Hi Alec. A little development. First, I have to say whenever I experiment with different video delivery strategies I continue to be amazed by the versatility of your player. Really incredible work you guys have done here.
In case someone else should contact you and ask for help about a similar scenario as I had, you might want to tell them that they can use HLS as the main video source, then add another video format in the shortcode editor, and put a standard MP4 source there. I’ve done that, and the HLS source plays on mac and iOS (of course), while on Android, which doesn’t support HLS, it plays the MP4 without an issue..even with quality selection. The best part is with the FLowplayer 6 core, non-mac desktops with Flash will also play the HLS. Thought that might be of help and interest to you, should someone else have a similar “problem”
Again, really nice work you guys have done on this player. It’s a gem.
Tim

Thanks for the reply.
I’m not necessarily looking for streaming, I’m looking for range request progressive playback. The trouble with HLS is that it’s only natively supported on Apple devices. On non-apple devices, it needs Flash in order to run. Even googles latest Android release doesn’t seem to support HLS natively. And Flash is no longer available on Android. RTMP is natively supported in Android, but it doesn’t run on iOS. The only true universal playback is HTTP protocol, playing MP4 files.
What I’m looking for is the same behavior on a desktop as what is already happening on an iPad over HTTP protocol. It downloads a chunk of the object (episode) during playback. When the user gets closer to playing up to the chunk that has been downloaded, the player downloads another “chunk” of the episode, etc. Since this seems to already be “normal” behavior in your player (on iPad) I was wondering if there’s a way to have it behave the same way on a desktop.
Thanks again
Tim

That’s weird. I purged the whole folder. Maybe I need to purge individual files; maybe purging folders doesn’t work. I’ll purge the file you pointed out here. Thanks a lot. And yes, CDNs do make troubleshooting harder. It adds another layer to consider. Definitely very annoying.

UPDATE
Martin: I was able to sort it out by starting clean with the last public release that I had backed up. From there I did the upgrades of the player, and then the pro-pack via the WordPress back end. I then went back to find the latest license code you guys sent me on July 30th. Everything seems to be up to date and working now.

Also the back end says “Pro pack not installed. Please install it and enter your FV Flowplayer license”. But I remember it did this in the past, too, with a previous public release, even though the pro pack WAS installed and serialized. After a day or 2 the message just went away. So we don’t have to worry about that for now. Just wanted to bring it to your attention.

One last thing, in the WordPress Plugins back end the description for FV WordPress FLowplayer says “Uses Flowplayer 5”. not FLowplayer 6. I’m sure it’s probably just a mistake but I wanted to let you know in case you guys need to re-write the public description to indicate “Flowplayer 6″…if it is indeed just a mistake. Just pointing it out as a courtesy; it isn’t a problem for me.

Thanks again for everything

Tim

By the way, I have to apologize for my message this morning. I just looked it over and it was unintentionally nasty. I didn’t mean it to be—I wasn’t trying to be nasty. But as I’m reading it it looks nasty and I should have worded it differently. That was not my intention. Very sorry about that
Tim

Also my theme style sheet is enormous. Where within the style sheet should I place that code? Thank you Viktor
Tim

Disregard the message below (I’m just leaving it in for records). I am using MaxCDN and a caching plugin on my site. I just purged the CDN of the site’s files an reloaded. The white box has returned. This time at least the background is dark again. So we’re back to the original problem. A white box/border around the light boxed videos. Just to be clear, this was not there in the last version I was using, so it has to do with a change you made from the last version, to this new version. I don’t know if that helps point you in the right direction or not. If you want me to insert that CSS somewhere anyway, just tell me which file, and where to paste it. Thanks.Actually here’s a new problem.
====BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL ‘UPDATE’ I SENT A FEW MINUTES AGO=====
I updated the plugins (player, and pro pack) ahead of modifying any CSS. and now the white borer is gone, but NOW there is no black background. It’s a video box playing over my site’s background. How do I make that background black again? Also, there is a “Close” button. That needs to go away too. Why is there so much change with this new version? It’s really annoying.
Tim

Actually, new update…new error message: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class FV_Player_Pro in /home/vericast/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fv-player-pro/fv-player-pro.php on line 2514

I’m giving up on this beta now.

Getting this error in my Dashboard:
“Warning: include(/home/vericast/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/controller/../view/frontend-head.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/vericast/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/controller/backend.php on line 75

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/vericast/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/controller/../view/frontend-head.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/vericast/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/controller/backend.php on line 75″

Also, in my network admin dashboard:
“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class FV_Player_Pro in /home/vericast/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fv-player-pro-beta/fv-player-pro.php on line 2336”

The pro extension is not working. The pro features appear in my site dashboard, but they aren’t showing up in the player. For example, I have no lightbox at all now.

Hi guys. Still waiting to hear back regarding removal of that white border/box around the lightbox popup windows for my videos. Thanks

Okay so this is me contacting you for the FV Player Pro extension pack. I don’t know how else to contact you for it.

Thanks Martin.
Yeah, since using your player I’ve always used the source URL that vimeo provides for 3rd party players and stats have always worked. But using the Vimeo Video’s page URL gives me no stats at all.

Martin:
I just manually updated and it works perfectly. Thanks again. Let me give clarify something I said a moment ago.
The Plugins interface in wordpress has two plugins for this player; “Fv Player Pro” and “FV WordPress FLowplayer” Yesterday I updated “FV WordPress Flowplayer” because it said there was an update available. So when I told you yesterday that i had updated the player, that’s what I meant. “FV Player Pro” did not indicate that there was an available update, so I left that alone. I don’t know if that’s a wordpress glitch that it said no update was available but I thought you’d like to know.
So today I manually downloaded, and installed the new version of “FV PlayerPro” and everything is working fine. Thanks again!!
Tim

After updating to the latest version, I still see no settings for “Remove Vimeo Information…” I only see “Advanced Vimeo Embedding”, “Access Token”, and “Enable quality switching: (beta)”

What do you mean by “Vimeo’s fixed URLs”?? Do you mean the independent URLs they provide for each format so that we can use 3rd party players? Or do you mean the URLs for the video’s page?

Thank you, Martin. I remain a very big fan of this player. The work your team put into it is stunning

“Then our plugin will see that you enabled quality switching for the video and that the video matches the -HD quality and will add up -SD and -mobile automatically.”

AH! Okay, so as long as I maintain the same naming convention (-SD -HD -Mobile) I only have to put in the HD version in the short code, and the player will automatically switch to the other files when the user switches quality settings? No need to put in the other two video files? That’s great.

If I can ask, what then is the purpose of putting in multiple formats in the short code? Is that so there can be different formats other than mp4 (if I provide them?).

2) Actually I found the gallery popup styling. It was in style.css. I didn’t comment anything out (there seem to be a lot there) but I changed the color of the backdrop and it’s working now.

I think all of my issues have been addressed and I want to thank you for your help, and for helping me so quickly. I was very eager to begin rolling out this player and I was very disheartened when I discovered these issues.

3) One last thing: Is there going to be a problem using Vimeo Pro? As I said, using vimeo pro for the quality switching definitely didn’t work, but I’m not too concerned about that.

When I want to offer quality switching I’ll host the videos on my own CDN. But what I have been doing is offering SD video to public, and HD video only to subscribers. Sometimes I host the HD video myself (for better performance) but sometimes I use the vimeo pro links to provide the HD video if it’s a very long episode. Is this going to be a problem?

I have enabled Vimeo Pro in the plugin settings, and I THINK I have correctly installed the access token.

Thank you again. This player is a perfect implementation of FLowplayer, with all of the features of Flowplayer. But Flowplayer doesn’t provide a plugin for wordpress that easily enables those features. But you guys have done that. It’s really great work you have done!

Martin:
I have set up a password-protected post with 3 implementations of the player for testing.

First implementation on that post is just a standard single video. Works fine, except for the Facebook share link.

Second implementation is quality switching. This worked only once where the video started in HD, and I was able to switch to SD, however I was not able to switch back to HD again. So I then refreshed the page, and the video started in SD this time, and didn’t allow me to switch to HD.

When I first wrote to you about this quality switching issue I was using Vimeo’s external player links. For testing purposes this post uses links to my CDN (not Vimeo) to make the testing cleaner. Yet it still doesn’t work. Also there is no mobile version for this test because I didn’t encode one). But when I was using mobile versions a few days ago (vimeo’s links), the player always played the mobile version by default, no matter what…even though I’m testing on a desktop browser. No matter what order I put the video links in, it ALWAYS defaulted to the mobile video, and never let me switch to SD or HD.

Third implementation is lightbox, which is very important for me. It does work, but it isn’t dimming the background.

These are functions that are very important to how I use the player and I hope we can get them to work. Thanks for your help, and thank you for developing a wonderful player plugin.