Add support for Fluid player?

I might, but not for a while. It takes a lot of time to maintain compatibility with players and Fluid Player is really new so I don’t know yet if it’s worth supporting. You could always try adding a Video.js VAST plugin manually.

Hi, thanks for quick reply. I actually did notice that the advertising companies i’m wanting to use actually support a player that is based off of video.js.

I really have no clue where to start so far as implementing this do you happen to have any tips?

Also in regards to the plugin being premium in the future, you might want to consider a monthly subscription instead of a fixed price of say $80 for instance. Charge $5.99 per month give or take. Likely more sales for you & and profit over the long term.

Also adding in native easy to implement video advertising would probably be a great selling point. And I’m not just saying that because I obviously want it. =-) I hope to figure this out well before you possibly do any updates.
Ok done rambling

Thanks again,
Jeremiah

Adding Fluid player support to this plugin is the worst idea ever, if this gets implemented that would be the end for me using this player. People sometimes don’t read the terms of use when it comes to a new video player like Fluid Player.

Adding Fluid player support to this plugin is the worst idea ever, if this gets implemented that would be the end for me using this player. People sometimes don’t read the terms of use when it comes to a new video player like Fluid Player.

I certainly didn’t read it. In any case the only reason for it would of been for in video ad support which I didn’t know video.js already had.

So I’d say that simply adding support for easier non technical implementations of the various video.js plugins would be plenty sufficient.

@lechon can you elaborate on your issues with the terms of use? From what little I’ve looked into it, I saw that the Fluid player is released under the MIT license, which seemed good to me and I stopped reading after that. I don’t have any plans to drop Video.js support, and no concrete plans to add Fluid or any other player, but there’s always room for a new player option as far as I’m concerned. Adding a player doesn’t take away anything from the other players and in fact is often helpful in broadening my understanding of how all players work.

@wakspiddlevak I will certainly have advertising integration available when I release a paid version of the plugin, but I have no interest in spending my time helping advertising networks make money without making some money myself. As I’ve said for a long time now, don’t hold your breath waiting for the paid upgrade though.

Hi Kyle,
The masters behind Fluid Player is a company called ExoClick. While the platform API library is distributed under the MIT license (just like the JW Player as well) you will be giving up the data analytics from your website for free. And of course there are other shenanigas that come along when embeding 3rd party ads directly on your video stream.

Do you have a source for this information? I just want to make sure I’m doing as much due diligence as I can. I understand that the player is built by an advertising network, but I don’t see anything in the Fluid Player code that sends data to a third party. I can imagine if you used ExoClick’s ad network then you would give up your analytics, but since it uses the VAST standard for serving ads, the player is advertising-platform agnostic, so it looks like you can choose to give up your data to the third-party advertiser of your choice, or not use any advertising at all.

If you go to the site fluidplayer.com you will see something really interesting. If you try to contact them, they want you to accept their ‘Terms and Conditions’ before you even communicate with them, well guess what, they don’t list their terms and conditions on their site but they do want you to accepted their ‘Terms and Conditions’ anyway. Puzzled by this I demanded from them to see it, and I was told to go to Exoclick for the terms.

Just as recent as December 2016, and March 2017 Exoclick was injecting malware into sites via ads and the delivery system used was fluidplayer

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-syndication-exoclick-com/
https://www.fixyourbrowser.com/removal-instructions/remove-exoclick-com-redirect-ads/