FV Flowplayer Video Player

• 2022/09/20 =

• AWS SDK update and size reduction

• Full-featured YouTube player (moved in from FV Player Pro)

• HLS.js - upgrade to 1.2.3 to fix playback on iOS 16

• iPhone - avoid accidental drag of on-screen home button when in fullscreen

• Seek back/forward button on controlbar - allowing for DVR live streams

• SiteGround Security - putting track.php on their exclusions list

• Bugfix - Dash.js Safari autoplay fix

• Bugfix - fixing missing "no play" icon

• Bugfix - Preloading - fix player not appearing when using 100% width and height, assuming 16:9 aspect ratio

• Bugfix - Volume control appearing for iOS 16 where it's not possible to control volume using JavaScript

• 2022/07/06 =

• Using Freedom Video Player 7.2.10

• AWS SDK update

• CSS - make sure the seek buttons work with button color setting

• Editor - download splash image from Vimeo or YouTube for FV Player Pro users

• Featured image - only set once for each player in the post, allowing you to prevent the FV Player Splash Image from becoming the Featured Image anytime you save the post

• Safari - avoid WebM , it might have VP9 - won't play

• Security - hide sensitive information in settings pannels (the Secure Access Keys, requires FV Player Pro 7.5.25.727 if installed)

• SEO - 30 instead of just 10 words for schema.org/description

• Bugfix - PHP 8.1 deprecation fixes

• 2022/04/07 =

• Bugfix - Position saving - issues with position restore when multiple players on the page

• Bugfix - CSS - ensure the controlbar fonts load before video starts playing

• Bugfix - LearnDash LMS support - fix FV Player Pro video ads to not affect lesson completion button

• 2022/01/27 =

• HLS.js - upgrade to 1.1.4 to fix playback on Apple Silicon M1 computers

• LearnDash LMS support - add FV Player directly in your lesson Video Progression settings

• Shortcode to database conversion tool - use FV Player -> Tools -> Conversion to upgrade from [fvplayer src="..."] to [fvplayer id="..."]

• Video Sitemap XML - Elementor support

• Bugfix - Amazon S3 - fix bucket name being matched in the file name

• Bugfix - Settings screen - fix boxes not opening in rare cases

• 2021/01/06 =

• Bunny Stream - show video collections

• Bugfix - Editor - show HLS stream checkboxes if the stream cannot be checked as it's not available

• 2021/12/20 =

• New feature - drag&drop video upload and encoding with the Bunny Stream service!

• New feature - Editor now detects the HLS stream type to show Live stream and Audio stream checkboxes only when needed

• Compatibility - Editor - jQuery 3.6 fixes

• Bugfix - Editor - prevent autosave attempt right after opening the editor

• 2021/11/25 =

• Bugfix - Playlist tabs not pausing the old tab player properly

• Bugfix - Position Saving - do not use index.m3u8 as the video ID

• Bugfix - Video link issue for videos over 1 hour

• Compatibility - Bunny.net WordPress CDN Plugin

• Compatibility - WP Rocket Used CSS

• Lightbox - Fancybox updated - double tap on image zooms in

• Linode Object Storage support

• Video upload support for FV Player Coconut and FV Player Bunny Stream

• 2021/10/06 =

• Airplay - removing the button if the video type is not supported

• Click to unmute - shows when a video playback starts muted

• Flash is no longer the default video type

• Support for FV Player Coconut video uploads

• 2021/09/27 =

• Bugfix - HLS - live stream check - countdown fix

• Bugfix - Lightbox - image lightbox picks proper image caption for [caption] shortcodes

• Bugfix - Matomo/Piwik support - fix when running in subfolder

• Bugfix - Subtitles - remember disabled subtitles state even if subtitles on by default

• 2021/09/09 =

• Appearance - player interface is now a bit smaller on desktop devices

• CSS - fix gap between player and controlbar for fixed controls and full timeline

• Mobile - keep rewind button even on narrow displays

• Support for chapters on video timeline (Pro feature)

• Uninstall - adding the missing feature

• Bugfix - native fullscreen not working on iOS

• 2021/08/10 =

• Security - fix for XSS vulnerability in stats screen

• Bugfix - Force landscape orientation in fullscreen setting fix

• Bugfix - bad scroll position after leaving fullscreen

• Bugfix - Sticky player code should not run on mobile

• 2021/05/18 =

• Custom video fields - setting default hook priority to ensure boxes are placed higher up

• Deprecated jQuery calls fix

• HLS.js - upgrade to 1.0.4 to fix autoplay issues with some streams

• Bugfix - Editor - Video Screenshot - fix for new crossOrigin requirement for MP4

• Bugfix - Playlist - fixes when the playlist item fails to play and it auto-advances to next

• Bugfix - Sticky player - subtitles sizing

• 2021/04/09 =

• DASH.js - allowing it to recover from blocked autoplay on Safari

• Handle WordPress audio/video - improved the setting to also work with YouTube oEmbed

• Migration Wizard - improved to handle subtitles too

• Bugfix - duplicate FV Player DB wp_fv_player_videometa rows being created

• Bugfix - Lightbox - respect dimensions stored in FV Player DB

• Bugfix - Position Saving - safer way of restoring position (for HLS.js)

• 2021/03/24 =

• Bugfix - YouTube.com iframe embeds broken after adding support for youtube-nocokie.com in previous release

• Bugfix - YouTube controlbar fix for iPad with Chrome for FV Player Pro

• 2021/02/18 =

• Bugfix - Fullscreen - bad scroll position after leaving fullscreen of YouTube with FV Player Pro

• Bugfix - Google Analytics - only load when configured

• Bugfix - prevent PHP notices for position and timeline_preview

• 2021/01/21 =

• Chromecast - icon fix

• Chromecast - retain playback position when enabling/disabling

• Chromecast - support replaying the video and playlists

• Chromecast - support switching of audio tracks in multiple audio track HLS streams

• Skin settings - adding Helvetica as an option

• Bugfix - removing exception trigger for missing FV_Player_Db_Player_Meta()

• 2021/01/14 =

• Security - Security - XSS fix for wp-admin -> FV Player screen from logged in editors/admins. Thanks to Arcangelo Saracino for the report!

• Compatibility - Avada builder (wp-admin) fixes

• Google Analytics - switching from ga.js to analytics.js

• Bugfix - Audio splash screen fix for HLS audio-only streams

• Bugfix - Fullscreen subtitles font size

• Bugfix - Video duration scanning issues with certain HLS streams

• 2020/11/20 =

• Added Settings into wp-admin -> FV Player menu

• Compatibility - Safari fullscreen fix for Twenty Twenty

• Bugfix - HLS quality remembering - fix when remembered stream number doesn't exist

• Bugfix - iOS video recovery - was causing issues with playback of MP4 videos

• Bugfix - Playlist style selection not working for FV Player Pro Vimeo Channel parsing

• Bugfix - S3 Browser - fix for CloudFront domains when using S3 path with region name

• 2020/10/28 =

• Bugfix - typo in OGV video parsing resulting in bad video type

• Bugfix - "Use native fullscreen on mobile" not working after last release

• 2020/09/23 =

• FV Player wp-admin Screen - search fixes and improvements - you can multiple words or quotes

• HLS - live stream check - improving display and behavior when multiple video playbacks is enabled

• Compatibility - AWS - library update

• Compatibility - jQuery migrate fixes

• Compatibility - Elementor fixes

• 2020/08/24 =

• Bugfix - Autoplay - hide initial play arrow animation when autoplaying a video did also hide the loading progress indicator

• DASH.js library downgrade to 3.0.0 as some videos wouldn't play on macOS 10.5.6 with Safari 13.1.2

• 2020/06/09 =

• AWS - adding new regions

• HLS - live stream check - shows countdown and retries automatically if it's not up

• List table - changing user interface text labels "Playlist" to "Player"

• MPEG-DASH - partial fix for Disable HTML5 autoplay Chrome extension for Vimeo videos in FV Player Pro

• Settings - Check template - fix when using Google PageSpeed module or SCRIPT_DEBUG

• Bugfix - Editor - bugfix, couldn't save Prev/Next playlist style properly

• Bugfix - iOS video recovery - bugfix, it was not allowing you to pause the video

• Bugfix - Multiple video playback - would mute videos in playlist

• 2020/05/07 =

• HLS - improved parsing of video qualities for video quality menu in case your m3u8 has video resolution information

• Skin settings - allowing 0 for marginBottom

• Bugfix - CSS - playlist font color setting not working

• Bugfix - CSS - 2014 design titles background color in some themes

• Bugfix - MPEG-DASH - fix for recovery of Vimeo videos in FV Player Pro

• 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 >

• 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

• 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

• 2019/10/23 =

• Playlist menu - fixing to not include the FV Player Pro Video Ads

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 2019/05/16 =

• Security - fix for SQL injection vulnerability in email subscription

• Security - fix for email subscription CSV export capability available to guest users

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 2018/10/18 =

• Urgent bugfix due to a playlist malfunction caused by the Redirect feature change in previous release

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• First stable release of FV Player 7

• 2018/07/10 =

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

• 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

• 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

• FV Player Pro 0.9.17 and 0.9.17.1 users - make sure you update FV Player Pro before this plugin!

• 2018/04/11 =

• New feature - video intelligence ads

• Bugfix - Video position saving - not working when playing HLS in Firefox

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 2017/09/04 =

• Google Analytics - fix for HLS streams turning up as "index" only - adding last directory name into it as well, so you will get my-video/index now.

• 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

• 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

• 2015/07/22 =

• Flowplayer 6 - last preparations for the upgrade

• 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

• 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

• 2014/01/10 =

• Bugfix - critical bugfix for playlist parsing

• bugfix for wp-content paths
• fix for some warnings
• bugfix for popups and splash image at the end

• widgets problems with splash image and controlbar fixed
• cyan background color fixed

• minor bug fixes