[KVS 5.0.1 update]

Thanks for your good news, but I have two questions.

 

"Meanwhile KVS 5.0 will only be available for new installations."

Is that mean current KVS sites will not able to upgrade to 5.0? Or just mean we need to install a fresh 5.0, and old data is still able to import?

 

And your homepage is showing "5.0 version is available" (https://www.kernel-video-sharing.com/images/special/kvs-v5-2.jpg), but actually it don't have a release day yet?

[KVS 5.0 implementation (was 4.1)]

It is possible to design your own player styles with CSS and use them. Right now we do not have any plans to adjust player styles.

 

For the new version, please wait for announcement next week.

 

Seems good, is it 4.1 and will support PHP 7?

[KVS 5.0 implementation (was 4.1)]

 

Yes, we have this in future plans.

 

Oh I just found that on your post, sorry for missed it. And shopping cart feature is great also!

[KVS 5.0 implementation (was 4.1)]

Hello, I just have an inspiration, are you able to add Bitcoin / CryptoCurrency payment gateway?

[KVS 5.0 implementation (was 4.1)]

 

We can't simply upgrade to 7.0 because they changed their HTML layout, so all skins will stop working. Some customers are using their own custom skins, which will stop working after the upgrade.

For now we do not see any reason why to upgrade to 7.0, our player doesn't have any performance issues and also its skin is much more modern than flowplayer 7.

 

Got it and thank you! And how about support PHP 7? Performance can be increase a lot for sure.

[KVS 5.0 implementation (was 4.1)]

Hello, may I know if there is possible to upgrade flowplayer to version 7? I know you have made lots of change on it, but flowplayer 7 should have better performance and more modern.

[KVS 5.0 implementation (was 4.1)]

 

Please check the original post and its (3) HLS format investigation.

We will add support for this or other adaptive format finally, but not sure which version.

 

We do not agree that it should be on high priority list, because:

- This doesn't affect your monetization in much way

- Most KVS clients use short videos, there is no much visible performance difference between MP4 and HLS for short videos

- You can save bandwidth cost with KVS even without using HLS format, check this guide:

https://www.kernel-video-sharing.com/forum/forum/educational-support/educational-series/34-how-to-save-bandwidth-with-kvs-tube-script

 

However using HLS brings disk space issue, conversion speed issue and video protection issue. If you want to allow download, you will have to keep MP4s, this doubles your space and conversion time. Also it looks like MPEG-DASH is going to be a standard, so maybe not much sense to encode all videos into HLS, so that later you have to re-encode them in MPEG-DASH. During the investigation planned for 4.1 we will look at all possible options and will see what we are able to implement, so that old customers can convert into adaptive formats if needed.

 

Got it, thank you for your detailed answer :)

[KVS 5.0 implementation (was 4.1)]

Hi, do you have any plan on HLS support (.ts file format) now? I have asked this question on last year, and you said it's planned on 4.0.

I know it may difference, but I think this feature should be on high priority list, it have much better performance than single video file, also save bandwidth cost.

[KVS 4.0 implementation (previously was 3.9.2)]

Hi, interested on HLS support, may I know does this function have development schedule? And will there have a tool to help us to convert current video to ts format?