Hi Martin

Thanks for the response,

Yes I can change the PPV to a download without any additional plugins, all I did was remove the FV
Player item then in EDD take the price to zero, in the EDD download files section I added the URL
to the file I want them to download and this works okay. And makes the download link appear in
their account correctly, The only problem is that it leaves the PPV watch button which obviously
doesn’t do anything now. What I want to do is change this button to a download link to the
downloadable file.

Just so you know exactly this is what we are trying to achieve.

For existing customer who have previously purchased a PPV stream from several years ago , we want
them to now download the file for their future use rather than streaming it. The reason for this is
to save us the cost of hosting and streaming the file going forward, our products only have a small
revenue window once this has expired and we know we will not get any new sales it makes sense to
stop the ongoing costs. But I need to make it so that the customer can download it from their
account page so I need to keep the link to the sales order etc.

Originally I was think that I would be able to change the PPV watch button that you had in the EDD
Download Instructions Box
” and change it to something like
”
But when I changed it and tried to save it the originally link would reappear, you said that it was
because you had hijacked the box for your link, you have now removed the hijack and relocated the
Watch button so I can’t access it to change it directly now if I put code in the box to make a
download button etc I end up with 2 buttons in the account Watch & Download so that’s why I was
asking if code was found in the Download instructions box, it could override the watch button or
you might be able to come up with some better way to achieve our goal namely to remove the PPV
while retaining the account information and allowing a file download from the customers accounts
only.

I hope this all makes sense, if not please feel free to ask any questions, I think we are fairly
close to being able to do this I don’t mind if it means us having to do things a bit manually as
long as we know how.

I look forward to hearing from you

Best regards

Stuart

Hi Martin
Okay i understand that this is outside the scope of plugin, but would/could it maybe check the EDD download instructions box where you had the watch button previously and if it sees something like
“Download
or code to blank this out it could use this instead of the default Watch Button
Many thanks

Regards
Stuart

Hi martin
Thanks for providing an explanation its nice to know why things are required, and I appreciate you adding the extra code so that we can achieve our goal. thank you as always for the excellent support.
Regards
Stuart

Hi Martin,

I thought that using your player would bypass any problems with the browser,
I can stream the same file using VLC media player and it works perfectly. I obviously don’t fully understand the correlation between browsers, players, websites etc so it does get confusing as to why i can strean one way and not another.

Yes thats correct,

Here is a link to a test page with video embedded

https://www.movingmemoriesproductions.co.uk/stuart/

Hi Martin
I havew had chance to test it out now, i can’t chromecast any of the videos on your page using chrome browser of course I can cast using airplay and dnla on our page i can stioll chromecast whatever is the last video on the page, all vimeo or youtube videos chromecast no problem,
so i am struggling to work out what is the problem