Flowplayer v6

Hi, I have been looking at Flowplayer 6 and making notes what changes I need to make. I hope to get a beta version out by 10th of June and a full release soon after that.

Awesome – can I add that I am using it with Nathaniel Schweinberg’s S3 plugin so it would be cool if it could continue to work with that ?? Likewise, I for one would very much like to see support for Cloudfront signed urls.

But even as it is, thanks so much for your work on this plugin: it’s a good one ??

R.

I have created a beta version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m6pq4m9n80ski4y/flowplayer5.zip?dl=0

Please don’t UNINSTALL the plugin as it will delete all of the settings. Please use FTP to replace the files.

I tested it with the S3 plugin and it still works. I need to work on a few more details but I have not found any issues with the beta version.

If you have time to write a review it would be appreciated ??

Thanks – I will give it a go as soon as I can.

Very quick first look suggests that both vanilla & s3 signed videos work correctly on phones but strangely NOT on my linux box or old Mac (firefox & chrome) where all I get is the “3 dots” … no time to do more right now. Theme is latest version of standard Customizr. As the site is not yet in the public domain, if you want access for debugging, please advise how I can provide you with credentials.

OK, a little bit more detail on the desk/laptop version 6 problems referred to in my last post – in the configuration …

1. If I choose autoplay, all is well, the video loads and plays fine. If I switch autoplay off, it is as described before … I just get the three dots and nothing happens.
2. Regardless of whether the video plays, if I choose to hide the embed button, it still gets shown. If the video does not play, it is still shown but it is empty

I hope that this helps.

PS: there seems to be no difference in these facts between videos that have signed URLs and those that don’t. Likewise, deactivating Nathaniel’s plugin does not seem to make a difference.

(Edited for clarity.)

Thanks, I have been busy. I will get back to you soon.

Hello, sorry for the delay. I have been able to fix the embed button issue.

I was not able to recreate the playing issue. Could you share access to the site? You can send me the info via my contact form. https://ulrich.pogson.ch/contact

Ulrich, you have email ??

The lastest update v1.11.0 includes Flowplayer 6.

Hey Ulrich, likewise sorry for the delay. I have updated to the latest release (v1.11.1) and I seem to have a new problem: not autoplaying on mobile devices – it doesn’t seem to matter whether there is a splash image or not.

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

all of a sudden the player is not working 3 dots scrolling and no load. on all players. https://cinemastarproductions.com/modeling-reel/ is one thats using flow and not working.

Thanks

update switching to version 5 in settings brought the videos back.
why I have no clue or how it switched to 6 …

Thanks

Hi, when I switch FP settings from version 5 to version 6 I get
‘3 loading dots’ non-stop on my splash image…
But if I click the the player it plays the video fine.

If I set it back to version 5 it behaves normally –
basically it shows the splash screen with ‘play icon’
and when clicked it shows 3 loading dots briefly then plays video when buffered enough.

Any thoughts on how to fix that?

BTW – what are the main benifits to using ver 6 if one is only playing a basic video from S3?

Thanks for you continued development with the Flowplayer WP plugin!!!
R

@promitech Sorry, I missed your message. I think the issue is that the theme is loading it’s own version of jQuery and not that which is shipped with WordPress.

@randomfreeform – Could you share a link where I could check if there are any JavaScript issues?

You can read about the new features here: https://flowplayer.org/news/releases/html5/v.6.0.0.html

The big thing is supporting adaptive video like you see on YouTube. I am planning of releasing an update soon which includes support for the improvements in playlists.