User-Submitted Videos and Playback Compatibility

Hello Henry,

thank you for reaching out to us!

Yes, allowing users to only upload certain formats of video is the easiest way to go about it. While there are occasional issues with playback of mp4 on iOS, it is the most widely supported and accessible format.

We hope you are using our FV Player. If so, we’d love it if you’d share with us what plugin do you use for the frontend submissions and what are your experiences of it working with FV Player.

If you’re interested, we have previously discussed the possibilities of paid customization of our FV Player Coconut to integrate with a frontend user submission plugin. Such an integration would not only allow for automatic transcoding of any format of user submitted videos, but also make them secure.

Making the web work for you,
Maria

Thanks for the reply.

I am using WC Vendors; in this case, the user is simply uploading a video in the Woocommerce product description via a standard WP editor container + insert media button, which opens the media modal:

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After a user uploads and adds the video to the product description, the FV player displays it and works great!

Although my worry is when the iPhone user uploads a video after being recorded in a format other than MP4, such as MOV/HEVC or, as you said, the odd times when MP4 doesn’t play well on iOS.

Hence, I was hoping for something that offered encoding/transcoding.

I tried out Bunny Stream and it works but unfortunately it requires use of the FV Button that is only present on the backend WP Editor; the FV Button to add videos doesn’t display on the front-end WP Editor I have.

I figure Coconut would have the same issue.

Unless there is another way, I am wondering if it’s possible to have the FV Button or the Coconut/ Bunnystream tabs show up in the media modal that I have on the WP Editor on the front end?

If there’s no built-in way to achieve this, it can probably be done by outputting the function in the same way it’s being outputted to the backend WP editor, but to the associated PHP file/function for the front-end WP editor that I have? Or perhaps it’s not that easy?

The WP editor on front-end that I’m using is being rendered in its respective page template via:

wp_editor( $product_short_description, ‘post_excerpt’ );

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Hi Homeless Henry,

Thanks for your suggestion and the detailed notes. Very intriguing. What you are doing here is very close to user-based content. Adding the security and simple enough user interface to allow user-based content is beyond the scope of FV Player for the moment.

Some issues which come to mind:

* users uploading too many videos (overwhelming the server)
* users uploading incompatible/huge video files (generating large service charges)
* users uploading explicit videos

That said, we could build out this functionality as custom development for a specific site and use scenario. If you are interested in custom development, pease contact us via our contact form at https://foliovision.com/about/contact

Thanks, Alec