Hello Murat,

thank you for the videos. Please try this CSS rule, it appears to me it’s all you need:


.flowplayer {
width: 100% !important;
}


We don’t recommend using !important, but let’s see if it gives you what you need.

We could make it possible to enter a value like 100% for the player size, but then it would have to be explained in the user interface and it might get a bit too messy.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Sergio,

FV Player 6.0.5.21 has been released and it disables the video element right click.

The contrast might be related to your graphics hardware settings. You can try to enable “Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering”: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2528233/how-to-enable-or-disable-software-rendering-in-internet-explorer

We are planning to increase the Vimeo video protection with an extra option which will make sure the Vimeo videos are never playing using the MP4 files, but always use HLS or MPEG-DASH streams. It will reduce the compatibility, but the benefit will be that these streams can’t be downloaded without advanced knowledge of how the streams work. We also want to obscure the Vimeo video IDs so that they can’t be checked in HTML source code.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Murat,

could you please let us know more about what it is you are trying to achieve?

FV Player normally fills the entire column width, if the size is bigger than the column, it doesn’t work that way with the height. It has to know the video size (or aspect ratio) and then it sizes the container based on that.

The problem is that the video size is unknown until is starts to play and that’s why both width and height has to be entered (and that’s why there is a global option for it).

We already scan the video length and we would like to add scanning for video size and splash screen size, so then that could be used instead.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Martin,

this fix will be part of the next FV Player release.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Darius,

thank you for the bug report about the lightbox, we will get it fixed.

I see what you mean about looping a section of video which was already played. Currently you have to click into it or before it for it to start looping. I’ll check with our team if your desired behaviour should be the new default.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Magentawave,

It should work fine even with setting of 1280×720.

FV Player uses the width and height to also calculate the aspect ratio of your video, so if you provide values which are bigger than the actual content element where you use FV Player it will size down to fit into it while keeping that aspect ratio.

We had some issue with a black line showing at the edge of the video in Google Chrome when the reduced size was not a decimal number, but it was fixed in FV Player 6.0.5.17.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Frank,

if you would like to fix this right on your website, we are happy to help, just order the Pro support here: http://foliovision.com/pro-support

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Russell,

I’m using Safari 9.1.3 on iOS 10.9.5 and it doesn’t open in a new tab for me.

Actually FV Player tries to open a new tab first and if it fails it then opens the link in the same window. So perhaps you allowed these popup for your site domain.

Perhaps there could be a preference if it should try to open new tab or always use the existing tag. We will discuss this in our team.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Luria,

unfortunately I was not able to reproduce this bug anymore. I opened and closed the lightbox multiple times, always resizing the browser window.

Are you using any browser extensions?

Are you noticing that the issue occurs when you change the windows size during the initial video load (when the three dots animation shows up)?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Amiremami,

yes, we will try to get rid of it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Amiremami,

that error triggers as the video URL is swapped during the loading. It doesn’t have any side effect on the video loading and the video plays properly.

However I see it would be better to find a way of removing that warning.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Luria,

sorry, I wasn’t able to get to this yet.

The lightbox dimensions can be altered in the shortcode, although we are thinking if that’s really needed – if the lightbox would tak something link around 90% of the screen it might simpler to use.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello James,

the bug was a special one, just saving the FV Player settings would solve it, so that explains why it’s working for you after you enabled the old interface. You can turn that off safely.

Sorry about that, we are working on improving our automated plugin testing, although this one will be a though one to test.

Please let us know in a new thread what lightbox issue you are having.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Kerry,

we are going to improve this workflow issue, as a quick fix you can use “Disable video titles” checkbox in Settings -> FV Player Pro -> Hosting -> YouTube and Vimeo boxes.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello amiremami,

regarding the Flash issue – it appears you are using the Settings -> FV Player -> Integrations/Compatibility -> “Prefer Flash player by default” – please make sure you disable it and test again.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Shez,

we are putting it into the FV Player Pro Beta release now. Should be available for your to use later today.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello cruiserparts,

you were asking when this will be ready in an email – you can actually test this new feature before it gets released for public. Just reinstall the FV Player plugin from this ZIP file: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/task-7005550-email-sharing-text.zip

If you are not experienced with ZIP files – first you have to deactivate and delete the FV Player plugin which you are currently using and then install from that ZIP file by using the Add New -> Upload option in wp-admin -> Plugins. No videos or settings will be lost.

Please let us know how it goes. You will find the setting labeled as “Email Sharing Text”.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Jim,

are you using the Beta release of FV Player Pro? Does it happen even in the Release version? Here’s an article about how you can switch from Release to Beta, so analogically you can go back to Release: https://foliovision.com/2016/06/switching-pro-player-to-beta

However I still don’t see how this could be caused by FV Player Pro – we are not changing the way the posts are getting published. Are you able to disable Templatera and WPBakery Vistual Composer and see if the issue disappears?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Luria,

I was not able to reproduce that issue, the splash screen appears properly for me as the video loads.

Could you please let us know what exact Chrome version you are using? Best if you could send over the exact user agent string which you can find here: http://www.whoishostingthis.com/tools/user-agent/

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Sergio,

I found we are not detecting Chrome 56 which has this download button. It was introduced in Chrome 55.

FV Player 6.0.5.19 has been released now and it fixes this issue.

The issue is related to the native fullscreen mode – we originally set FV Player to use the Android native fullscreen mode to help the older and slower devices. So now we setting it back to use the FV Player fullscreen mode which will prevent that download button from showing up. The native fullscreen mode will be only used on Android < 4.4 and iOS < 7 if it's not using Chrome 55 and above. That should work for you as a quick and good enough fix, please let us know if you notice any issues with it. We will work on improving the Vimeo embedding. I don't think you need to change the way you are uploading the videos. Thanks, Martin

Hello Murat,

it seems like something might be failing in your Ajax requests. I checked your site but it seems you enabled the Vimeo iframe embedding as you were having these issues.

Could you please put it back live now, so that we can have a look? We are in the office until 4 PM UTC time.

I think it should just work, it appears to me the issue could be on the Vimeo end at that time (Wed, 08 Feb 2017 15:42:24 +0000 – Wed, 08 Feb 2017 15:49:56 +0000) as I’m looking at our Vimeo logs.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Clod,

the next release (FV Player Pro 0.8) will improve the scroll positioning a bit.

Unfortunately the new release is late, but you can get it even right now – just deactivate your current running copy of “FV Player Pro” and then delete it. Once that is done head over back to Settings -> FV Player and hit the yellow “Install Pro extension” which will give you the latest version.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello cruiserparts,

we are going to add a global option for this text.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Renato,

I see that the problem is that you can’t actually remove these captions as they keep coming back.

We will include a fix for this for new plugin release tomorrow, you will be able to disable these captions with a single global option.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gergely,

the quality switching was improved in FV Player Pro 0.7.26 in the Beta release so that it won’t hard fail if you switch to a missing quality file.

This fix will now be part of FV Player Pro 0.8.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Vincent,

next FV Player release will contain an option to enable Facebook Video Sharing.

When enabled any MP4 video without download protection with a splash image will be shared to Facebook directly rather than the standard post excerpt with a image.

If you could test it out in the beta release, it would be most welcome. You can get it be reinstalling the plugin from the following ZIP file: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/master.zip

Before you install that version you must first deactivate and delete your existing FV Player plugin. No settings or videos will be lost.

Please let us know if you have any issues.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Dmirtry,

we had a similar issue, so we created a fix for it for the upcomming release. You can test it by reainstalling the plugin from this ZIP file: https://github.com/foliovision/thoughtful-comments/archive/dev.zip

Please let us know how it goes. The new version has a ton of new features (live comment updates, comment voting, reporting), so it’s taking a while.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Luria,

we are behind on this work as you noticed. We are aiming to simplify the lightbox, so let me check with our team about how much priority this should get.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello johnlizenith,

if you need to do this for RTMP you can try this:


add_filter( 'fv_player_rtmp_bufferTime', 'tweak_ fv_player_rtmp_bufferTime' );

function tweak_ fv_player_rtmp_bufferTime() {
return 6;
}


That will set its buffer to 6 seconds. The default is 3 seconds.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Thorsten,

it would be possible to tweak this, but keeping the limit reasonable is what protects your viewers from endless ad loading in some cases. I’ve seen setup with some many VAST ads that it took half minute for the player to finally give up and just play the video.

How much time do you wait before you get that error when playing a video? Please let us know.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Devin,

FV Player 6.0.5.16 fixes the responsiveness for YouTube and Vimeo when using the basic iframe embedding.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello webmarka,

if it’s a live stream, it requires that parameter. It can also be set using the shortcode editor if the Post Interface Option “Live Stream” is enabled.

On our end the stream is very slow. Well, it was yesterday, but now it seems to run fine.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Alfons,

the important change in FV Player 6.0.5.15 was (citing from the change log https://foliovision.com/player/changelog): “Bugfix – RTMP – making sure it takes priority over other formats to prevent browser from trying to load HLS in Flash engine”

We did this so that if there is a player with HLS and RTMP the Flash player would pick the RTMP format over HLS, as HLS has higher requirements when loading in Flash.

What happens to you suggests that your RTMP stream is actually not working and perhaps it never as browser were picking MP4 video instead.

Please check if it plays if you remove the RTMP stream from that player.

Since FV Player plays HLS streams with proper crossdomain.xml file in Flash, you don’t really need RTMP if you can meet these requirements: https://foliovision.com/player/video-hosting/hls

Thanks,
Martin

Hello sdugoten,

thank you for your bugreport and testing. We will make this fix part of the next plugin release, so you don’t have to worry about that.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello sdugoten,

thank you for the full shortcode.

We set the RTMP to take priority over otherformats as in your case the Flash engine is trying to play your HLS stream which fails due to missing crossdomain.xml file which is no needed for devices which support it natively.

Could you please reinstall FV Player from this ZIP file and let us know if it fixes your issues? It worked on our test site. https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/master.zip

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Jasmin,

could you please ask the LMS team to send us a copy of their theme for a test? Then we can check what kind of error is appearing and if it’s a problem in our plugin which we could fix.

Thanks,
Martinn

Hello Jasmin,

we will check this in our team and get back to you.

We will be happy to assist you right now is you order a Pro support incident: http://foliovision.com/pro-support

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Sve,

the iframe embedding works like you described, with all the settings being applied to the video.

I see that it won’t open at all: http://www.4u2rate.com/2016/12/18/59/fvp/

Could you please try to visit wp-admin -> Settings -> Permalinks? Doing that will refresh the rewrite rules and perhaps it will start working.

If not, please try to disable all the other plugins and then visit Settings -> Permalinks again. Will that help?

If you need this issue resolved by our team quickly, we will be happy to get it fixed right on your site if your order our Pro support: http://foliovision.com/pro-support

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Paco,

could you please let us know what browser on what version you are using? Also, what operation system are you using on which version?

What steps do you need to take for this to happen? For example:

1) Start writing a new post using wp-admin -> Posts -> Add new
2) Click the FV Player icon, the shortcode editor comes up like you can see it on the first screenshot here: https://foliovision.com/2016/12/introducing-new-shortcode-editor
3) You fill in the video URL or use “Add Video” to pick it from media library
4) You click Insert
5) The [fvplayer] shortcode is not inserted into the post but the browser loading indicator keeps spinning indefinitely

Could you please put together a list of steps you need to take for the bug to occur like I did above?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Devin,

sorry, I should add that you need to switch FV Player Pro to its beta version first. Instructions can be found here: https://foliovision.com/2016/06/switching-pro-player-to-beta

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gbrother,

FV Player Pro 0.7.42 released just now allows you to enable MPEG DASH for your Vimeo videos, just use Settings -> FV Player -> Hosting -> Vimeo (Pro) -> Enable MPEG-DASH (Beta).

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Ken,

turns out that MyCred parses the HTML aggressively and there was some not properly escaped HTML special char in our code.

The fix will be included in next FV Player Pro release.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello David,

we found some library which can do this, however we are busy working on new shortcode editor (much better user experience mainly with playlists) and releasing some of the FV Player Pro beta improvements (mainly YouTube) to stable version.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Saul,

thank you for the bug report, we just released FV Player Pro 0.7.41 which fixes this issue.

The Vimeo API was called twice on a post save when there was a change in the post HTML due to a bug in our code. We also added caching for it so that it only checks once every hour, if there is a change to the post.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Raymond,

I’m not able to reproduce this issue, no matter if I enable “Post Thumbnail” or not.

Do you see any errors on the browser error console? Here’s how to use it: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Your_Browser_to_Diagnose_JavaScript_Errors#Step_3:_Diagnosis

If you want to get this fixed in a hurry, you can order our pro support: http://foliovision.com/pro-support

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Rock,

please downgrade to 6.0.5.8.2 if you really need to get it working the way it was before.

We are considering adding an option for this, we will do so shortly.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Nate,

the iframe won’t be so easy, so starting from FV Player 6.0.5.9 for these AMP pages we just insert bare video tags where possible and otherwise just show the video splash screen and information that there is a video in that post with a link to the post.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gbrother,

you can test our Vimeo MPEG-DASH integration here: https://foliovision.com/player/demos/vimeo-channel-support

Just pick any video and when you enter the fullscreen mode you might be noticing that the picture will at first be a bit blurry but then it will get much sharper as it switches to the higher quality.

That means your shouldn’t be getting any quality switching buttons on these videos. If you do get these, then it’s because either the video doesn’t have MPEG-DASH version of it available or your browser doesn’t support it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bill,

unfortunately it seems that reencoding the video properly for web is the best way of fixing the bad video meta data (moov) position, if that’s what you mean.

We will have another look for some tool that would fix it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Devin,

we made progress on MPEG-DASH, we are currently fixing compatibility with some of the streams and making sure there is a working fallback for devices without MediaSource capability for the codecs Vimeo is using.

Thanks,
Martin