Hi Alec. A little development. First, I have to say whenever I experiment with different video delivery strategies I continue to be amazed by the versatility of your player. Really incredible work you guys have done here.
In case someone else should contact you and ask for help about a similar scenario as I had, you might want to tell them that they can use HLS as the main video source, then add another video format in the shortcode editor, and put a standard MP4 source there. I’ve done that, and the HLS source plays on mac and iOS (of course), while on Android, which doesn’t support HLS, it plays the MP4 without an issue..even with quality selection. The best part is with the FLowplayer 6 core, non-mac desktops with Flash will also play the HLS. Thought that might be of help and interest to you, should someone else have a similar “problem”
Again, really nice work you guys have done on this player. It’s a gem.
Tim

Thanks for the reply.
I’m not necessarily looking for streaming, I’m looking for range request progressive playback. The trouble with HLS is that it’s only natively supported on Apple devices. On non-apple devices, it needs Flash in order to run. Even googles latest Android release doesn’t seem to support HLS natively. And Flash is no longer available on Android. RTMP is natively supported in Android, but it doesn’t run on iOS. The only true universal playback is HTTP protocol, playing MP4 files.
What I’m looking for is the same behavior on a desktop as what is already happening on an iPad over HTTP protocol. It downloads a chunk of the object (episode) during playback. When the user gets closer to playing up to the chunk that has been downloaded, the player downloads another “chunk” of the episode, etc. Since this seems to already be “normal” behavior in your player (on iPad) I was wondering if there’s a way to have it behave the same way on a desktop.
Thanks again
Tim

That’s weird. I purged the whole folder. Maybe I need to purge individual files; maybe purging folders doesn’t work. I’ll purge the file you pointed out here. Thanks a lot. And yes, CDNs do make troubleshooting harder. It adds another layer to consider. Definitely very annoying.

UPDATE
Martin: I was able to sort it out by starting clean with the last public release that I had backed up. From there I did the upgrades of the player, and then the pro-pack via the WordPress back end. I then went back to find the latest license code you guys sent me on July 30th. Everything seems to be up to date and working now.

Also the back end says “Pro pack not installed. Please install it and enter your FV Flowplayer license”. But I remember it did this in the past, too, with a previous public release, even though the pro pack WAS installed and serialized. After a day or 2 the message just went away. So we don’t have to worry about that for now. Just wanted to bring it to your attention.

One last thing, in the WordPress Plugins back end the description for FV WordPress FLowplayer says “Uses Flowplayer 5”. not FLowplayer 6. I’m sure it’s probably just a mistake but I wanted to let you know in case you guys need to re-write the public description to indicate “Flowplayer 6″…if it is indeed just a mistake. Just pointing it out as a courtesy; it isn’t a problem for me.

Thanks again for everything

Tim

Ah ha, PERFECT! THANK YOU so much for your help and your patience. This was a really big deal for me. I’m so grateful to you. Have a wonderful day!!
Tim

I made a simple page with a lightbox, and a screen capture of what I’m seeing (I’m putting it up now). here’s the link. http://www.vericast.net/player-test/ It’s the white box/border around the video, with a “close” button in the lower right corner. It wasn’t there until I updated to the latest public release.

Hi Viktor. Sorry, I forgot that Alec wanted a URL. But I also need more specificity from you if you wouldn’t mind….where do you want me to insert this CSS code you just sent me? Which CSS file should I insert it to, and where?
Here is a URL for you. It’s all I can provide, because most of our Lightboxed videos are for subscribers, but this page has a light boxed video that’s public.
http://www.vericast.net/shows/vericast-catholic-podcast/ look in the right sidebar. You’ll see a model that says “CLIP”, and a thumbnail. That’s the video lightbox.
Tim

UPDATE:
I have it working (sort of). Videos are playing, lightbox is loading. But for some reason I’m still seeing the “FV Flowplayer” watermark, even thought he flow player pro pack is installed and serialized.

I still have this error message in my main site’s dashboard;
“Warning: include(/home/vericast/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/controller/../view/frontend-head.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/vericast/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/controller/backend.php on line 75

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/vericast/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/controller/../view/frontend-head.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/vericast/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/controller/backend.php on line 75″

BUT I no longer have an error message in my network’s dashboard (I’m using multi site wordpress).

HOWEVER when I click “Check template” in the FV Player settings panel I get this message:
“jQuery library http://img.vericast.net/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.11.2 found, but unable to check version, please make sure it’s at least 1.7.1.”

AND..
“Template checker has changed. Just open any of your videos on your site and see if you get a red warning message about JavaScript not working.
FV Flowplayer script found: http://img.vericast.net/wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/flowplayer/fv-flowplayer.min.js?ver=6.0.2.1!”

I have confirmed that videos are working, and the lightbox is working. I don’t get a red warning message.

Also, regarding the lightbox, the white border is not present in this beta version, so that problem is settled for now.

But this border only started showing up when I updated the player. It wasn’t there before. So I uploaded the “older” player (the one I was using before the update) and the border is gone again. So it has something to do with the CSS in your latest public release player. If you tell me what lines to modify, I can do that myself, no problem. I know how to edit CSS but I’m not a CSS designer/coder, so I just need guidance on what lines to modify. Thanks Alec!
Tim

By the way, thank you Martin and Alec for the response and the positive news about the Vimeo ratings/api, and the update on the next version of your player. I think in my excitement I rushed to download it and forgot my manners lol. Thanks a lot.
Tim

Hi guys. I know it’s been a while but I just wanted to check in to see if this has been addressed. As a reminder, when I use the VimeoPro URL as the source for the video player, it doesn’t get counted in Vimeo’s stats. If I use the URL that vimeo provides for 3rd party players (either HD or SD) that DOES get counted in their stats.
It’s a lot simpler to just put in the VimeoPro’s video URL but I need it to be measured in Vimeo’s stats. Will that feature ever work? I’m trying to avoid using Google Analytics. Also, just curious, do you know when you’ll be using the FLowplayer 6 engine? I read a couple of your blog posts and wanted to ask personally.
Thanks for your help, and for all the work you do. Your player continues to be incredible.
Tim

The WordPress plugins interface says does not indicate an available update. I will manually download and install the new version, and I’ll let you know how it works out. Thanks again for your help,. and I want to say yet again THANK YOU to you and your team for this player. It’s a gem!

No, I’m not hard coding the URLs, just what Vimeo provides. Thank you for the warning though.
I know that your player takes a lot of work off a publisher’s hands; it’s quite amazing that way. The issue for me though is the Vimeo branding when interfacing with the player as an end-user. I know it seems like an insignificant detail, and I’m sure in most cases it is a silly thing to consider. But for my purposes it’s kind of important that my branding is exclusive.

Hi. I have recently downloaded and installed the latest version. But VimeoPro quality switching is not working. I have it selected in the VimeoPro window in the plugins settings, but when I insert a video, and click to enable quality switching, it does not work. The video plays without quality switching buttons. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Your documentation doesn’t make it entirely clear to me. I’m referencing what you have here: https://foliovision.com/player/how-to-use-vimeo-pro#quality
If you go through the instructions, you’ll see that it’s either missing some steps, or maybe I’m misunderstanding it. I’m trying to follow it, but it isn’t giving me much guidance. Thanks for your help.

THANK YOU very much. The quality settings is one of the areas where your documentation wasn’t entirely clear. What I have learned in this exchange with you is completely new to me. Maybe I misread your documentation.
I appreciate the hard work your team has put into this plugin. It’s truly brilliant. I am also thankful for your patience and help in resolving these issues with me. Good luck to all of you!
Tim

3) Oh wait, one last thing. The quality switching is now defaulting to Mobile again. How do I force it to default to the SD or HD version and not the mobile version?

The mobile version is the 3rd source link in the short code. The first source link is the HD version, second is the SD version. The short code editor says “Your primary video matches HD quality” but it is not playing the HD video by default. If you go to the link I originally sent you you can test it for yourself.

This is not a major issue for me, as I will almost never offer a mobile version, but I’d still like to understand why the player is doing that, and how I can fix it. Thanks again!

I have made the post public, instead of password protected. Just in case you need that.

1. Ah! Yes, when putting data into the SEO fields, you’re absolutely right, the Facebook share links only displays what’s there. I hadn’t considered that, because in earlier tests the share link was ignoring what I had in the Excerpt field (separate from the SEO fields). So I didn’t think the blank SEO fields would result in this problem. But you’re right, that did fix it. Thank you!!!

2. Where would I generally find the “Gallery Popup” css? Is that usually in a universal CSS file in wordpress? For example, is it usually found in style.css, etc. etc.?

3. Regarding quality switching; this still didn’t work even when I was using Vimeo’s links, which are all the same location, but different naming strings for SD and HD versions. HOWEVER it does work now that all of the links are on the same root URL. Thank you again!

So far so good. Once I get the lightbox feature working correctly I’ll be ready to roll out this player. Very exciting!