That’s for the clarification of Vimeo Unlimited Bandwidth.

Here is a publically accessible video on Wasabi https://new-bucket-4f236c37.s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com/x/Jordan-b-peterson.mp4 — This is accessible during my trial which expires Aug 15th

This is a 250MB file that I assume will load quickly from their Eastern US servers to your location in Eastern Europe.

I do not fee that I need a CDN,

Also, here is Wasabi’s Pricing and Free Egress policies
https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/
https://wasabi.com/blog/no-storage-egress-fees/

Wasabi creators have experience building and operating other businesses, which gives their operation credibility.

In summary, while my request for Wasabi support is apparently one of the first, I would expect that you’ll probably see more FV users request that you provide support for a Direct Connect to Wasabi.

I’ve setup a Trial with both Wasabi and BunnyCDN, and I’ve determined that using FV Player to access Wasabi through BunnyCDN DEFEATS THE GOAL OF USING WASABI TO LOWER MY COSTS, WHILE MAINTAINING USE OF PRIVATE WASABI (S3) BUCKETS.
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Here’s why this is the case…

I’ve learned that BunnyCDN can ONLY WORK with Wasabi if PUBLIC BUCKETS are accessed on Wasabi — Here’s the 1st Step given in Wasabi documentation on how to setup BunnyCDN access — https://prnt.sc/ts8hrm — As also noted in this, I’ve had to request the ability to Create Public Access Buckets. If they get back to me, while I’m still in my trial period, I will continue my test, just to see if this works as advertised.

HOWEVER, as a result, the purpose of using FV Player to ACCESS Videos on PRIVATE S3/Wasabi BUCKETS is DEFEATED.

Thus, without FV’s direct support of Wasabi’s S3 Compatible Buckets, none of this makes sense. Here’s the Wasabi document mentioned above accessible via a Public Bucket that I created (during my Wasabi Trial that expires on August 15th) https://new-bucket-4f236c37.s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com/x/Use%20BunnyCDN%20on%20Wasabi.pdf

Even if I wasn’t concerned about maintaining Private Access Videos, the problem I’m trying to avoid is “Extra AWS/S3 Charges” for Bandwidth Use. Wasabi Does Not Charge for Bandwidth, Only for Storage, which can make it a much lower cost option that AWS/S3. However, as soon as you add BunnyCDN bandwidth charges, you’re potentially back to the same cost as AWS/S3.

With all of this in mind, I would like to see FV implement support for Wasabi Buckets.

BTW, I use “S3 Browser” to maintain files on AWS/S3 and if it helps here is the setup they provide to access Wasabi https://prnt.sc/ts8tfg

I’m unfamiliar with HLS, could you point me to some tutorials on this way of delivering videos?

Also, when you say a “new plugin” — do you mean an enhanced version of FV Player? If so, when do you expect it to be available?

I found the “Skip global ad” setting for each FV video as shown here https://prnt.sc/s4wfm5

However, might there be a way to accomplish the second method that I mentioned in my last post, namely to somehow eliminate a global ad for FV Videos within every Page/Post that contains a certain String?

BTW, I’m hiding the Title on pages where the Ad is being Suppressed and so I could place any “tag like” stribng within a Title that no one would ever see (except the WP Admin), like “>> No Ad <<“” and so could CSS be used to automatically suppress a Global Ad for each Video that resides on a Page/Post that contains this string?

Help me to understand…
My current FV Plugins are shown here https://prnt.sc/qopwda
So my questions are:
1. For me to install the latest PRO plugin do I click “Add New” even though the plugin is already installed?
2. Will I need to wait until no one is accessing videos to do this install? In other words, will the install of a newer version disrupt the access to videos during the install?
3. Once I install this newer version then FV will automatically install each newer version?

I can find nowhere in my FV Admin UI that offers an Update option.

To update the player, do I simply Install the current plugin over top of the one I have installed?

I used my iPhone to access 3 videos on https://foliovision.com/weblog/video-of-the-week without any issue.

Do you have videos that are hosted on Vimeo that I could access.

Also, I have my site enabled to use the the wp-config.php FV_VIMEO_KEY — maybe that’s causing the issue?

BTW, I have replicated the iPHONE issue initially reported by accessing the video through a second iPHONE device.

To clarify the situation…
The issues I’ve described and the image overlay issue shown in the posted screenshot image appears to only be an issue when playing the video on my iPhone (running iOS 12.4.4)

However, when I access the video on either of our two iPads also runing iOS v12 (both an EARLIER version than 12.4.4) then everythings works as expected.

So, is there a known iPHONE issue?

Martin,
It now works!!!
I went to Appearance> Customize> Additional CSS
and pasted into the code box there…
#content .flowplayer.is-cva .fv-cva-time {display: none;}
Clicked “Publish” and now the Timing message no longer shows.
Thank you very much!!!

Sorry to belabor this, but my CSS knowledge is not great.

I’ve pasted the code you’ve given me into WP’s
Appearance> Theme Options> Advanced Settings
where I have placed other CSS code

However, using the following code has not removed the “Ad Time” messages
– Option 1
.flowplayer.is-cva .fv-cva-time {display: block;}
– Option 2
.flowplayer.is-cva .fv-cva-time {display: none;}
– Option 4
.flowplayer.is-cva .fv-cva-time {display: block;} .fv-cva-time {display: none;}

NONE of these Code Options have made a difference.

ANY SUGGESTION???

How can the version in use be known?
As far as I know the last install I made was 0.9.14

To Update the Pro Plugin — Is there a “live” update capability or does it need to be Uninstalled and the new version downloaded and installed?

Also, is there a way to be automatically notified of new versions?

I’ve moditored the FireFox playback of three versions of a 32 minute long and 155 MB video:
– The first two are Start-Stop versions show that only downloaded 3MB and 6MB each which is great.
– However, for some reason, with about 60% of the Full video played the same monitoring process shows that only about 12 MB has been downloaded, rather than the 80+MB that you’d expect — Why would this be the case????

My main concern is bandwidth, and so even 5MB of download overhead in addition to the actual portion to be shown via a 30 to 60 second start/stop, could result in a significant bandwidth savings, versus needing to pay for the bandwidth of downloading an entire 20 to 30 minute long video — And so this feature could be a great cost saving feature.

How can i actually view what bandwidth is being used with the start/stop feature? Can you give me a screen shot of chrome’s dev-tools that i can use to monitor this?

Also… the start/stop clips that I want to present would be used as part of “help information” for incorrectly answered questions on a quiz related to a user’s full (protected) video access. And so, in light of this could you please elaborate on your recommendation that the start/stop feature not be used for video protection — How would the start/stop feature provide less protection than the full video?

Martin,
One more question…
I’m now realizing that even with a very high timeout value being set for the S3 setting, on a Resume which now takes place within the window of the timeout period still being active, I am still experiencing a “403 Forbidden” Error at the point of resuming the video.

Ah ha! But…. as I write this question… I now realizing that the custom WP Plugin that’s been created to control the user session on my video playback pages is causing a “refresh” of its PHP Session, due to a PHP Garbage Collection process that was nullifying our otherwise active session. And so, it’s probably this ‘forced’ PHP Session Refresh that is causing this 403 Error — In which case, I can live with the slight hesitation, and 3 dots, on resume.

On the other hand, could your plugin could ‘somehow’ do something to accommodate the PHP Session Refresh, and then enable the replay to be resumed without the slight hesitation, and 3 dots being displayed???

If not, again, I’m okay with where this is all at — HOWEVER, YOUR FEEDBACK ON MY ABOVE “SECURITY RISK” POST IS CRITICAL TO IMPLEMENTING WHAT IS AN ACCEPTABLE WORKAROUND…

So, thank you for helping me with my thinking on the above post.

Here is a screen shot of the “Integrations/Compatibility” settings that you asked about…
https://www.screencast.com/t/dw29ynFUdQc

Martin,
I’ve finally been able to run another Test.

The FV Plugin was removed and a New Downloaded Plugin was Installed.

The results are better than before. However, I’m still not experiencing what is needed:
– The Good News is that on a Resume after a Pause of more than 10-15 minutes, the Video does actually play again, without giving a Network Error.
– The Bad News is that when I resume playback after a pause, the video then Restarts from the beginning, rather than continuing from the point of the pause.

You can see this by watching the video I’ve posted at http://www.screencast.com/users/dplum/folders/Default/media/ab64dec1-dc04-4875-8dde-60a9985c703e

What do we do next?

Martin,
Our Test site is being reconfigured and so I should be able to redo a test and get the Console info tomorrow.

However, in the meantime, please clarify what you mean by “…the query string version in the JavaScript file…” — where is this JS file located on our website?

I’m still not understanding what it is that we need to have or be doing to satisfy your concerns on this.

Martin,
I’ll do as you’re asking and reinstall and then reconfigure the FV Plugin.

But, before I do that I’d like to understand the relevance of your last point about “stripping the query string”.

Our use of FV will be within a Private Access Site which users need to first log into to gain access to any videos. AND the URL (string) that we use helps us to maintain important user and course information data between video page accesses. PLUS, users are not able to bookmark a page and go directly to any single page — they must first login and navigate to each page. FURTHER, if we were to enable a “Bookmarking” feature then we would control it by saving such site URL data and then use it to formulate the full “data loaded” URL so that the user could then access that page.

With all of this being said, I would not see a user returning the a video page url based on a FV version number being included.

And so, in view of all of this, are you saying that if we upgrade our FV Player between user access to our site that “somehow”, because of our site specific “data loaded” URLs, that a user would not be able to gain access to the full features available in a newer FV version?

With the Integrations/Compatibility Setting enabled…

Resume after 4 hours and 25 min pause results in a Network Error – See https://www.screencast.com/t/RUYO5PWc

Martin,
I’ve now updated the plugins — However another test has failed — https://www.screencast.com/t/VrrXwlwarv

The data you’ve asked for is at (redacted)

The problem may be related to my being unable to find anything related to the “dynamic_domains” array you’ve asked about, within the HTML for the test page.

If you want I can send over the HTML via a private message — However, the Revealit message has a max of 500 characters, so we need a different method.

Well I did another test, but is appears that either the FV Player that ran was Not the latest release, or the fixes that you mentioned are still not fixed — see screen shot at https://www.screencast.com/t/cVIWiPSaC2M

So, if I understand you correctly:
1. Your Pro Beta fix is now available for me to test
2. The display of the video URL should no longer happen on a Network Error.

Is this correct?

Martin,
Our videos are accessible only by logged in users.

Also, after a WP login videos are accessed via a separate domain that does not require a login. However, this second Domain is “made private” through our creation if s PHP Session that receives the user login info from the first Domain, and maintains this Session info throughout the user’s Access of the videos.

As a result, while the S3 FlowShield Player has been able to operate without issue within our PHP Session, perhaps FV is having difficulties because of the PHP Session.

I can provide you with access to our Test environment for you to do some investigation into this. However it would need to bethtu a private email.

One more issue that I’m experiencing is that I do not receive an email notifying me of replies made to a post that I make.

I’ve enabled the checkbox requesting this but it doesn’t seem to do anything.

Here’s another Test — This one was done using:
– a User Login Session rather than Admin Access
– Chrome Browser
– Windows 7

The video was resumed after a 15 minute pause — Here’s the Error with the DevTools screen shot https://www.screencast.com/t/zjDwVc9E6Uv

The images posted are a bit hard to make out.

I’ll try some more testing and get back.

I have some further input to this “Bug” issue on Forum Posts… It appears to be due to the fact that if a Reply is posted while you are Not Logged In then even though the replay is Saved and is “Awaiting Moderation”, if you Refresh the page while Not Logged in, you’ll not see that last Reply.

And so each time that I thought I’d lost a reply I had previously posted, in fact they were actually there, but I couldn’t see them because I wasn’t logged in.

I’m not sure what the answer to all of this is, but it would seem to me that you’d be best to FORCE a Login to the Forum to anyone who wants to view or post to it, AND if a user’s session times out then they need to re-login in order to continue this would eliminate the confusion and wasted time like what I’ve experienced.

In the absense of your making this change here’s what I’d recommend every one look for BEFORE THEY POST a Reply — see https://www.screencast.com/t/T96eDllehtxv

Martin,
In doing further testing, I realize that in those instances where I resumed and there was “No Problem” in fact if I had let the video play longer on resumption then there likely would have been an error, because my latest testing, which is based on a Logged in user accessing the video being played by FV, the video was:
– Pause and Resume in 15 minutes – with a Network Error
Then I refreshed the page and:
– Pause and Resume in 53 minutes – with a Network Error

And this time I have included the DevTools window with the Network Error at https://www.screencast.com/t/k7QtiXSDT2QS

Also, in reading through the CDN post I do not see that this applies to my situation as I am hosting my site at a single located near within the GTA at http://wpcloud.ca

Please let me know what the next step is in troubleshooting this problem.

I just noticed that the Subdomain has not yet been updated to WordPress version 4.9.1 whereas the Root domain must already be updated to that version.

Could the problem be that your Upgrade processing is not compatible with version 4.9.1????

Here are the test results based on a Logged in User, rather than an Admin accessing the video:
– Paused video and resumed after 14 minutes – No Problem
– Paused video and resumed after 21 minutes – Network Error displayed

Here’s a screen shot of the video page and the DevTools content, although I’m not sure what Dev content you’d want to see — https://www.screencast.com/t/vvXtEi1RY

Let me know what else I can do, including providing you access to the website, if that’s the next step, and I would need a private message to you to provide login access.

PS: Also, I really do not like what is displayed on the Error, as can be seen at https://www.screencast.com/t/zMzG4zwi6

This is “way to open” to abuse, especially if the video is a Public Video, your display of the full url is inviting “unauthorized sharing” — Could something be done where the Full URL is logged in a place that an Admin could view it, and perhaps on the Error Message give a reference to that Log instance?

Yes, I used the domain key at the link given, and that obviously caused me to go nowhere in terms of getting updated to Pro.

I cannot see anything at http://screenshots.foliovision.com/1H0S1m3o1e25 — it’s a blank screen.

I have read through the document on FV use with Protected S3 videos and cannot find anything that addresses the issue I’m experiencing — see it here https://foliovision.com/player/video-hosting/secure-amazon-s3-guide

HELP PLEASE — IT TRULY SEEMS THAT THE FV PLAYER CANNOT BE USED WITH PROTECTED S3 VIDEOS IF THE VIDEOS ARE PAUSED.

So I placed two video players accessing the same video on the same pg:
1. Was accessing the video via FV plugin player
2. The other was accessing it using the S3 Flow Shield plugin player

I started playing the video using each player and then paused them both. I then resume playback approximately 1 hour later, with results…
1. The FV player resumed play and within a few seconds gave the Network Error message
2. The S3 Flow Shield player resumed playback without any Error being displayed.

I then had the idea to check the buffer of the video for each player and what I found has been documented in this video https://www.screencast.com/t/AKMqXLZH

As a result of what I’ve discovered, the Network Error problem would appear to be caused by the fact that the video stops loading with the FV player when the video is paused, whereas the S3 Flow Shield player keeps loading the video even after the pause.

As a result, when the FV playback is resumed, as soon as the player runs out of video that was loaded to its buffer it then attempts to retrieve more video, but by then the link to the S3 video has expired and thus the Network Error is displayed.

So the question is — Does FV player allow for a non-stop loading of the video buffer even if the video is paused?

OK, after searching I found this License info https://www.screencast.com/t/6aJBcJioD

So the plugin should be valid on both root and subdomains. However, for some reason after activating it on the subdomain, it’s not activating on the root domain.

Any ideas why?

So, I’ve tried accessing my videos using FV after logging in as a user, rather than an Admin. And here’s what happened:
– I paused the video; waited 6 minutes to resume play and it was OK
– I paused the video; waited 34 minutes to resume play and I then got the “HTML5: Network Error” message and All of the gorgy details that I do not want a user to see (as mentioned above).

The FV AWS S3 Settings I have are:
– Default Expiration Time [minutes] = 5
– Force the default expiration time: DISABLED
– Amazon S3 Ajax (Pro): ENABLED (to improve AWS S3 Security???)

I’ll try DISABLING the Ajax setting and see if that changes anything —
But, does anyone have any idea what may be causing this, and how to fix it?

Thank you!

So when I do settle on a Domain, is the plugin immediately available to download for it?

I don’t see any timestamps being displayed on the secondary timeline. Not sure what this is intended to do?

Would very much appreciate receiving an update to this post with a solution as soon as is possible. Thanks!