Version |
Release Date |
Change Log |
7.4.17.727 |
2020-05-06 |
2020/04/08 =
New setting - Multiple video playback - enable to allow multiple videos to play at the same time, only the last played video remains audible, the others are muted
Editor - Preview is now using a simpler and faster code
Iframe embedding - when you embed a playlist, it remembers which video did you play when obtaining the iframe embed code
iOS - better way of detecting 403 HTTP errors during playback
Subtitles - improving to show the first matching subtitle line when subtitles are first enabled, until now it would wait before playback time reaches another subtitle line
Volume control - dragging it down to zero mutes the video and shows the un-mute icon, which restores the last volume when clicked
Bugfix - Lightbox - Proper sizing for mobile landscape view
Bugfix - Video duration scanning when posting new files using editor and not using FV Player Pro
Bugfix - Video Position Saving - not working for logged in users in Chrome version >
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7.4.14.727 |
2020-04-08 |
2020/01/28 =
HLS.js - enabling on iOS 13 and Safari above version 8
Bugfix - CSS - avoiding borders on splash images
Bugfix - Editor - Preview fix when using Lazy Load by WP Rocket
Bugfix - Sharing - fixing the custom URL and title in frontend, fixing link to Tweet
Bugfix - Splash screen code cleanup for FV Player Pro
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7.4.9.727 |
2020-01-28 |
2019/12/12 =
AWS - adding new regions
New setting - Force HD Streaming for websites who prefer video quality over buffering speed
Playlist - add sort="reverse" to shortcode to shows the playlist in reverse item order
Bugfix - invisible menus trapping click events below the player on mobile
Bugfix - Playlist menu - not adding when there is a single video with ads
Bugfix - S3 Bucket browser - fix for missing styling
Bugfix - Vimeo/MPEG-DASH mute button fix
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7.4.8.727 |
2019-12-12 |
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7.4.6.727 |
2019-10-22 |
2019/09/17 =
Chromecast - disabled by default for new installs, use the "Enable google chromecast" setting
HLS - updated the HLS.js library
Muted autoplay - adding the global and per-player setting
Subtitles - remembering the last subtitle language selected and using that
Bugfix - Database - cloning a player should omit the "Embedded on" information
Bugfix - Editor - bad position of the video meta data loading indicator
Bugfix - Polaroid and Season playlist styles - fix when you exit fullscreen too early
Bugfix - Splash screen - covering the video during playback due to theme CSS with !important rules
Bugfix - Video Links - issues when clicking different links pointing to a single video
Bugfix - Volume bar - fixing what happens on mobile when you tap video to pause after changing volume
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7.4.2.727 |
2019-09-17 |
2019/08/28 =
Google Analytics - using video titles rather than file names
iOS 12 fullscreen fix
Playlist - adding recovery routine - missing video will no longer cause the whole playlist to stop playing
Playlist - fixing Season style font sizes
Handle WordPress shortcodes - fixed to also handle the [audio] shortcodes
Video linking - using the video ID if available
Bugfix - splash image not appearing when using 100% for global width or height
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7.4.0.727 |
2019-08-28 |
2019/07/30 =
New mobile setting - Force landscape orientation in fullscreen
New playlist style - Polaroid
New playlist style - Vertical Season
New video field - DVR stream - available for m3u8 and mpd streams
New video field - synopsis - used for Vertical Season playlist
Styling - changed splash images from CSS background to actual IMG tags for easier lazyloading and future retina support
Styling - making sure any menu fits into the player height
Styling - moving Airplay button next to fullscreen button
Styling - showing full-width timeline if there are too many buttons on a narrow screen
Ads - showing overlay ad for each playlist item
Lightbox - showing playlist (player and playlist items) as a single item
Handle WordPress shortcodes - fixed to also cover Gutenberg video block in front-end
Bugfix - bad default sort on the wp-admin -> FV Player screen
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7.3.19.727 |
2019-07-30 |
2019/07/11 =
Security - fix for SQL injection vulnerability on the wp-admin FV Player screen for users with access - thanks to Tin Duong
Removing setting - Enable old interface
Bugfix - Speed menu - enabling for Android
Bugfix - Video Position Saving - disabling for live streams
Bugfix - Video Speed - not restoring the last video speed for players without speed menu
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7.3.15.727 |
2019-05-31 |
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7.3.13.727 |
2019-05-14 |
2019/04/30 =
Ad codes - sensing size of the Google AdSense ad unit, allowing the ad to expand from the player container for maximum ad revenue
Ad codes - vi Story ad support - stopping your video if there is an video ad in overlay
Embed codes - using database player IDs for the embed URL
HLS - added support for multiple audio tracks on desktop browsers
Iframe embedding - removed the settings as it's the only way of embedding, you can still use "Disable Embed Button"
Screen options - added to the wp-admin -> FV Player screen, allowing you to see count of subtitle, chapter and transcript files
Styling - new loading indicator which also appears before the player is initialized on slow connections
XML Video Sitemap - includes a lot more videos as it uses the individual player iframe embed links. Until now it was only possible to put in videos using MP4 format without any kind of download protection. Your members only videos stay protected and won't open, but let us know if they appear in sitemap.
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7.3.12.727 |
2019-04-30 |
2019/02/26 =
New Feature - Rewind Button - seeks 10 seconds back in the video, enable in Settings -> FV Player -> Sitewide FV Player Defaults
Live stream - removing from Post Interface Options and showing it for HLS streams automatically
Audio - checkbox for HLS streams to make them audio-only
Bugfix - video duration check forgetting to remove fv_flowlayer_tmp_* temporary files
Bugfix - video position saving too many requests when leaving the web page
Bugfix - video start/end time editing for FV Player Pro
Bugfix - too many database checks in wp-admin
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7.3.9.727 |
2019-02-26 |
2019/02/05 =
FV Player wp-admin menu - sorting by player date, latest first
S3 Bucket browser - improving to work well with large quantities of files. The search function was removed gone as AWS S3 doesn't have that, unfortunately.
Quality Switching - improving the label for qualities in range of 540-720p (HD if there is no higher quality, otherwise SD)
Bugfix - iOS video recovery issues in playlists
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7.3.7.727 |
2019-02-05 |
2019/01/24 =
Database - performance fix
Bugfix - fullscreen mode corners when using the YouTuby skin
Bugfix - FV Player Meta Box (Custom Videos) fixes
Bugfix - WP Media Library not loading for FV Player screen
Bugfix - S3 Browser not loading FV Player screen and Gutenberg (block editor)
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7.3.6.727 |
2019-01-24 |
2017/01/08 =
Caption field - renaming to Title
Database - enabling background processing for videos in DB
Editor - fix for WebM and HLS duration scanning
Lightbox - added Remove fancyBox setting - use if you see a "fancyBox already initialized" message on JavaScript console
Sharing - removing Google+ as it's deprecated
Bugfix - PHP 7.2 compatiblity
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7.3.3.727 |
2018-12-14 |
2017/12/05 =
Compatiblity - improving old Samsung phone detection for warning messages
Database - PHP 5.2 compatibility fixes
Database - schema changes for better compatibility (maximum row size error)
MPEG-DASH - upgrading Dash.js to 2.8.0
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7.2.8.727 |
2018-11-15 |
2018/10/22 =
Performance fixes - loading SVGs and window resize hooks
Alternative iOS fullscreen mode setting - for users who notice site elements such as header bar ovelaying the player in fullscreen on iOS
Styling - fixing timeline jumping left-right a bit when using "inherit from template" font face skin setting with some of the WP themes
Bugfix - preventing duplicate fullscreen button on Youtuby skin
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7.2.7.727 |
2018-10-22 |
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7.2.5.727 |
2018-10-18 |
2018/10/16 =
HLS - player size now limits the ABR
Playlist - adding prev/next buttons
Skin - new color picker with transparency for control bar
Skin - setting to move fullscreen button to control bar
Styling - using SVG for sharing icons
Bugfix - volume bar usability
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7.2.4.727 |
2018-10-16 |
2018/10/11 =
Lightbox - fixing display bugs caused by some of the floating header bars (z-index)
HLS - using HLS.js instead of HLS.light.js as it had issues with some of the EXT-X-BYTERANGE streams
Site speed improvements - allowing FV Player Pro to load Dash JS and HLS JS only when needed
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7.2.3.727 |
2018-10-11 |
2018/10/03 =
HLS - improving quality labels (M, SD and HD)
Lightbox - fixing full screen sizing issue when using Chrome on Windows
Subtitles - fixing language codes for Hebrew, Indonesian and Javanese
Check template function - adding warning for websites which strip the query string versions
Fixing Admin JavaScript warning
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7.2.2.727 |
2018-10-03 |
2018/09/28 =
Amazon S3 - fixing issues caused by Flash version of signed URL
Amazon S3 - fixing handling of blank spaces for S3 bucket browser
Amazon S3 - fixing handling of blank spaces for URL signature
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7.2.1.727 |
2018-09-28 |
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7.1.15.727 |
2018-09-18 |
2018/09/11 =
Audio player - fixing speed menu and avoiding "No Picture" button
CSS cleanup
Iframe embedding - fix for playlists - always use "Slider" style to keep it simple
Lightbox - update to latest FancyBox version to prevent issues with element data key "target" used by Popups plugin
Playlist - fixing width for the "Slider" playlist style
Playlist - fixing start/end parsing for "Tabs" playlist style
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7.1.14.727 |
2018-09-12 |
- First stable release of FV Player 7
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6.6.6 |
2018-08-27 |
New users get FV Player 7 Beta (7.1.6.726.beta) automatically!
- Making sure big custom logo won't prevent video playback due to blocking clicks
- Playlist - setting maximum player width to 100% to prevent display issues
- Preventing right mouse click on player
- XML Video Sitemap and Schema.org - fixing exclusion for CloudFront domains
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6.6.5 |
2018-07-06 |
2018/07/02 =
Feature - Handle WordPress video shortcodes option now also converts YouTube links
Bugfix - XSS fix, thanks to Japan Vulnerability Notes for the report
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6.6.2 |
2018-06-27 |
2018/06/04 =
Bugfix - "Load FV Flowplayer JS everywhere" setting - was not loading HLS.js library at all
Bugfix - Lightbox - JavaScript error for matching elements without href attribute
Bugfix - Video Position Saving - affecting even players which are not set to remember position
Bugfix - XML Video Sitemap - fix for conflict with Yoast SEO when the option to disable date archives is enabled
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6.6.1 |
2018-05-30 |
- FV Player Pro 0.9.17 and 0.9.17.1 users - make sure you update FV Player Pro before this plugin!
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6.5.2 |
2018-04-16 |
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6.5.1 |
2018-04-11 |
2018/04/04 =
Amazon S3 - Adding URL signature for subtitles
CSS - Responsive sizing of subtitles in fullscreen mode for large retina displays
Bugfix - Google Analytics - fixing label of "Unknown" to say "Unknown engine" which occurs when the video fails to play before engines are initialized
Bugfix - Lightbox - when used for playlist the first item was appearing twice in the lightbox view
Bugfix - Lightbox - when using the "text" lightbox with playlist it was rendering the playlist items as thumbnails
Bugfix - Lightbox - stopping the playlist styles from interfering - forcing horizontal playlist style for lightboxed playlist
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6.5 |
2018-04-04 |
2018/03/14 =
New feature - Video position saving for both guest and logged in users - see Settings -> FV Player -> Sidewide Flowplayer Defaults -> Remember video position
Custom video fields are now easy to add with the FV_Player_MetaBox PHP class
DASH - updating to latest tested Dash.js version
Bugfix - iframe embed code placing body closing tag in bad place
Bugfix - fix for PHP warnings on AMP pages
Bugfix - Shortcode editor bug when you select the subtitle language and it adds the subtitles twice
Bugfix - Subtitles in playlist - making sure multilingual subtitles work for the first item at least
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6.4.2 |
2018-03-13 |
2018/02/23 =
CSS - fixing the left and right alignment margin
HLS.js - making it pick the initial quality automatically, rather than using the first stream
JW Player Conversion - adding support for [jwplayer player="3" mediaid="538527"] kind of shortcodes
Lightbox - fix for Ajax loaded content
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6.3.11 |
2018-01-22 |
2017/11/20 =
New feature - Sticky Video - lets your viewers continue watching the video as they scroll past it. It applies to desktop computer displays - minimal width of 1200 pixels. See Setting -> FV Player -> Skin -> Sticky Video
Lightbox - improving retina image parsing
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6.2.10 |
2017-09-07 |
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6.1.5 |
2017-07-12 |
2016/06/29 =
Compatibility - bugfix for FV Player widget as it was breaking Featured Image insertion when also using DesignThemes Core Features Plugin
Iframe embedding - using width and height attributes like YouTube or Vimeo to ensure FV Player Iframe embeds are responsive at least in themes with iframe responsiveness code
Microsoft Smooth Streaming - adding support for http://.streaming.mediaservices.windows.net/.ism/manifest(format=mpd-time-csf) and ...(format=m3u8-aapl) kind of URLs
Reverting - Ajax loading - fix for repeated autoplay if your theme loads FV Player using Ajax and uses autoplay for the loaded content. You have to set fv_player_did_autoplay
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6.0.5.24 |
2017-05-23 |
2017/05/09 =
Amazon S3 - adding support for new AWS Regions - US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and EU (London).
End Popup - making sure it works on the last item in playlist only
Speed control - making sure it works for Android when using Firefox
Vimeo (Pro) - showing a notice to install Firefox if user has playback issues due to TLS 1.2 incompatibility on Android 4 and old OS X. More details: https://foliovision.com/2017/05/issues-with-vimeo-on-android
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2.4.2 |
2015-08-11 |
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2.3.12 |
2015-04-17 |
2015/02/13 =
Feature - player position setting - lets you change the default centering to left align with no text wrapping
Feature - RSS - improving player appearance
Bugfix - FV Flowplayer preview in admin screen conflict with WP Media Library fixed
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2.2.9 |
2014-06-13 |
2014/06/04 =
Feature - share bar added!
Bugfix - annoying iOS 7 bug where black lines appear after videos - fixed!
Bugfix - "Convert old shortcodes with commas" option changed to work with old [flowplayer] shortcodes only
Bugfix - Pro extension settings forgotten if Pro extension was deactivated and options saved afterwards
Bugfix - shortcode editor fixes for captions
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2.1.52 |
2014-01-28 |
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1.2.17 |
2013-05-02 |
- bugfix for wp-content paths
- fix for some warnings
- bugfix for popups and splash image at the end
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1.0.6 |
2010-08-13 |
- widgets problems with splash image and controlbar fixed
- cyan background color fixed
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0.9.17 |
2010-03-16 |
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