Foliovision: Making the web work for you

Hello luiskalil,

Last time I checked our video at https://foliovision.com/ it played fine on Chromecast including the subtitles.

Please let me know what “Optimize” function do you mean.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Haris,

Did you run into any issues when trying to use the full FV Player LearnDash integration? https://foliovision.com/player/membership-ppv-elearning/elearning/learndash-progression-player

If you are unable to use that, do you mean the “Handle WordPress audio/video” setting? It does not have any finer control, at least not currently.

You explained that you don’t want FV Player to work for videos in LearnDash, please let us know where do you actually want it to work.

Currently you could only stop it with in your PHP display template:

remove_filter( 'wp_video_shortcode_override', 'fv_flowplayer_shortcode_video', 10, 4 );
remove_filter( 'the_content', 'fv_player_handle_youtube_links' );
remove_filter( 'embed_oembed_html', 'fv_player_handle_youtube_links' );

However that won’t work if you are using a block theme.

I wonder why the shortcode does not show properly in that LearnDash lesson content. Are you using any custom LearnDash theme or does your theme do anything special with LearnDash?

Thanks,
Martin

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Foliovision: Making the web work for you. Reason: Adding more code to avoid YouTube links changing to FV Player

Hello mabdellahi,

Thank you for your suggestions.

What’s good about the FV Player Pro video downloading system is that it’s not easy to share these video download links with other users. It also logs each video download if Simple History plugin is installed.

In FV Player Pro 8 we will show the download button under each video where it’s allowed automatically, even for playlists.

Please post to https://foliovision.com/support/ directly to help us keep track of the issues in the future.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Walter,

We are not noticing issues with FV Player setttings screen on websites with PHP 8.2.0.

So it would be still useful to see your actual PHP error log.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Walter,

Thank you for also submitting this to foliovision.com/support – we are looking into that there.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andrew,

The file size of course depends on the duration of the video and the resolution.

In our guide we recommend 1500 to 4000 kbps for a video of 960×540 pixels dimension.

However if you only create a single MP4 file the users on mobile internet might still have slow video start times.

That’s why in FV Player Coconut we create the HLS streams where each video is encoded to different video resolutions/qualities:

240p @320k, maxrate=960k
480p @700k, maxrate=2100k
720p @4000k, maxrate=12000k
1080p @6000k, maxrate=18000k
1440p @10000k, maxrate=30000k
2160p @16000k, maxrate=48000k

With FV Player Pro you can still serve a different MP4 file to the mobile users though.

Also, in MP4 files the moov meta data position is very important. The video must be set to be web optimized, we mention all of that in our guide. You can check this if you play the video in Google Chrome (or Chromium).

When you open the Network tab of the browser developer tools and click to play the video, you should see there is as single network request downloading the video and it does not have to try with multiple requests trying to find that meta data. Best to test using the “Guest” mode to prevent file caching and close after each test.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Andrew,

It really depends on the kind of the content you are posting. One value might be good for movies while if you have an e-learning website with slideshows a much lower value can be used.

Our article about how to encode your videos should get you a good start: https://foliovision.com/player/troubleshooting/encoding

To make it easier to add new videos FV Player now integrates with encoding services like Coconut, Cloudflare Stream or Bunny Stream. All of them let you upload videos right in your wp-admin as you are writing the post.

So we made adding new videos easier that way. Maybe we could add some encoding presets there. Specially Coconut is fairly flexible and it allows us to protect videos from downloading too (for Pro users).

Please submit future requests using https://foliovision.com/support/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/ to help us keep track of the issues.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Walter,

Thank you for posting into our support forums here: https://foliovision.com/support/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/bug-reports/video-does-start-to-play-after-clicking-on-the-botton

We answered your question there.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Nguy?n,

Would you like to be able to specify multiple overlay ad codes and then have each FV Player pick one randomly? Currently we only have that feature for video ads in the Pro version: https://foliovision.com/player/video-ads/built-advertising-tools/using-preroll-postroll-ads

Please submit future requests using https://foliovision.com/support/fv-wordpress-flowplayer to help us keep track of these feature requests.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Nguy?n,

FV Player Editor does not offer customization like that, but in FV Player 8 (available in Beta soon) we will make it easier to add custom fields in the editor.

Please let us know what it is you are trying to achieve. Would you like to move that “Playlist Style” drop down? https://foliovision.com/player/playlists/creating-playlists#individual-playlist-styles

Please submit future requests on https://foliovision.com/support/fv-wordpress-flowplayer to help us keep track of the issues and feature requests.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Daniel,

Please try to remove this line in wp-content/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/controller/frontend.php:

add_action('widget_text','do_shortcode');

Will that fix the issue?

Thanks,
Martin

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the screenshots.

This is a tough call as we don’t know what other plugins you have installed. Of course I see Elementor is there. Our lead developer will take a look and let you know if we’ve seen this before.

If not, for commercial clients we are available for hire to fix small issues and/or adapt FV Player to your theme.

You could also search our own forum for FV Player.

Thanks, Alec

• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Foliovision: Making the web work for you.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Foliovision: Making the web work for you.

Hello Nguy?n,

In order for a HLS stream to play in a browser where it’s not natively supported it must be served with the CORS headers. Please check our guide here: https://foliovision.com/player/troubleshooting/hls#hls-js

Unfortunately this limitation is caused by the way web browsers load resources from 3rd party domains. It’s not imposed by FV Player, any web player will require these CORS headers.

Thanks,
Martin

I’m astonished by this review and a few others. Even brilliant plugin authors providing completely free, better than pro level plugins, suffer drive by assassinations. Redirection is one of the most reliable WordPress plugins ever created, with a seventeen year history of painstaking maintenance. We have used Redirection on hundreds of sites, many of them very high traffic. Occasional user error (misconfigured redirection rules, they are very powerful) but that’s it.

Hello EMar,

You can always change it, as long as it’s the first playing item.

Thanks,
Martin