fv-screen-options.php#L32-L37

Notice how that tried to run it for all the registered post types: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-clone-screen-options/blob/master/fv-screen-options.php#L24

If you send that to Event Calendar developers, they should be able to make some suggestion. Either they are doing something non-standard or maybe they are registering their custom post type too late. We run the clone process on admin_init action with priority of 10.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Richard,

Could you please reinstall FV Thoughtful Comments from this link? https://github.com/foliovision/thoughtful-comments/archive/master.zip

To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current 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 will be lost. Or you can replace the plugin files via FTP.

It will get rid of these warnings. It’s due to a change in WordPress 5.3.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Pádraig,

thank you for the bug report. We have prepared it for the next release.

If you want it now you can just reinstall FV Player from this file: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/master.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.

The issue was that we wanted to make sure the fullscreen exit button is visible during the video loading to make it possible to exit the playback even before the video has finished loading. For example the video might just be loading for too long, or it might end with an error and user needs to be able to exit.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bruno,

it works for me on Chrome and Firefox and even Safari (12.1.1) on mac OS 10.12.6.

Please let us know what browser on what operating system you are using. Also test the video on https://foliovision.com/

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Edward,

1) what video type are you using? If is an MP4 or HLS video, or YouTube?

2) Please open the page where you video should be and then open the source code. In Chrome it’s View -> Developer -> View Source, in Firefox it’s Tools -> Web Developer -> Page Source.

You will get a new browser tab full of HTML code. Please use the Find feature (in Chrome it’s Edit -> Find -> Find…, in Firefox it’s Edit -> Find in This Page) to look for “video_checker” (without the quotes). Do you get any results?

3) Using the same Find feature, look for “video-checker.js” (without the quotes). Do you get any results?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Nicola,

this is fixed i FV Player Pro 7.4.10.727.beta which was released now.

Please note that the FV Player Pro has to be switched to Beta, here’s how it’s done: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta If you don’t see that update being available, you have to switch to beta first.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Edward,

yes, I would like to do a new release tomorrow.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Amir,

please try with a default WordPress theme. You can use the WordPress theme preview function, it’s quite good for this kind of tasks.

Do you see the same issue even if you seek in the video? Or does it only appear when the page is still loading?

You should be checking using the browser developer tools to see what is moving the div class=”fp-preload” element.

If you want to solve this quickly, we are happy to help you right on your website, just order our Making FV Player work with your theme service.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andrew,

could you please share your access token with us (we won’t publish it and you can use a service like https://revealit.me too) so we can check?

But we still should rework FV Player Pro to work with OAuth and let you reauthenticate that way and get rid of the warning once and for all.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Egbert,

we have prepared this fix for the next release.

Could you please grab a fresh copy of the plugin from https://foliovision.com/my-licenses and put it up on your website to see if it really works the way it should?

To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player VAST 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 Daniel,

I would like to test this on Windows, perhaps the issue only occurs there.

Please provide a simple page where we can see the issue or a ID of your Vimeo video.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Amir,

the issue is with the js-cookie library which FV Player bundles in the JavaScript file. I’m not sure why it wasn’t a problem until the 7.4.0.727 release, but we did change the way we minify our JavaScript files in that release.

So we will probably make sure that file is only loaded when it’s needed – if the FV Player playback position saving is enabled AND the user is not logged in AND the user’s web browser is not supporting localStorage. It’s really only needed for a small fraction of users.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Neil,

to conclude this forum thread – we found a bug in the base Flowplayer library where the playlist menu was indeed clickable on mobile even when it was not visible.

The fix was applied to your website and will be in the next FV Player version as well.

Also, if you don’t want the playlist menu to show at all you can use the CSS tweak which we added into our guide: https://foliovision.com/player/advanced/css-tips-and-fixes#hide-item-button

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Tucker,

the video on https://www.ncwlife.com/ncwlife-evening-news-november-11-2019/ worked for me on iPhone with iOS 12.4.3 without issues. The way it works is that the YouTube video requires another tap if it shows after a MP4 video ad.

We are also working on fixing that playlist menu which shouldn’t appear if there is a video ad.

The Video Checker checks the video encoding and YouTube is taking care of the video encoding automatically, so there is no point in checking it. But perhaps it would be good to know if the video is still there for example.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Ghostmk,

unfortunately due to open nature of HTML5 the video URL will always be traceable.

We could potentially hide the m3u8 file for HLS streams, but we would still have to keep it there for iOS users. Although now that iOS 13 supports Media Source Extensions a lot more might be possible in the future.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Daniel,

are you able to reproduce the issue using the Vimeo player? Perhaps there is a problem with one of the video qualities – it might be the 540p quality, so if you switch to that in Vimeo player you might get the same issue.

Otherwise we might be missing something in the MPEG-DASH parsing.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Daniel,

is the JavaScript console output not enough?

are you creating that VTT chapters file based on the loop points which you get using the FV Player Pro AB loop feature? Please let us know, perhaps we can improve your workflow by letting you add these chapters in the FV Player Editor without need for any VTT file.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello turbokingspoker,

make sure you clear your WordPress cache. Here is a link which opens your page without CSS optimization and the controlbar works there: https://turbokingspoker.com/zzz-video-128/?test=1

I’m glad we are not far from fixing this now, I just need to test different edge cases – better think about automating that part too.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello reza,

what code do you put in to show your form and have it processed properly? Is it HTML code? Would something like this help?

<input type="hidden" name="post_title" value="%post_title%" />

Perhaps we could provide such replacement tags. Although I would prefer if FV Player could just work well out of the box with some good form processor plugin.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello tbtnoas,

we are currently concentrating on a easier workflow for encrypted HLS streams. Once you upload the video to your video hosting (S3 or Digital Ocean Spaces) it should be a 1 click action to encrypt it.

With Cloudflare Workers you can potentially add URL tokens, but it’s a part of the Cloudflare Business plan too. Another thing it can do is to fetch files from private video CDNs, such as Backblaze – you already sent a link for that.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andrew,

1) Could you please try to reproduce the same bug on some other website? Best if you can get a fresh new site.

2) Does it work if you only post a simple MP4 video and deactivate FV Player Pro for a moment?

3) Are you aware of any specific wpDiscuz setting that might be triggering this issue?

We can provide further troubleshooting steps, or we can fix the issue for your right on your website, or provide guidance for the wpDiscuz team if the issue is on their end if you order our Pro support: https://foliovision.com/pro-support

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andrew,

we haven’t heard of an issue like this before. Does it work if you post a playlist of the https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/fv-player-unprotected/dominika-960-31_HD.mp4 video and then one of your Vimeo videos?

Please let us also know what browser you use.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bill,

we have worked on the fix and it works well for us.

Could you please reinstall FV Player from this link to see if it all works for you as well? https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/master.zip

Then also grab a new copy of FV Player Pro from https://foliovision.com/my-licenses and also switch it to beta (how to).

To be able to reinstall a plugin you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player and FV Player Pro plugins 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 you will be able to enable the Settings -> FV Player -> Sidewide Flowplayer Defaults -> Force HD Playback setting.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bill,

I see you are using Settings -> FV Player Pro -> Hosting -> Vimeo (Pro) -> Disable MPEG-DASH.

We are working on a new setting which will force the videos to play in HD, unless user selects a lower quality by hand. Some website require the videos to load instantly, while other require top video quality, so it’s making sense to have such setting.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Chris,

that’s strange, but you can still scroll down the settings page a bit and hit any of the “Save All Changes” buttons.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Sideeque,

1) Perhaps you can figure out what was the CSS change which caused the issuewith your theme. We didn’t had anybody else report this issue yet. It’s true that there was a change in player HTML code – we now use proper image tags for splash screens – the advantage is that we can support image lazy loading that way.

2) Hopefully it works for you, if not, it would require a deeper look. Perhaps it’s simple enough and we could cover that in that “Making FV Player work with your theme” job I was mentioning.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Sideeque,

1) Video player play icon – I see your theme is adding in some custom play icon. We are happy to fix this issue on your website if you order or Making FV Player work with your theme service.

2) I can see the modal window with Gravity Forms won’t load properly – it’s covered by FV Player lightbox. That’s because it’s trying to act clever and it also hooks onto the Colorbox markup. The reason for that is that Colorbox was the previous lightbox library in FV Player, so we wanted to retain backward compatibility that way.

I tried to fix this, you can reinstall FV Player from this link and clear your browser cache and see if it helped: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/master.zip To reinstall FV Player 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 Viet Anh,

I figured out how FV Player Pro could be slowing down your entire website – perhaps your web host is blocking access to Vimeo API (api.vimeo.com web host).

Please check Settings -> FV Player -> Hosting -> Vimeo (Pro) -> Access token. There should be a text like this:

Your Vimeo access token has been successfully verified (last check: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:30:16 +0000)

Can you see that text? If so, what is the date on it?

Perhaps if fails to check your Vimeo API key and then it tries to check it again and again forever – slowing every pageload. We only run the check in wp-admin and we only run the check once in 6 hours, but perhaps there is some issue in that part of code.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Reza,

I understand that, please let us know about what I asked before:

so does that work with our Settings -> FV Player -> Actions -> Custom Popups feature?

How does the form embed code look like? I’m trying to see if we could provide some general replacement tags which would make it possible for you to track the post title where the FV Player was showing the popup.

We need to see how your form integrates with FV Player.

Thanks,
Martin