FV Player 8

FV Player is a free, easy-to-use, and complete solution for embedding MP4 or HLS videos into your posts or pages. With MP4 videos, FV Player offers 98% coverage even on mobile devices.

Features:

• Remembering video position for both guest users and members
• Chromecast and Airplay support
• Video playlists
• Automated checking of video encoding for logged in admins
• Totally Brandable. Stop selling YouTube and start selling yourself. Even design your own player
• Full support for Amazon S3
• YouTube support
• Integration with the Bunny Stream video encoding service
• Integration with the Coconut.co video encoding service – using a free addon plugin: https://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-player-coconut
• API for custom video fields
• iframe embed codes
• Ultra-efficient player: just 41.8kB of Javascript. Rest is loaded later when user is going to play the video

Video presentation options:

• Scroll autoplay with the sticky video option
• Sticky video playback
• Video lightbox (works for images and galleries too, using fancyBox 3)
• Video links to point to exact time in the video

Video tracking options:

• Built-in video play stats
• Google Analytics 4
• Matomo

Pro features using the commercial FV Player Pro:

• easy AB looped playback for your visitors (great for teaching sites)
• Encrypted video support
• DRM watermark
• Video Chapters
• Full-featured Vimeo embedding
• Support for URL tokens of different CDNs: Bunny CDN, CloudFront, StackPath and Universal CDN
• Support for other video services: Vimeo, OK.ru, Odysee, PeerTube (incuding support for your own instance)
• Autoplay video only once for each visitor
• Interactive video transcript
• Timeline previews

Other extensions:

• Alternative Sources plugin for backup CDN configuration
• Cloudflare Stream plugin
• JW Player platform plugin
• Pay Per View plugin for Easy Digital Downloads and WooCommerce
• VAST plugin
• Viloud Live Streaming platform support
• Video Bookmarks and User Playlists plugin

Back to school special 25% off pro licenses until end of September.

Additional Documentation at Foliovision.com

Support | Change Log | Installation| User Guide | Detailed FAQ

External Services

FV Player uses the following external services all of which are optional:

• FV Player Pro license checks via foliovision.com – only used if you click the button to install FV Player Pro extension
• AWS – if you setup Amazon S3 with FV Player
• DigitalOcean Spaces – if you setup DigitalOcean Spaces with FV Player
• Google API via googleapis.com and gdata.youtube.com – if you setup YouTube API key to be able to obtain video splash screens, video titles and duration information when inserting videos from YouTube
• Bunny Stream API via video.bunnycdn.com – only if you setup Bunny Stream
• FV Video Checker on video-checker.foliovision.com – when you install the plugin you are prompted if you allow access to your video files to check for video encoding issues. This can also be disabled using the « Disable Admin Video Checker » setting later.
• Wistia embed codes if you use post Wistia videos