Hello,

if you have too many video on the page which are being checked, an issue like this might arise as the server might take longer to respond. We are re-working the video checker, so this will be improved.

In the meantime we put in a fix into the current version 2.2.3, so if you just re-install it from WordPress.org, you will get the fix.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Mateusz,

thank you for the suggestion, we will discuss this in our team.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andrew,

we released version 2.2.3 which includes this feature (although the styling might need some tweaks at this point). Please let us know if there is anything else.

Thanks,
Martin

Hi Kevin,

could you please provide a working link for your video file?

There must be something wrong with one of your video stream. Perhaps it’s using yuv encoding. You can just re-encode it with a free software called Handbrake: http://foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/encoding

Thanks,
Martin

Hi Mateusz,

I see, that’s an interesting request.

We hope to release a new version tomorrow, so we will include your feature in it. Simply adding logo=”{your path}” to the [fvplayer] shortcode will change the logo. If you leave it empty, no logo will appear. Of course this will only work for licensed users.

Thanks again for the suggestion!

Martin

Hello David,

clicking the center of the video pauses the video.

We will be adding options to enable a play/pause button on the player control bar though.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello caderial,

it appears you are using Ajax loading of your page content. Unfortunately that won’t work without additional coding as Flowplayer checks for videos once it’s loaded, but not if content changes.

So you have two options:

1) Set that page to load without Ajax.

2) Create a callback for your Ajax which triggers Flowplayer, using the play() or load() method (see our API documentation).

That would also require “Load FV Flowplayer JS everywhere” plugin option turned on.

Thanks,
Martin

Hi exploreRPG,

could you please post the shortcode you are using?

As your video checker says, AVI is not a compatible video format. Is that the actual video format, or is that just the extension?

Make sure you tried MP4 format with h264 video stream.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Pilkster,

please check our FAQ: http://foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/faq#create-temporary-analysis-admin-checker

Without downloading the video file temporarily we are not able to report video issues to admin users.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Matthew,

I checked your HTML and I’m not sure what could go wrong there. It doesn’t seem that your HTML is properly adjusted by our plugin. It actually doesn’t look like our plugin at all. Are you still using FV Antispam?

Other than that:

1) Are you using Akismet as well to combat the human-made spam? FV Antispam works best against hard core spam bots.

2) Did you modify your template in any way? Particularly the comment form functions.

3) Is your template using comment_form() to show the comment form?

We will be happy to help you fix the issue right on your website, if you support our open-source endeavors by purchasing our pro support.

Thanks
Martin

Hello Docfxit,

1) the easiest way of editing your template style.css is yoursite.com/wp-admin -> Appearance -> Editor. It will say “Stylesheet (style.css)” in the title and you will be allowed to add any extra CSS rules at the end of the file. Be careful though, it’s best if you have experience with CSS already. More on this topic can be found on WordPress.org: https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Editor_Screen

2) Yes, we tried exactly that Windows 7 with Firefox 28. No issues. It’s weird, but we keep a log of all the failed entries, so we will have another look.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Docfxit,

sorry about the confusion, here’s what’s correct, I forgot to update the article:

[‘Cut’,’Copy’,’Paste’,’foliopress-paste’,’Bold’,’Italic’,’RemoveFormat’,
‘OrderedList’,’UnorderedList’,’Outdent’,’Indent’,’Blockquote’,’Link’,’Unlink’,’Anchor’,
‘foliopress-more’,’kfmBridge’,’Source’,’FitWindow’,’DocProps’,’Save’,
‘NewPage’,’Preview’,’Templates’,’PasteText’,’PasteWord’,’Print’,’SpellCheck’,
‘Undo’,’Redo’,’Find’,’Replace’,’SelectAll’,’Form’,’Checkbox’,’Radio’,’TextField’],
[‘Textarea’,’Select’,’Button’,’ImageButton’,’HiddenField’,’Underline’,’StrikeThrough’,
‘Subscript’,’Superscript’,’JustifyLeft’,’JustifyCenter’,’JustifyRight’,’JustifyFull’,’Image’,
‘Flash’,’FVWPFlowplayer’,’Table’,’Rule’,’Smiley’,’SpecialChar’,’foliopress-next’,’TextColor’,’BGColor’,’About’],

1) Each [….] describes one toolbar row. So after […] there needs to be comma.

2) The ‘,’ and ‘/’ items were breaking it, I removed them from the above.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Docfxit,

please revisit the page, it has been updated. What you copied is a list of CKEditor button which we wanted to upgrade to. I removed it now as it’s confusing.

You will find a list of the FCKEditor buttons there now. I also wrapped it in required backets and quotes.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andrew,

this is a problem, as our plugin works just fine with s2Member, so it might be a problem of your membership plugin.

1) I tried using [zm_upgrade] and put [fvplayer] inside of it. I see that the shortcode inside of it doesn’t execute. Notice that it doesn’t execute [gallery] either, so it’s a problem for your membership plugin.

You need to ask the developer of that membership plugin – Zaxaa Member.

2) However if the video is in [zm_protect], it’s not displayed, as user “tester” doesn’t have the permission. Can you try adding the permission and see if the video shows up?

What exactly are you trying to achieve? Do you need [zm_upgrade] at all?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Donald,

as you are our licensed user, we had a quick look and I can see your article container is not using the proper CSS width for the narrower widths, so the problem is not in our plugin.

If you order our pro support we would be happy to fix the issue for you. If you have a CSS designer working for you on your theme, he should be able to figure out the issue as well.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Donald,

you are probably only having issues because you are setting the RTMP server URL incorrectly.

I got it working without any problems like this:

[fvplayer src='http://example-video-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/iins/001-Common-Security-Threats-high.mp4' src1='http://cdn.example.com/dpezet-vod/play/sestore1/dpezet/iins/001-Common-Security-Threats-high.mp4/playlist.m3u8' rtmp="rtmp://cdn.example.com/dpezet-vod/play/" rtmp_path="sestore1/dpezet/iins/001-Common-Security-Threats-high.mp4"]

So our of the full RTMP path of rtmp://cdn.example.com/dpezet-vod/play/sestore1/dpezet/iins/001-Common-Security-Threats-high.mp4 the server connection URL is rtmp://cdn.example.com/dpezet-vod/play/ and sestore1/dpezet/iins/001-Common-Security-Threats-high.mp4 is the file name.

I added more examples into step 3 of our “using RTMP” documentation: http://foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/rtmp-streams

Since RTMP is a proprietary protocol, there appears to be no PHP library available to check if the RTMP is ok or not. That’s why it’s not supported by our video checker.

Please let us know if there is anything else.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Peachi,

since your video file is not properly encoded, there is little information about the video codecs included in first 2MB of the video.

I downloaded the video in full length and found out that it’s using yuv420p video codec. While MP4 is the correct file type, it can contain different codecs (encoding) for the video information h264 is the right one to use.

Use a free tool called Handbrake, instructions with screenshots can be found here: http://foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/encoding

Thanks,
Martin

Hello mrmoney,

sorry about the delay.

You can try this piece of JavaScript, just insert it below your embed code:


<script>
var fv_flowplayer_embed_try_autoplay = setInterval( function() {
if( typeof(jQuery('#test').find('.flowplayer').flowplayer) != "undefined" && jQuery('#test').find('.flowplayer').flowplayer().ready ) {
jQuery('#test').find('.flowplayer').flowplayer().play();
clearInterval( fv_flowplayer_embed_try_autoplay );
}
}, 250 );
</script>


If it works for you, it could be added into the embed code box.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andrew,

1) the html5.js should be put at the start of the <head> section of your site, not at the end of header.php. It should also read “<!–[if lt IE 9]>” in the first line and not just “<!–[if IE]>”. So this was fixed and moved to the right place. Ideally you should also copy it to your theme using FTP and link it from there, just use <?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/html5.js as the path.

However that didn’t do the trick. The problem is elsewhere.

2) Your tempalte is missing <?php wp_footer(); ?> in the footer.php. That’s why “Check template” button reports: “It appears there are no Flowplayer scripts on your site, your videos might not be playing, please check. Check your header.php file if it contains wp_head() function call!”

We will fix it to also detect issues with wp_footer() – there must be some bug, as this was being detected before.

I put it in and now your video plays. You should be able to enable minify now and see if it work.

3) Also you are using Amazon S3 protected links to limit downloads. However it doesn’t appear that you have the permissions set properly on Amazon S3. I’m able to get to the files even without the access keys. Check step 12. in this guide: http://foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/secure-amazon-s3-guide#upload

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andreww,

we will prioritize this feature request, thank you!

Martin

Hello Filip,

we will be in touch about your VAST ads.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Chan,

if you mean the table here: http://foliovision.com/ – The table says there is a plugin to play WMV on selected browser. I noticed we said it plays in HTML5 on IE9+, so I fixed that.

Thank you for letting us know.

Martin

Hello Robert,

we found no issues using:

Mac OS X 10.9.1, Chromium 33.0.1711.0 (235307)
Mac OS X 10.9.1, Chrome 33.0.1750.146
Windows 7, Chrome 33.0.1750.146 m

There might be a conflict with some other plugin though. Please check your browser JavaScript console. Here’s a handy guide from WordPress.org about how to check that console in various browsers, just skip right to step 3: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Your_Browser_to_Diagnose_JavaScript_Errors#Step_3:_Diagnosis And then report back here.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello bgroves,

thank you for your interest in our plugin.

Please note that it is only supposed to do the redirection if you click a link to your-site.com/feed in your browser. If you open it directly, you should see the feed content. That’s how it works on Feedburner and that is the goal of this plugin.

Perhaps that makes it more clear.

If the above doesn’t work on your site and you want to get this fixed on your site directly, we will be happy to assist – just order our pro support.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Donald,

I see, we are looking into this.

Was that option just showing the video URL? The thing is some browsers might ask uses where to download the file, while some browser might start playing the video. So then the uses have to right click it and select “Save As…”. Could you please let us know how that worked?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Anthony,

you should just ask Wishlist Member if they include old Flowplayer in their plugin and how to disable it. Perhaps it can be unhooked from WP scripts API.

When you check your page HTML source code, do you see the similar flowplayer-3 loading from “http://wishlist-products.s3.amazonaws.com&#8221; ?

You can also order our pro support and then we can solve the issue for you right on your website.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Donald,

just check Settings -> FV WordPress Flowplayer -> Amazon S3 Protected Content.

Full Amazon S3 setup instructions are here: http://foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/secure-amazon-s3-guide You probably done all of that. You can just check the first part “Obtaining the Amazon AWS access credentials” if you need new AWS access credentials.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Donald,

so what’s the exact link?

If it’s this one, then I do see the warning in Firefox, but not Chromium/Chrome or Safari: https://edutainmentlive.com/itprotv/account/selection/

Anyway, looks like the CSS loads via HTTP there, so we need to fix that. We will get this fixed on Monday.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Don,

as you have our license, so we can look at your site directly and make sure our plugin is not causing issues. We have SSL websites too and we haven’t noticed this yet, but there could be a bug in the new stylesheet loading code.

Please post the link to your site where you get the warnings and we will have a look. I was not able to find it just by looking at http://edutainmentlive.com. This forum thread will remain private, so you can post your links without worries.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Kamal,

could you please let us know which exact modules you have activated in JetPack?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello purelife8899,

we fixed this – if a window popup fails, it opens the link in the same window. Users can still go back to your site by hitting the back button in their browser. If you have a playlist, this triggers only on last video.

This will get to 2.2.2 version, you can get the latest dev version here: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andrew,

the admin warning only shows to admins letting you know that there is an issue.

Could you please let us know what W3TC settings do you use? A screenshot would be great, just send it in as a email reply.

Which version works for you, is it 2.1.52? http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.2.1.52.zip

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Chan,

I checked iTunes video specs and it looks really close to what is required by HTML5. So there is hope the same file will work.

We added more instructions to our encoding guide, it’s about audio – pay attention to make sure the audio stream is AAC encoded: http://foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/encoding Also make sure you are using latest version of HandBrake.

I would start at 640px wide h264 Baseline profile 3.0 level video with AAC audio at 128Kbps. Not the best looking, but should be safe. Then you can try to up the resolution to something more decent if required. Please not that old iPhones won’t handle more than 640x480px videos though. That’s why we encourage people to put up mobile versions of their videos: http://foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/encoding#mobile-video

As you are our licensed user, I checked your site and the last video – is really big – almost 4GB. 1 minute of a decent HD video should be at around 10MB, so your 2,5 hours long video should be at 1,5GB.

Do you have a shorter video somewhere so we could check its encoding and compare it to what you get from Handbrake? Can you provide a sample of that too? Perhaps it’s just the audio encoding.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Ricky,

could you please post your shortcode here? We won’t publish it, just have a look what’s causing the bug.

Thanks,
Martin

Hi Michael,

I tested this out and this seems to be caused by one of the OptimizePress CSS files: http://www.auerswald-tutorials.de/wp-content/plugins/optimizePressPlugin/lib/assets/default.min.css?ver=2.1.7.1

Making the web work for you,
Martin

Hello Kamal,

sorry about the delay, we will have a look.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Sam,

please let us know if it also happens when you preview one of the default WordPress templates.

Could you please copy content of the FV Simpler SEO box from the page editing here? I mean the content of all the fields in the “FV Simpler SEO” section like on 2nd screenshot here: http://foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/fv-simpler-seo

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Carl,

1) could you please post your video file link here? We will keep this thread private.

2) could you please check if your template uses the html5.js script? FV Flowplayer works with HTML5 video tags and old IE browsers just remove these tags, so that script is necessary. It’s a part of every modern WordPress template.

We are upgrading our template checker on the FV Flowplayer settings screen to detect this and recommend the solution.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Wendy,

I had a look and you are actually trying to init the player by inline JavaScript. Using inline JavaScript slows down your site and makes it hard to use minify.

If you fix your issue with that script, it will show the play button just fine. If you order our pro support, we will be happy to provide more help right on the site, or perhaps incorporate a “compatibility” setting for FV Flowplayer where it would load in header.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Shamule,

yes, you can put it into your template’s style.css file. If you have some basic CSS and WordPress skills it won’t be a problem.

Also make sure you check our change log every time there is a new version to see if there is a configuration option added for this.

Please let us know if there is anything else.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Shamule,

you can accomplish this by using following CSS:

.flowplayer .fp-controls, .flowplayer .fp-time {
display: none;
}

You can add your post ID to CSS selector to restrict it just to a single post.

This might be an useful option though, we will discuss it in our team.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Filip,

the Vimeo integration is in beta stage.

VAST pre-rolls (I guess that’s what you are looking for) are also in beta stage, but the problem is that only few ad providers provide HTML5 VAST ads, so there is more work to be done.

Please let us know if you are interested, who your ad provider is and we can have a look.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Karla,

our plugin will work fine with Vimeo plus.

We work on pre-roll ads too – problem is that most of the ad companies wrap a Flash VPAID ad inside of it and then it’s hard to serve into a HTML5 player. Or they only have a few of ads with HTML5 video. If you could check if your ad provider has enough ads without VPAID, that would be useful.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Evan,

your original link still gives a VPAID ad and empty companion ads: http://ad4.liverail.com/?LR_PUBLISHER_ID=ID&LR_SCHEMA=vast2-vpaid&LR_AUTOPLAY=1&LR_MUTED=0&LR_CONTENT=6&LR_TITLE=MarkFast&LR_VERTICALS=test

However changing LR_SCHEMA to vast2 seems to help: http://ad4.liverail.com/?LR_PUBLISHER_ID=18690&LR_SCHEMA=vast2&LR_AUTOPLAY=1&LR_MUTED=0&LR_CONTENT=6&LR_TITLE=MarkFast&LR_VERTICALS=test

That gives the video ad in MP4, WEBM, FLV and other formats, which is great for HTML5. If you ad provider is able to serve ads in this format, then that’s great.

Is there any way we can specify the visitor IP in your URL? The thing is that the ads are requested using Ajax and we need to be able to specify the original user location using some parameter in the URL. Could you please ask your provider about that?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Kamal,

thank you for reporting back, we will put that up into some notice when using IE 11.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Evan,

thank you for the link, however both the LinearAd and CompanionAd are empty, so there is nothing to serve and that makes testing impossible.

Is the ad serving domain restricted? Could you please allow foliovision.com for it?

Are you using your own publisher ID? Is there any sample ID which we can use for testing which would show some sample ads all the time?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello yohi,

here’s a beta version of FV Flowplayer 2.2 which has support for Amazon S3 protected audio files: http://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer-2.2b.zip

If you could install it and let us know if it works with your audio files, that would be great.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Evan,

allowing multiple ad sources in on our list of things to do.

Unfortunately your ad code provides VPAID ad right now – that means it’s in Flash format. Can you change the parameters so that it serves HTML5 video formats instead? So far we only worked with the HTML5 compatible VAST ads.

Thanks,
Martin