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FV Player Videos Can Now Be Tracked with Matomo Analytics

Collect data about FV Player videos in a privacy conscious way. We have added support for Matomo, the popular alternative to Google Analytics.

VAST Autoplay Now Available on Mobile

Let your VAST ads reach a wider audience thanks to the newly added support for mobile autoplay.

Add Custom CSS to FV Player much easier

Thanks to our new Custom CSS field, customizing your FV Player will be simpler and easier than ever.

Easier Way to Migrate Your FV Player Video Library

If you plan on changing CDNs, FV Player Migration Wizard will help you to effortlessly change video URLs as a batch operation.

YouTube privacy-enhanced mode is the new default for FV Player

The privacy-enhanced mode allows you to embed YouTube videos without collecting cookies. FV Player uses this mode by default now.

Disable Firefox Picture in Picture to Prevent Screen Capturing

Picture in picture feature in browsers is able to bypass DRM text. While easily disabled in other browsers, Firefox demands a different solution.

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.

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