Hello Alex,

our DRM text feature is described here: https://foliovision.com/player/securing-your-video/protecting-videos-with-drm-text

We prefer to add only the settings which are necessary. Perhaps we could just add a setting to make the DRM text visible a bit longer rather than adding all the colors, text size and duration.

Please let us know what exactly is your goal.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello JP,

please double check that you have the version 7.4.15.727. It shoud really fix that sizing issue.

Android and iOS both work on my test site and foliovision.com. We will see if there is some specific issue in your case and if we can make a general fix for it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello JP,

it seems that when FV Player VAST inserts that ad, it’s unable to properly detect the player dimension. It appears that it’s related to the JavaScript code in your theme. Could you please try to switch your website to some default WordPress theme to see if the issue is present also there? WordPress also lets you preview different themes easily these days – without having to really switch the theme.

I can see the bug with the resume button and will get it fixed next. It doesn’t appear on my test site and on foliovision.com as the ads are sized properly on it. But in edge case like yours it’s indeed a problem.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Giulio,

is the issue happening in Google Chrome? Starting with version 80 Google Chrome automatically loads any videos on a https:// website using https://. More information about that can be found here: https://venturebeat.com/2020/02/04/google-chrome-80/

So if you link to a video using http:// Chrome will load it with https:// to keep the site secure. However if the domain where it’s linked from doesn’t have https:// properly configure it will fail to play.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Seorim,

the subtitle activation improvement will be part of the new FV Player release.

If you want to give it try faster, you can reinstall FV Player from this link: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/master.zip To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player plugin you are using. WordPress will warn you that you might loose settings and data, but it’s not the case with our plugin, no settings now videos will be lost. Or you can just replace the plugin files via FTP.

I still have to discuss the CC button highlight with Alec.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Allyn,

it’s true that https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/pM1EE0Islso doesn’t set any cookies, but the video won’t play either.

Here’s a code where somebody was trying to use that domain with the YouTube Player API (that’s what FV Player Pro uses for YouTube) and while it plays the cookies are still being set: https://jsfiddle.net/8aebp5zt/50/

Thanks,
Martin

Hello hentaipulse,

so the suggestion remains – I could be using a CDN for your videos, as linking to other websites can cause issues. Or at least host these videos on your own website and double-check your web host doesn’t mind that. Some hosts with cheaper hosting plans might not like it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Brian,

please let us know more about the issues you are facing. Does it also occur when you preview your website with a default WordPress template?

What do you mean by the player menu? Is that he playlist menu in the player controlbar?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Paul,

I see the issue with the wide image you are running into. However the lightbox size can be different from the splash size on the page: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/using-lightbox#setting-dimensions Doesn’t that fix the issue for you?

Actually I found that the video width and height it not saving, so we will fix that.

The lightbox feature is in the free FV Player.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello binson119,

it’s true, FV Player Pay Per View only works with single videos.

We can improve it so that once you purchase the video you will get access to the whole playlist. Please let us know.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Giulio,

do you mean that the issue starts when you enable these FV Player Pro Video pre-roll ads?

Please let us know what format do you use for the actual video. Perhaps there is a combination of pre-roll video type and the main video type that doesn’t work well, although we didn’t had such reports for a long time.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello William,

WPMobile Plugin developer said:

The app have this user-agent: WPMobile.App – Android

Even if I load the website with this user-agent without loading the app interface I get this error:
html5: Unsupported video format. Try installing Adobe Flash.

So that’s the issue which I was fixing and it did help. Please try to use that “WPMobile.App – Android” to play the video on https://foliovision.com/ and let us know if it won’t work for you. If you are not sure about the user agent change, you can kindly ask WPMobile developer to have a look again. Perhaps he will have another hint too.

Other than that, there might be some caching issue in play. Are you perhaps stripping the query string versions? Here’s why you shouldn’t be doing that – you might be still getting the old FV Player script: https://foliovision.com/2017/06/wordpress-cdn-best-practices

To diagnose that issue you can also try to enable SCRIPT_DEBUG in your WordPress: https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Seorim,

we will discuss these issues in our team.

What we are going to fix first will be the subtitle activation – if you enable subtitles in middle of a subtitle line, it won’t show up until another line comes up. That should be improved.

The transcript button also get a highlight if it’s enabled, I wonder if we shouldn’t have that for all the buttons – highlight “CC” if you have selected some subtitles, highlight the video quality button if you have selected some quality and it’s not in Auto mode etc.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello dplum,

we tried everything we could to get rid of that Picture In Picture button in Firefox, including disablePictureInPicture which the recommend on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/video

But it just wouldn’t work. Perhaps Firefox needs to start supporting that disablePictureInPicture attribute first.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello rhys,

we tested with z dozen of videos and unfortunately run into that same issue multiple times.

It seems Bitchute sometimes checks the referrer and sometimes it does not and we haven’t found a way to predict that.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Daniele,

adding a setting to enable that periodic video position saving would be just confusing.

We prefer to improve our plugin in general rather than add in more settings for programmers to tweak. If there is some old browser which needs this, let us know and we can enable it for that one.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Eric,

thank you for the bug report, please upgrade to FV Antispam 2.4.3 released just now.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Tio,

we disabled that autoplay function (that #fvp part of URL is handled by the FV Player Video Link feature which works that way) please reinstall from https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/11248518-embed-item-position-module-rework.zip again and the issue will be fixed.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andrew,

thank you for the cooperation. We had a look at it and in the future FV Player Pro version the FV Player Pro Quality Switching won’t break the HLS stream quality switching. Instead it will stay disabled on HLS videos.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello tbtnoas,

sorry about the delay in my reply, this ticket got lost. We were in touch with AMP for WP developers though.

FV Player in AMP doesn’t differ from the basic WordPress video player as AMP won’t let you use any custom JavaScript. So we have to stick to a basic HTML5 video tag.

What shortcode did you use when you got that “Admin JavaScript warning:” error in AMP? If you are using the FV Player Database then please export the player from the wp-admin -> FV Player screen.

Cloudflare Stream is billed by the minutes watched, did you compare that pricing to other CDNs? Please let us know if you calculations indicate it’s worth it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Reza,

if you know a bit of JavaScript you can call

flowplayer().unload()

on the event which occurs as your modal is closing.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Tio,

please reinstall from https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/11248518-embed-item-position-module-rework.zip and the issue will be fixed.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Randy,

new release of FV Player Pro Beta will feature Video Ads in wp-admin -> FV Player menu.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Edward,

thank you for the feedback.

It works that way on purpose – if you scroll down to switch chapters, it won’t scroll back to the player if a part of it (at least 100 pixels vertically) is still visible. The reason is that you can still see the player and see that it has switched to playing some other part of video. If it’s totally out of sight, then it’s more important to scroll to it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello rhys,

I mean is that video has sharing disabled on Bitchute. I checked a couple and haven’t notice any message like that, so I wonder what makes that video not work.

Hello Reginald,

let us know if you run into any video which won’t work, as rhys did report issues with one of the videos.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello rhys,

please let us know if you had a chance to test the FV Player version with Bitchute support which I posted above.

It seems Lbry.tv could be supported as well, I’ll check it out with Alec.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Reginald,

just FV Player, Bitchute will probably by supported in the free plugin.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Tio,

I wouldn’t recommend hosting your videos on archive.org. It’s not a video streaming service. These videos never load for me, perhaps they don’t load for a lot of people and I imagine it must be slow too.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Tio,

it seems FV Player is not active on that page, please let us know what exact embed code you are getting.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Edward,

FV Player Pro 7.4.15.727.beta is out and it fixes this issue. You will have to use the Beta version to get this fix, here’s how to get it: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta

Thanks,
Martin

Hello CXL,

FV Player Pro 7.4.15.727 is out and it fixes this issue.

The issue was not running the unit tests on the Release version of the plugin, only Beta where these changes were made first. Thank you for your recommendation, I’m trying out phpstan.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Tio,

you are right, here is the correct link: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/11248518-embed-item-position-module-rework.zip

Sorry about that.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello dplum,

the note which you are asking about reads:

Vimeo video security improvements when using Turbocharge Ajax Vimeo loading

Since that feature doesn’t cache video information in database, but in bare files it was previously possible to find these files on one of the website folders – if the webserver was allowing directory listings by default, which is rare case.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Jeongseung,

FV Player does the automated quality switching on it but there is a button to pick the quality by hand too.

What you need to really protect your videos is the encryption. With FV Player Coconut it will be simple – thanks to the amazing Coconut.co video encoding (and encryption) service which it integrates.

Cloudfront can only block referrers or check the URL signature.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Calvin,

it does increase the video protection.

On the other hand if you get hundreds of video plays every minute you should be double checking that your website doesn’t slow down, as these Ajax request are not cached.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bruno,

so in your video did you play the video and then tapped that fullscreen button and nothing ever happened?

Then you start scrolling the page and the video stays in a single position and everything scrolls except the video, which can be seen through the player viewport.

That looks like some CSS bug. It seems the video actually is in the fullscreen, but it renders “behind” the website. That would explain why the video doesn’t move as you scroll.

I see it appears for you in both Firefox and Chrome. What Android version you are using? No issues when using Chrome on Android 5.1.1 and 9 on my end.

It seems to me you might be blocking the HTML5 fullscreen feature in your browsers in some way – although at a glance I didn’t find such setting. Please check if you can get the fullscreen to work properly on our homepage video: https://foliovision.com/

But the good news is that it’s not caused by AdBlock anymore.

Thanks,
Martin

If you don’t see the update available, please make sure you are on the Beta version: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta

If your WordPress didn’t find the update yet, you can download it by hand from https://foliovision.com/my-licenses

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Jeongseung,

FV Player Pro 7.4.13.727 is out and it fixes thase bad AWS S3 signatures for different video qualities with MP4.

I’m not sure why the 1080p video would run into any issue with that S3 Ajax option.

Video Downloader Plus doesn’t seem to be as powerful as Video DownloadHelper. But both can download an MP4 video, even if it has the URL signature added to it. The encrypted HLS with FV Player Pro provides does stop it though.

Which demo pages did you test on?

I should add that the main point in adding the URL signature is to stop other websites from hotlinking your videos.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Will,

how do you display that ACF field? Did you create a custom template in PHP? Then a code like this will make it work in FV Player:

echo do_shortcode( "[fvplayer src='".$youtube_link."']"); 

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Jeongseung,

it seems the signature is only calculated once and then used for all the video qualities. That is incorrect of course.

We will get it fixed to calculate a new signature for each video quality.

This issue didn’t occur to use as we use the S3 Ajax option: foliovision.com/2017/04/download-link-with-simple-history-tracking#amazon-s3-ajax

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Calvin,

it seems the signature is only calculated once and then used for all the video qualities. That is incorrect of course.

We will get it fixed to calculate a new signature for each video quality.

This issue didn’t occur to use as we use the S3 Ajax option: https://foliovision.com/2017/04/download-link-with-simple-history-tracking#amazon-s3-ajax

Thanks,
Martin

I’m sorry, it’s actually “Playlist Item Titles”, not just “Titles”. I guess we should name it “Video Title”

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Paul,

if the video has a splash screen, it already looks like an image – the splash screen is the image. It’s the default mode of operation.

If you would like to remove the play button from top of it, you can use CSS like this:

.flowplayer.lightbox-starter .fp-ui > .fp-play {
    display: none;
}

Remember to read the introduction from our guide too: https://foliovision.com/player/advanced/css-tips-and-fixes

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Richard,

here’s what you sent with the video checker:

Mime Type: video/mp4
Format: avc1
Duration: 00:40:53.84
Bitrate: 9389 kb/s
Video:
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (Main), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 8992 kb/s, 50 fps, 50 tbr, 50 tbn, 50 tbc (default)
handler_name : Video Media Handler
Audio:
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 384 kb/s (default)
Moov position: 1643154

I was able to reproduce the issue on iPhone 11 Pro Max with iOS 13.2.

I downloaded your video and tried to play it in the Safari browser directly, so no FV Player was involved. I could see that it did the following range requests to play the file:

0-1/2879929551
0-2879929550/2879929551
983040-2879929550/2879929551
101053-983039/2879929551
1084088-2879929550/2879929551

The first one is a request for first 2 bytes only, then it tries to load full file except the last byte, then it starts to load at about 1 MB, then 100 kB, then 1 MB again and then it just fails to play it.

For some other MP4 file which works properly it only does that 0-1 request and then it goes after the full file (except the last byte again).

It all looks to me like it’s trying to find some specific data in the file, like the moov meta data which should be at the start of the file. By IT I mean the iPhone core HTML5 video playback engine. Moov is the part of file which tells the video decoder what kind of video it is.

So it seems that since the moov position is at 1643154 byte (about 1.6MB) it just fails to find it – all these range requests start at 1 MB or below. If it’s some kind of limitation of iOS 13, then we need to adjust our video checker to give red warnings when it sees moov in such high position. But I didn’t find any note about that on the whole internet.

When using iOS 12.3.1 it also runs into the same issues. That one seems to scan the file with range requests up until position of 1703935 (above the moov position in your file) but still fails to play.

iOS 11.3 also won’t play and is closer to iOS 13.2

When playing in Chrome on PC it loads the first 2 MB before doing anything else, so it gets that moov safely.

The thing about moov is (at least that’s what I remember) that its position also depends on the video length (or at least in some cases). So please check if you are able to play a shorter video which was encoded the same way.

Also, I recommend your try to encode that same video file (the high quality original) using Handbrake, instructions can be found here: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/encoding#encoding-samples I wonder if you would also get such hight moov position there.

We are also finishing the new plugin which encodes the videos for you right within your WordPress admin dashboard using the Coconut service. That makes the video publishing much more convenient – using the HLS streaming format which is the gold standard of the online video.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Edward,

so far the host only admitted there is some disruption in traffic from some areas in Russia to some of their datacenters. It appears that traffic has been blocked at some other point in the Internet, which is beyond their control.

So hopefully they figure it out.

If you like computers and know how to use some utilities and want to help you can run MTR. Here’s a full guide to it, but if you are using Windows, it actually has a graphical user interface which is not too hard: https://www.linode.com/docs/networking/diagnostics/diagnosing-network-issues-with-mtr/

Thanks,
Martin

Hello dplum,

it seems you are using FV Player Pro 0.9.14, while the latest version is 7.4.9.727. Please upgrade to that. If you don’t see the upgrade available, download FV Player Pro from https://foliovision.com/my-licenses

Thanks,
Martin

Hello fiweh4lf,

what you sent looks like a custom programming projects. I just read though it and I’m not sure how we could make that a core functionality which would be beneficial for more users.

If you want to create dynamic playlist which play related videos after each video, then I would have some other suggestions on that –

Let’s say that you have posted 10 different posts with 10 different videos. So you have 10 posts in wp-admin -> Posts and 10 players in wp-admin -> FV Player.

So when you have category “Sport” with posts 1,5,6,7,10 in it and you are viewing post 10, it wouldn’t be a problem to add code to append the videos from player associated with these other players to it.

Let’s assume that the player IDs in these posts are the same as the post IDs, you could just use:

[fvplayer id="10,7,6,5,1"] to get a playlist of all videos posted in these articles.

Does any of that make any sense, or did I miss your point completely?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Bruno,

it works for me. Please try to clear your browser cache, although it shouldn’t be the case, as we did change the plugin version number which is part of the JavaScript URL.

I was using Chrome 79 with AdBlock 4.1.0 on macOS 10.12.6.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Edward,

it runs on VPS.

I don’t see any trace of that IP in logs.

I’m contacting support.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Reginald,

we did that on purpose to make sure you only get fields which you need when posting a single video. That field appears once you actually start building a playlist.

Thanks,
Martin