Hello JP,

I can confirm https://thedigitalinformer.com/community-news-brief-01-07-20/fvp-6/ shows the right content.

Please let us know what you did to fix the issue, if you have a minute.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello hentaipulse,

I did had a quick look. The first video played for me both on Firefox and Chrome on Windows 7. What operating system are you using? I wonder if Chrome has some difficulties with some MP4 files on some OS. Then our video checker should be warning you about that.

The second video didn’t play as the SSL certificate on the 3rd party website where it’s loading from is incorrect. Or there might be no SSL on it, if you just changed the link to https:// and the site actually doesn’t have SSL enabled.

I would recommend you use some reliable CDN for your videos, as linking to other websites can cause issues.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello William,

we tried to add some code to detect WPMobile app user agent iOS or Android. Please reinstall FV Player from https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/2263-wechat-204-wpmobile-app.zip and let us know if it helped.

To reinstall the plugin 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.

If you run into any issues, just put back FV Player from WordPress.org.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello William,

is that the full user agent string of the WPMobile app? You can confirm that here: https://whatsmyua.info/

If that’s it, we could be checking what it reports on https://foliovision.com/html/flowplayer-support.html and see if we can detect it properly. Perhaps we only need to detect it as Android running Chrome, with HTML5 video and fullscreen capability along with muted autoplay and that’s it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Tio,

we will include this improvement in the next release.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello William,

Flowplayer uses the user agent string to determine some of the device capabilities.

I tried to the debug page https://foliovision.com/html/flowplayer-support.html with that user agent and I could see it wouldn’t detect it properly.

Is it possible to include the original Android version number in that user agent string? Normally Android gives something like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; Pixel 2 XL Build/OPD1.170816.004) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Mobile Safari/537.36

So ideally WPMobile would provide:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; Pixel 2 XL Build/OPD1.170816.004) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Mobile Safari/537.36 WPMobile.App

Or at least:

WPMobile.App – Android 8.0.0

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Tio,

this has been fixed, please reinstall from https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/11248518-embed-item-position-module-rework.zip again and the issue will be fixed.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Daniele,

which exact call do you mean? We did remove the periodic storing of the video position, but we didn’t remove any event when doing so.

Are the video positions not storing properly for you?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello William,

you will have to give this question t o WPMobile developers:

How does it handle wp_enqueue_script()? What about wp_localize_script? Will a typical plugin which uses these calls in wp_footer work fine in the app?

That preview must be only a simple iframe which doesn’t behave the same as a real mobile device running the actual app would.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello fiweh4lf,

is the https://youtu.be/mRGsDv2VIFQ video posted as an individual FV Player instance? I mean if there is some [fvplayer id="19"] which shows that video only. Then you can use [fvplayer id="19,18"]

However if FV Player ID 19 is a playlist of videos and you would like to take a single video out of that, then we don’t have a solution for that right now.

I see something like [fvplayer videos="56,54,..."] could work, but then then you would have to name all the videos in FV Player ID 18 playlist. So a hybrid form like [fvplayer videos="56,playlist-18"] could technically work.

But overall it’s not a simple enhancement and I wonder how we could do this so that it would all make sense and not be hard to use.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello William,

did you just take these screenshots from your browser where you opened the mobile website provided by WP Mobile plugin? Do the videos play there?

I’m not sure how WP Mobile app works, but it can be something entirely different. Does that load the FV Player JavaScript files?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bonga,

having some working code is a good start, but it might not be as simple as it seems.

So we would be only able to do this as a custom programming job.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello William,

does your web app use the standard web view?

If so, do it load the FV Player JavaScript files?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Richard,

we do show that speaker icon if the video is muted.

So for example if you come to a video which is set to autoplay it’s likely that it will start muted, as modern browsers don’t permit audible autoplay – it’s been like that on mobile for a long time and then in Chrome and Safari on desktop computers as well.

So thanks to that well recognized icon it’s clear that the video is muted and user knows where to click to listen to it.

In you are using Chrome, you can click the head icon in the browser toolbar and pick Other People -> Guest and open https://foliovision.com/player/demos/autoplay in that new window. It’s a special browsing mode without any kind of history. It’s important to test in this mode as otherwise Chrome remembers where you played videos before and will allow audible autoplay on such websites.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello rhys,

are you sure that video is entirely public? Is it one of your uploads?

I see it works in Dissenter – that browser is sending invalid HTTP Referrer header. Bitchute is checking that header on that video, so if it’s loading from your website it won’t play as standard browsers do set HTTP Referrer properly.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Reginald,

just FV Player, Bitchute will probably by supported in the free plugin.

Hello rhys,

it’s strange, I can see that video won’t play. Does that video have sharing disabled?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Tio,

I can see it gives you the same video ID in that iframe embed code. We will do some more tests on our end.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Reginald,

we are fixing some last editing issues currently.

If you have a test site where you would like to test our new Bitchute integration, you can reinstall FV Player from this ZIP file: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/134-bitchute-support.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 you can use URL of Bitchute video like https://www.bitchute.com/video/xFqd1XKX2fo/ with FV Player and it will use that video MP4 file along with the splash screen.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Tio,

it seem you updated FV Player, but you will have to stick to https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/11248518-embed-item-position-module-rework.zip version to be able to test that out.

None of the videos on https://www.tromsite.com/videos/ play for me. They seem to load for too long.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello CXL,

the issue with PHP static analysis is that we would have to rewrite our classes to use autoload. Besides that I don’t think it would catch an issue like this, as it uses the WordPress filters API.

The WordPress filters are not such a great idea when you develop your own plugin after all. If we would use PHP classes instead and extend them, this would be easier to test with PHPUnit too.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Edward,

FV Player Pro 7.4.15.727.beta is out and it fixes this issue. You will have to use the Beta version to get this fix, here’s how to get it: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta

Thanks,
Martin

Hello CXL,

FV Player and FV Player Pro 7.4.14.727 were released. They use a simpler code around these automated splash images for Vimeo and YouTube images which will get rid of your warning. That edge case under which it was appearing should also no longer occur. It was not using a proper variable to pass the video source URL, but a full object which was hard to manage and there was no reason for it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Luca,

modern browsers really discourage using Flash and you have to allow it by hand in order to use it.

You should be using some streaming service to convert your RTMP stream to HLS. Most of them can take RTMP input, like for example DaCast: https://www.dacast.com/support/knowledgebase/intro-to-live-streaming-a-step-by-step-walkthrough/

Thanks,
Martin

Hello dplum,

we need to make it part of our licensing scheme and then we will publish some announcement about it.

Thanks,
Martin

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