Hello Lorran,

this is a bigger customization and requires some PHP skills:

If you want to generate the user info dynamically, then you can put it in via the fv_flowplayer_ad_html or fv_flowplayer_inner_html filter documented here: https://foliovision.com/player/api-programming

If you use the fv_flowplayer_ad_html filter, it will show up in a box which can be customized in the Settings -> FV Worpdress Flowplayer -> Ads section and you will also have to enter ad=”something” into the [fvplayer] shortcode to make sure it’s initialized.

If you use fv_flowplayer_inner_html, then you have to put in position: absolute on the resulting div to make it visible.

The most advanced solution would be to plug your PHP script into the subtitles attribute: https://foliovision.com/player/subtitles It would have to be php script on the server which would generate the required output.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Amanda,

sorry about the delay, could you please use our video checker to report the exact video which is not playing? Here’s how you enable and use our video checker: https://foliovision.com/player/faq#properties-built-checker-report-playing

Thanks,
Martin

Hi Samik,

let’s compare FV WordPress Flowplayer 2.2.22 and 2.3. Please let us know which one of these plays on your Windows Mobile Phone:

http://lifeinamovie.com/h/wmp1.html
http://lifeinamovie.com/h/wmp2.html

Thank you for your input!

Martin

Hi Samik,

please send us URLs to your file, then we can figure out what could be breaking the playback – it might be an encoding issue or an issue with our player.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello AdHocMediaSolutions,

if you want to join our FV Player VAST beta testing, please purchase our FV Flowplayer license and we will give you a test license: https://foliovision.com/player/download

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Thomas,

thank you for your input on this!

Could you please let us know what Firefox version you are using?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello elja,

so the permalinks of WP Job Manager now work when you create a new posts category (that’s when FV Top Level Categories flushes the rules), but the permalinks of WP Job Manager – Company Profiles get broken?

I had a look and the “WP Job Manager – Company Profiles” plugin class gets initialized on init. That’s quite unusual.

Could you please re-do the tweak form one of my posts above? https://foliovision.com/support/fv-top-level-categories/bug-reports/conflict-with-other-plugin#post-4022 Then try to add some post category and see if the WP Job Manager – Company Profiles pages still work and let us know. It helped on my test site.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello majorpakz,

thank you for the details.

The video player is supposed to be the original player from YouTube (that’s the basic embed code) – unless you have a FV Flowplayer license. Entering the license key will auto-install our Pro extension which then allows YouTube playback in the customized player.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello all,

we support both VAST and VPAID now: https://foliovision.com/player/demos/vast-vpaid-ads

Thanks,
Martin

Hello rehan007,

FV Player VAST is a separate addon for FV WordPress Flowplayer. It adds support for both VAST and VPAID ads in pre-roll or mid-roll.

Hello AdHocMediaSolutions,

let us know if you are interested in beta testing of our plugin. It’s easy to use, the documentation is on our list of things to do.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello rehan007,

1) We are behind on finishing the custom pre-roll video ads. Thank you for the suggestion about a skip button.

2) You can check our integration with both VAST and VPAID ads here. The ad codes used in the demo also provide the skip button: https://foliovision.com/player/demos/vast-ads

It’s done using FV Player VAST which is currently in beta testing, let us know if you are interested.

3) Custom skins – currently we only support the color settings. We tweaked the original skip created by Flowplayer.org, so it would be quite a bit of work to support all the skins.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Greg,

1) we just released FV WordPress Flowplayer 2.3 which might fix the issue first issue.

2) Do you see the same display bug here? There are two videos at the very bottom: https://foliovision.com/player/how-to-use-vimeo-pro

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Daryl,

we promised we will add this feature at the start of this month, but we are only caught up with our work now, so we will work on adding it now.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Yoshi,

please see what our video checker has to say about the video and then “Send it to Foliovision”. Here’s hot the video checker is enabled: https://foliovision.com/player/faq#properties-built-checker-report-playing

Thanks,
Martin

Hello elja,

I’m not sure what connections do you mean, but it sounds like you have to use the older version of WP Job Manager for your site to function properly, as other plugins might be conflicting with the new version.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Michael,

1) the URL to the MP4 needs to work in your browser (unless it’s a RTMP stream which is not going through HTTP; of course the handling of the file type might depend on what browser you use). I can’t get any of this to load:

‘http://thedurhamcorporation.com/CCNA_Security_Certification_Overview.mp4’
‘http://thedurhamcorporation.com/CCNA_Security_Certification_Overview.m4v’

Let’s not worry about this for now and see what our video checker reports (number 3 below).

2) regarding the “Check template” warning about html5.js, could you please follow the link it contains and then let us know if you have any questions?

3) Front-end video checker – actually it’s named “Disable admin video checker” and it’s in “Sitewide Flowplayer Defaults” group of Settings -> FV WordPress Flowplayer. Thank you for pointing out the mistake.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Michael,

thank you for your question. MP4 will play in around three quarters of browsers. It won’t play in Opera, Mac Firefox and any Linux (or opensource) browser. You need a WebM video or user needs Flash plugin to play that. FLV format absolutely requires the Flash plugin. I wonder how we can put these basic HTML5 video rules into a drawing, as we often explain this to our users.

The URL for your MP4 file doesn’t work: http://thedurhamcorporation.com/CCNA_Security_Certification_Overview.mp4

Please fix that and then use our video checker to report any playback issues: http://foliovision.com/player/faq#properties-built-checker-report-playing

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Janfeng,

I’m happy that you are making some progress.

Regarding the warning – saving the plugin options should fix that. Please let us know if it doesn’t.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello elja,

could you please upgrade WP Job Manager to 1.14.0 for start?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Janfeng,

I suggest you check some PHP tutorials. You need to add global $post; at the start of your function and you need to remove the “<? echo and ?>” parts from the assignment (which I illustrated in my previous post).

You should also handle the case if there are no custom fields for “shop-video” and “shop-img”.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello janfeng,

you got the idea, but you should improve your PHP skills. It should go like this, you can’t use <?php if you already are in PHP block:

$content = do_shortcode(“[fvplayer src=".get_post_meta(....)."]“).$content;

And you are also missing global $post; at the start of the function.

We are happy to help you further with your coding, just let us know what project you are working on and what are the specs.

Thanks,
Martin

Hell elja,

we had a look at your issue. Can you edit the FV Top Level Categories code as following?

Change this line:

add_action(‘init’, ‘fv_top_level_categories_permastruct’);

To following:

add_action(‘init’, ‘fv_top_level_categories_permastruct’, 999);

Could you please then report back if that solved your issue?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Greg,

1) could you please let us know what Windows phone are you using with what version of Windows Mobile?

2) do you mean that the video container doesn’t fit into your mobile screen?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Steve,

please use our video checker to report issues with your video, here’s how it’s done: http://foliovision.com/player/faq#properties-built-checker-report-playing

I’ve seen jerky playback of videos in Google Chrome on Windows. It’s likely caused by the video decoding acceleration provided by your graphics card. That means it’s a browser bug, but we would still like to check your video in detail.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Lise,

yes, it works on iPad, but not in iPhone. You can check it out here: https://foliovision.com/player/demos/youtube-embedding

For iPhone, you really have to encode the subtitles into the MP4 file. Notice, that the first YouTube video on the above page features this kind of subtitles (it can be enabled), so there might be a way of doing this on YouTube.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello speedys,

we just released version 2.2.22 which fixes you issue. It was caused by a change in WordPress 4.0 editor CSS.

Regarding the “members only” video – we recommend that you use your membership plugin to provide different post content to logged in members. Best if you use it together with CloudFront signed URLs to avoid hot-linking to your videos: https://foliovision.com/player/demos/cloudfront-download-protection

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Miguel,

this is related to a Firefox bug as I mentioned above.

Here’s a workaround which will allow you to prefer Flash for Firefox only. By using Flash, the Firefox bug won’t occur (and the audio will sound normal), although you will loose the ability to seek into un-buffered parts of the video. But at least it will only affect Firefox.

Put this code at the start of your footer.php file (it needs to go before PHP block with wp_footer() in it):

<script>
if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf(‘firefox’) > -1) {
jQuery(‘.flowplayer’).attr(‘data-engine’,’flash’);
}
</script>

We will fix the RTMP protected URLs support.

Thanks
Martin

Hello Miguel,

new version of core Flowplayer includes fixes for Android full-screen mode. We should be able to incorporate these fixes at the start of next week.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Sharon,

it looks like a problem with one of the extensions. Could you please try some other browser and see if you see the same problem with missing login button?

Also, is your site using HTTPS? I double-checked that our plugin works with that and doesn’t remove the HTTPS from the form action.

Thanks,
Martin

Hi Sharon,

could you please follow step 3. here to see if you are getting any JavaScript errors? http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Your_Browser_to_Diagnose_JavaScript_Errors#Step_3:_Diagnosis

I tried to install NextGen Gallery together with FV Antispam, but I’m not seeing any issues. Perhaps there is some other plugin in the play.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello techgyrl,

thank you for your interest in our plugin.

If you buy our license, you can embed YouTube and Vimeo videos directly:

https://foliovision.com/2014/07/playing-youtube-videos
https://foliovision.com/player/how-to-use-vimeo-pro

This is however not supported for Daily Motion videos right now, although it’s on our list of things to do. We are currently in process of fixing some other bugs (quality switching) for our existing licensed users.

If you have a project where you need this feature, we can talk about putting Daily Motion support near the top of our list, if you can buy a bigger license or a donation.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Miguel,

yes, it’s normal as Flash doesn’t support HTTP range requests.

This can be solved by using RTMP, however we currently don’t support download protection for that. We worked on fixing it, but it needs to be fully tested first.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Miguel,

thank you for posting URL for your videos. I had a look and I’m noticing issues with audio speed in Firefox (version 31.0 on OS X 10.9.1 and also version 30.0 on Windows 7). Video stopping during quality switching in not occurring however.

We are having a look at the video encoding. I’m noticing this is a known bug in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=875644

If you set it to prefer Flash, then at least users with Flash installed wouldn’t get into this issue.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Miguel,

we will keep the video private as well, we won’t publish your URLs, so no worries, you can send it to us.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Lance,

I’m leaving for a week of vacation, so I’ll be able to add this feature at the start of September.

If you know enough PHP you could put up a filter on the_content with high priority, where you would change the HTML of the lightbox image link to show up as an image, but it would be too tricky for a quick fix.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Miguel,

this might be related to the video acceleration. Could you please post us the full data you get on this URL in your Chrome? chrome://gpu/

If your Chrome doesn’t smooth out the edges of artifacts in video (deblocking filter), can you check if you encoded your video with “Fast decode” option? We usually don’t enable it for faster decoding on mobile.

This can also happen if you have another window open in your OS which plays some video, even though it’s covered by your Chrome browser. There seems to be a bug in the video rendering in HTML5 in Chrome in some scenarios. IE 11 has similar issues as well.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Miquel,

I’m leaving for a week of vacation, so I’ll be able to fix any bugs and help you troubleshoot the issues at start of September.

Thank you for summing up the issues, I’ll make sure we address each in a separate thread and provide some quick troubleshooting steps now.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Miguel,

we will have to improve this to automatically select he lowest quality for mobile devices – your Android phone is probably trying to play the HD video.

You can try posting your mobile quality video into a standalone player and see if that one works. It would be also good to know if that one will play in Safari. That would answer the question if this is related to the quality switching or the video encoding.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Miguel,

if you could use our Video checker from within your Safari, that would be great as we would see your video encoding as well as your Safari version and OS. Here’s how to use it: http://foliovision.com/player/faq#properties-built-checker-report-playing

Please note that this information is kept private.

A test URL where we can see the video would be even more helpful.

Otherwise I’m not sure what could be the problem – Safari should play your MP4 using HTML5 engine perfectly fine, just like Chrome. If it plays for you when you force Flash mode in Safari, that suggests that there is indeed an encoding issue. If it doesn’t play for you in Chrome and Firefox in Flash mode, are you sure you have Flash enabled?

If it played in classic Flowplayer, that one uses Flash, so there still might be some HTML5 incompatibility with your video. I’m not sure about jwPlayer though, we use the same HTML5 engine as that one (it relies on browser), although it could be using Flash without you knowing it.

The clip around the edges of your 1500k clip suggest that your video aspect ration might be different on that one.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Miguel,

here’s my test of quality switching with CloudFront signed URLs (see the second video on the page): https://foliovision.com/player/demos/flowplayer-quality-switching

There was a bug which prevented this from working when there were + symbols in the file name (Amazon S3 and CloudFront uses that instead of empty spaces) in Flash engine (required by Firefox on Mac, as it won’t play MP4 natively).

We fixed this bug and released FV Player Pro 0.1.10, you should upgrade to it.

If you could post your file URL here (just the URL, no need for any keys, we also won’t publish it), we can check if there are any issues with that. But I’m surprised that it doesn’t work for your in Safari, as that one plays MP4 natively.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Miguel,

you need to open the PEM file in any text editor (preferably Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on Mac).

Regarding the “Mobile”, “SD”, “HD” labels – please check step 3. of our quality switching guide: https://foliovision.com/player/switch-video-quality

For your site it should be:

_500k,Mobile
_1500K,SD
_2500K,HD

Are you sure the 500k has “k” in lower case and the rest in upper case?

Regarding RTMP – unfortunately this one doesn’t work with the private keys, we are working on fixing the bug.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello David,

iDevices can play HLS in HTML5 as they have a built-in HLS capability. So this extra engine would be used for PC users only.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Alex,

your solution works, but it will break with the first plugin upgrade.

We can put in a WP filter hook for this phrase, so then you could be changing it using an addon plugin. That would be a much more elegant solution.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello David,

the system with providing a time limited URL (we support it for both Amazon S3 and CloudFront) is as secure as it gets in HTML5. Both Vimeo and YouTube use the same approach to protect the videos.

HTML5 doesn’t really support content encryption, but you can get it in HLS streams which are supported only on iDevices. However then you also need a RTMP stream (which plays in Flash) for rest of the users, which is at least hard to download as it’s a proprietary protocol.

We could also look for a chromeless Flash player for HLS format and integrate it in our plugin, but it would be quite a bit of work.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Alex,

could you please delete and reinstall the plugin? I included a fix for this in the existing version and if it works for you, we can release it as a new version.

It hides the WP admin bar when entering fullscreen and then shows it again upon exit. It works perfectly in my IE11.

Currently the native fullscreen in IE11 is not supported, but it should be fixed in next version of core Flowplayer.

Thanks
Martin

Hello Alex,

thank you for your interest in our plugin!

You can disable the switching by adding a line of CSS into your mobile theme (or your main theme if it’s responsive):

p.fv-flowplayer-mobile-switch { display: none }

Mobile support is very important. Quality Switching works better in our FV Player Pro extension which is available for licensed users (although we need to improve our mobile user detection in there). FV Player Pro also allows you to play videos of Vimeo and YouTube and these detect mobile users automatically (here I must say that YouTube plays on older mobile much better than Vimeo).

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Dennis,

sorry about the delay. It appears that qTranslate is currently struggling to add support for WordPress 3.9. That puts us into a difficult position, as we have our clients who use this plugin and it’s also supported with FV Simpler SEO. But unless the core qTranslate plugin gets fixed, there is not much we can do.

Thanks
Martin

Hello viral,

thank you for your interest in our plugin!

There must be some other issue with your user which can’t comment. Do you mean that it goes into trash automatically? Perhaps his name is also on the blacklist. You can try de-activating our plugin and ask the user to comment to make sure there is no issue with our plugin. Are you using any antispam plugin?

I see that the editors don’t get all the permissions they should. We will fix this issue. If you need this issue resolved with priority, we are happy to do so if you order our pro support. If you know PHP, then you can try to fix it in fv_tc::frontend() where the permissions are checked.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Chan,

on our test page, the video was streamed in RTMP and HLS. So Chrome was using Flash to play the RTMP stream as it doesn’t play HLS.

I had a look in Windows XP with IE7 and the video played smoothly. We have a separate support ticket where we noticed that Windows XP with IE7 is indeed slow to play videos on your particular site, so there must be some CSS conflict.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello volcano,

I’m not sure what could be causing the above error. Perhaps your post HTML includes some item form widgets.wp.com. Could you please check if you get the same error when writing a new post? Are you using JetPack?

Thanks,
Martin