Hello Scott,

thank you your kind words!

I checked your issue – are you also using our Amazon S3 protection? Please let us know what setting you have there, it appears that your custom Cloudfront domain is getting matched by your Amazon S3 bucket.

You can try to enter bigger part of your Amazon S3 bucket URL into Amazon S3 settings. For example if you are using URLs like https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/t…y/video.mp4 then you can try to put in “amazonaws.com/t…y” rather than just “t…y”. I think that should help, but make sure you check your Amazon S3 videos afterwards if they play.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Helmar,

the buffering is controlled by browser, different browser will buffer differently.

However if you hit the “q” key while playing a video, it will unload our player completely. Could you please test and let us know if that’s what you are after?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello magentawave,

sorry about the delay, we got bogged down in solving server issues.

The idea is that you can enter your button HTML as the ad. So just put the right class on it and make sure it has the right a href link.

If you install our latest development version from this ZIP file: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/master.zip Then you will see a setting in Setting -> FV Player -> Ads -> “Show after”. You can enter 5 in there and your button HTML to the above box as per this guide: https://foliovision.com/player/adding-ads

That should allow you to put in your HTML and have it show up after a set time.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Nate,

thank you for the details. I checked for some other site and this one is responsive: http://www.whatsmyua.com/

I’m not having the issue on Samsung Android 4.4.4 with stock browser. I should be able to get my hands on Android 4.3 later today.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bethany,

we do have speed control and after some testing I can say that it can indeed by increased by 0.1. So we could add that into our plugin.

However we would have to make sure we test all devices, as I’m not sure if mobile devices support all of that. I’ll check if we want to do this with our team.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gbrother,

could you please check if you are currently having issues with your videos embedded using FV Player?

Then please check if it works better for you here: http://foliovision.com/html/dash/test.html

The issue you reported was “html5: http error” after few minutes of video playback or when seeking in the video. It occurred even when using Vimeo Pro file URLs.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Ola,

unfortunately your link doesn’t work.

I’m not sure what exactly if your goal, if that’s a lightbox which pops up automatically and plays the video, then that’s not currently supported. We can autoplay the video as soon as it gets open though, perhaps you can setup a click event for the lightbox element on jQuery(document).ready( function() { .. } );

We also need to improve our Ajax compatibility, we could do something to have the playlists working in Ajax loaded content.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Martin,

1) Blinking cursor – could you please send over the URL of your page where we can see it?

2) Cursor hiding – you can try a CSS like this (just put it to your theme stylesheet or custom CSS field):

.flowplayer.is-mouseout {
cursor: none;
}

3) Fullscreen button position – we had the same question here, please have a look: https://foliovision.com/support/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/how-to/customize-skin

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gbrother,

we released FV Player Pro 0.6.20 which has the Settings -> FV Player Pro -> Vimeo Pro -> “Force iframe Embedding” option which lets you switch all the players to basic embed codes at once.

This is good in case of some failure in our player, however it mean your playlists or other features won’t work with the Vimeo videos.

We are checking how to use Vimeo MPEG-DASH videos.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gbrother,

does it happen with all the players on your test page? That means FV Player with its Vimeo integration. FV Player with Vimeo Pro video URL and Vimeo iframe embed code?

If it’s better with the Vimeo iframe code, then we can switch our plugin to use MPEG-DASH for Vimeo videos

You also said the problem is also visible when using the Vimeo Pro video URL, so you could be submitting that issue to Vimeo support.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gbrother,

could you please send us the exact URL where we can see the issue?

You also said: “There are same problem with playing videos neither to put vimeo code nor put file directly.”

So are you seeing the issue with just our player or also when using Vimeo iframe?

I had a quick look at Vimeo forums and noticed some playback issues are occurring in Brazil: https://vimeo.com/forums/help/topic:281259

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gbrother,

thank you for the bug report, we are having a look.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Chi,

we are about to finish release of brand new FV Player Pro, however we are suddenly bogged down in a lot of work in improving our client license screens.

Could you please disable any post-roll ads for now and see if that helps?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello magentawave,

with a bit of luck the feature might be out this week.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello amiremami,

here’s a sample code for FV Player which detects if the user really watched the video to the end (seeking to the end won’t suffice) and then sends the post ID using Ajax: https://gist.github.com/foliovision/2c266598333ecbd1f151

If you know PHP and JavaScript it should be possible for you to link it all together

Thanks,
Martin

Hello magentawave,

we will add a setting to show the standard ad code after X seconds, so you will be able to use that: https://foliovision.com/player/adding-ads

Thanks,
Martin

Hello magentawave,

you submissions are still treated as spam by Akismet. Other users don’t have this issue. I put in some code to disable Akismet on forum submissions for logged in users, so it should be fine now.

1) Yes, Optimize Press 2 should work, that’s what our post was about. Since it’s a paid software we can’t test it right now, so if nothing big has changed in it, it should still work.

2) We think that it’s important to not stay locked-in in any plugin, theme or CMS. Nothing to fear about in the near future, but it’s important to know how to pack your site and move it elsewhere or to a different system when needed.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello HR,

are you using a custom theme for bbPress? Does it work with the standard WordPress theme? What about some standard WordPress shortcode? Does that work?

Does [audio mp3="source.mp3" ogg="source.ogg" wav="source.wav"] put in an audio player?

Thanks,
Martin

• This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by Martin.

Hello magentawave,

we are sorry about the posting issues, however your submissions were detected as spam by the Akismet antispam service again. I did another check now and it appears your email address is not currently marked as spam, but you should be still in touch with them to let you know which comments you made to some other website using Akismet could have marked you as a spammer.

When we did out OptimizePress 2 tests there was no need for any plugin which would disable the Flowplayer built in into Optimize Press. Could you please have a look at the guide I posted above and let us know where the issue occurs?

We don’t recommend using something like OptimizePress for the exact reason as you said – we don’t want to do something that we can’t reverse later – so just make sure OptimizePress has a way of exporting the content built with the Live Edit feature.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gbrother,

please let us know what Vimeo plan are you using and if you are able to get the oAuth2 keys now.

I see what issue has occurred with FORCE_SSL_ADMIN or FORCE_SSL_LOGIN. Please upgrade FV Player Pro to 0.6.18 and the Vimeo videos will continue working.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gbowman,

could you please let us know what API are you having issues with?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello magentawave,

I’m checking your request indepth with Alec.

Thanks,
Martin

Discussion moved here: https://foliovision.com/support/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/troubleshooting/amazon-s3-hosted-ideos-wont-play-on-ios-android-after-i-change-s3-permissions-2

Hello amiremami.

thank you for the input from myCRED developers.

I can see how this could work and it’s not a huge job. Flowplayer has a hook to detect video end, but it means user can just skip to the end of the video. But there is a way of tracking that, we done that for our improved Google Analytics tracking.

I can see how we can improve our documentation for use face like this, but I’m not sure how we can add an feature like this to our plugin since it also requires custom code in myCRED, we will have a look in our team.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Thorsten,

please try adding data-vast=”skip” to the Flowplayer element – #videoad-top. We should also add support for using Flowplayer clip object for configuring this.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello amiremami.

sorry about the delay.

You can script around FV Flowplayer to have an Ajax call running at the end of each video. does myCRED provide any hooks which could be initiated using Ajax? If no, then it would also require some extra PHP code. Such code can be seen here: https://gist.github.com/gabrielmerovingi/5536bdf423ca6c5c79e3

Do you have access to myCRED support to ask them how to trigger their hooks using JavaScript in some good way?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Roger,

we released FV Clone Screen Options 0.2.3 which fixes some PHP warnings.

Could you please let us know what screen are you having issues with? We tested cloning the main dashboard screen repeatedly for some admin users and could see it works.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Thorsten,

you can add vast_engine=”flash” to the shortcode and it will use the Flash engine to play the VAST ad – making it compatible with VPAID as well.

The player engine is something else, it doesn’t affect FV Player VAST ad playback.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Kerry,

sorry about that, there must be some issue with the FV Player Pro and post-roll ads. However we are working hard on the new version currently, which improves the ad options.

I made the new FV Player Pro beta version available for you in case you are interested in testing it. You can get it on https://foliovision.com/login -> My Products -> Extensions -> FV Player Pro -> (beta). Make sure you reinstall the latest version of FV WordPress Flowplayer before using it though!

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gaetan,

please explain what exactly you mean about the “pub”. Is there any sample link where we can see the issue on your website? Are you trying to make sure the overlay ad stays on the video for at least 5 seconds?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Chi,

sorry about that, please upgrade to FV WordPress Flowplayer 6.0.4.12 and this will be fixed. Please let us know how it goes.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Steve,

the videos are loaded when clicked. There is an autoplay option as well. We are fixing the autobuffering option as it was causing issues with YouTube videos.

The CloudFront is always using expiration time of 15 minutes. It uses Ajax request to fetch the video URL so it works well with caching plugins.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Shaun,

1) So is there [fvplayer] shortcode in the page you are saving? If you use it in your theme that should not affect anything.

2) Are you saying even blank post takes long to save?

4) Please check if you have Settings -> FV WordPress Flowplayer -> Integrations -> “Scan video length” enabled and see if disabling it will fix the issue?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Shaun,

that is a weird issue, we check the video length (for videos on Amazon S3) or fetch splash screens (for Vimeo or YouTube) on post saving, but it should never take so long.

1) Could you please check if there are any [fvplayer] or other shortcodes in the post you are saving?

2) Is the post saving slow even when you start a brand new post (or page) and only write a single sentence to is and save it?

3) Is your WordPress Admin Dashboard also slow?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Gbrother,

after you create the app and you are on URL like https://developer.vimeo.com/apps/{number} you should see “Basic”, “OAuth” and “OAuth2” tabs above your app name and logo.

Are you using Vimeo Plus or Vimeo Pro?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Osvaldo,

thank you for your interest in our plugin!

You need to setup your videos like this:

http://videos.my-site.com/my-chosen-directory/video-name-1-hd.mp4
http://videos.my-site.com/my-chosen-directory/video-name-1-mobile.mp4
http://videos.my-site.com/my-chosen-directory/video-name-1-sd.mp4

Our plugin can be configured to detect the “-hd” in the file name and use that for the quality switching – it swaps it to “-sd” or “-mobile” based on what quality is desired.

More information available in our quality switching guide: https://foliovision.com/player/switch-video-quality

If you are looking to a video hosting and encoding with quality switching we recommend using Vimeo Pro: https://foliovision.com/player/how-to-use-vimeo-pro

Thanks,
Martin

Hello David,

we would have to put up preload=”metadata” for the video tag and stop using the is-splash class. Then the first video frame would show up, although in a lot of our videos it’s black as the video fades in.

We will have to test this out carefully before adding a setting for it into our plugin.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Osvaldo,

thank you for the demo, however I don’t see a skip link on the ad even when using Google VAST Inspector https://developers.google.com/interactive-media-ads/docs/sdks/flash/vastinspector or JW Player http://demo.jwplayer.com/ad-tester/

I recommended you set the skip property because you asked about VAST ad. You are using a VPAID ad, so the skip button would have to be built into the VPAID SWF or JS which is not under our control.

We could add our own skip button, but in case of your ad I don’t see any tracking for ad skip event, so perhaps the skipping really is blocked as your ad seems to be only wrapping some other ad.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Kerry,

we talked about this in our team and we will separate the default video ad picket to one for pre-roll and one for post-roll. That will allow you to have a random video at the start and a fixed video at the end of each player.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Kerry,

we added the name field. This feature will be included in the FV Player Pro 0.7 release coming next week.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello David,

we would have to code that whole function to use ffmpeg to grab the first video frame.

The first frame of video can be displayed, but it greatly depends on the web browser. Since we are supporting also YouTube and Vimeo, there is a lot of things to check before we would enable this.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Kerry,

could you please explain more about your idea of naming the ad link/code? Where would it appear in settings and where on the site frontend?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Jonathan,

please check Settings -> FV WordPress Flowplayer -> Sidewide Flowplayer Defaults -> Always use fixed size player.

If you use this option make sure you doublecheck your videos on mobile.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Osvaldo,

do you want to keep the playlist items below the player when using these next/prev links?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Kerry,

we support both pre-roll and post-roll ads: https://foliovision.com/player/video-roll-post

The documentation is a bit outdated though, sorry about that. Now you can add multiple video ads into configuration and then select for each video which one should appear.

However I see that currently we won’t allow you to pick one video for pre-roll and some other for post-roll. So the “Pick default ad for all the videos” should be split into “Pick default pre-roll ad for all the videos” and “Pick default post-roll ad for all the videos”. Is that what you mean?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Ganesh,

we recently realized that our Vimeo integration doesn’t accept VTT subtitles, so now we are working hard on improving this.

I see you are interested in using the subtitles added to the video on Vimeo directly. That is a bit different issue, but we will look into it as soon as we finish our Vimeo improvements.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello smith234,

I put a fix for this into the plugin. Please reinstall the plugin from WordPress.org (you can download the ZIP file or just install it through your website) and let us know if the issues still persists.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Julien,

I can confirm that the Vimeo Pro direct HLS link only plays in devices which support HLS natively – iPad, iPhone, Safari web browser on Mac and new versions of Android.

FV Flowplayer is able to play HLS also on any computer with Flash, however not these particular HLS streams from Vimeo Pro unfortunately. I tested JW Player here and I’m getting the same results.

Vimeo doesn’t seem to care much about this, they recommend you use the MP4 links for any external player: https://vimeo.com/forums/help/topic:103223#comment_9193268

The workaround is to open the HLS link in your browser and check where it redirects in the browser network panel. Example:

https://player.vimeo.com/external/46195780.m3u8?p=high,standard,mobile&s=64c504b85ee64c5d1b12e24f81ac7ca2a3ac7971 redirects to https://05-lvl3-hls.vimeocdn.com/1454678967-2eb326232deff04c3ae966b7d796388c45425bb4/01/4239/1/46195780/master.m3u8 – and that link can be used with our player. However I’m not sure if Vimeo ever changes this URL – the chances are it does, so I can’t recommend this as solution. The whole issue is caused by this redirection.

There are ways of downloading HLS stream, better option is to use encrypted HLS – something we are working on.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Julien,

I tried to insert one of our Vimeo videos that way – using the direct Vimeo Pro HLS file link – and I see if won’t work.

I’ll have to check again tomorrow in the office if it will play on Mac Safari, as I’m currently on Firefox which plays the video using Flash, as core Flowplayer 6 which we use supports that. Perhaps there is some additional layer of protection on these Vimeo HLS files which is not compatible with it.

I’ll also check if it plays with our Vimeo Pro integration.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello robertgc,

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

Is your site full of iframe embeds for Youtube or Vimeo and are you looking for a way of having all of them embed with our player?

Thanks,
Martin