New AB Loop and Custom Start/End Time Improvements
Improvements to the AB Loop feature make learning via FV Player even smoother than before. The Custom Start/End Time feature received small fixes.
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DRM Text Can Now Be Set to Be Visible at All Times
The new "Watermark" preset makes the DRM text visible at all times, as opposed to the original method of rapidly flashing and randomly timed text.
Interactive Video Transcripts Now also Supported in Playlists
Interactive Video Transcript is now supported in playlists. There is also a new setting, preventing automated formatting of the transcript text.
How to Protect your HLS Streams with URL Tokens
The new Stream Loader feature uses signed URLs to protect HLS streams from downloading or unauthorized access to the video content.
New improvements to the Scroll Autoplay feature
The new setting allows videos to autoplay while scrolling up, as well as autoplaying other videos after one has been manually paused.
Dev Site – Staging Site Now Automatically Included with All Pro Licenses
From this week, there's a separate field for a dev site in every licensed account.
Watch Multiple Videos Simultaneously with FV Player
We're really happy to announce that it is now possible to watch multiple videos simultaneously with the new 7.4.17.727 update!
How to Protect Your Facebook Videos from Downloaders
So you now have a website with all your videos encrypted with FV Player Pro using AWS Elemental MediaConvert, AWS Elastic Transcoder or Coconut.co (full FV Player integration coming soon )? Or perhaps your video platform is Vimeo and you can just put up FV Player Vimeo Security and stop at least the known video download tools. Bravo!
Now you want to post some of your videos to Facebook. Are your videos protected from download there? Not really, not even in a private group. Using FV Player Pro with independent hosting is not really an option. Facebook doesn't play well with independently hosted videos, you really have to upload to their platform, which we don't control.
Here's some good strategies to minimise your risk.
Keep reading How to Protect Your Facebook Videos from Downloaders
Reliability and usability fixes in FV Player
We haven't eased up on our work on great new features for our player. Here's a list of all new stuff that've been recently added to our player.
Video not playing? How to check if Vimeo video hosting is down or if the issue is with your own website
Are your Vimeo hosted videos not playing back on your website? Here's what to check first to determine it it's a Vimeo issue or your own infrastructure.
New Contributor and Author user permissions
Besides other new interesting features there's really useful one.
We've added contributor and author permissions into the FV Player editor.
New subtitles language remembering feature
Using subtitles will always allow you to server your videos to more audience. With the new update, it's more convenient than ever before.
New global and per-player muted autoplay feature
Autoplay is heavily used feature within FV Player users and we're glad to announce a simple but really useful update to it.
New HTML mark-up and design changes
This time we've focused on the technical background of our player and made few small but very important changes in our player's HTML code.
New AMP Support in FV VAST
We're adding support for AMP powered sites to our FV Player VAST! If you want to find more info, check this announcement.
New Playlist Styles
New projects always bring new interesting views on our player so we're glad that we can introduce you two new styles for our video playlists!
New remember video speed feature
A brand new video playback speed feature is coming to FV Player. Check this feature announcement if you want to find more information.
Cloud Hosting Providers where videos cannot be stored for playback on your website: OneDrive, ADrive, Dropbox
Choosing a Cloud Hosting to store all your videos on and stream them to your website may seem like an easy-to-do thing but the reality is often a totally different story.
Keep reading Cloud Hosting Providers where videos cannot be stored for playback on your website: OneDrive, ADrive, Dropbox
New built-in video screenshot thumbnail generator
Have you ever spent several minutes just by taking screenshots and uploading them to your site to make a simple thumbnail?
Save yourself a couple of minutes per each video and use our new built-in screenshot thumbnail generator with the new FV Player version 7.3.18.727!
Keep reading New built-in video screenshot thumbnail generator
New Vimeo picker
We're happy to introduce another important update that will save you a lot of time - Vimeo picker.
Read the full announcement to find more info.
