Player Design and Customization

This document gives you an overview on how to modify your players by editing the player settings  from the Publishing Module of the Video Cloud studio.

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This document explains how to modify the name, hosting options, and code support for a player, along with other properties set on the Global tab of the player settings editor.

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This document explains how to restrict the videos within a player to show only in specified domains and geographic regions.

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This document explains how to assign a language for the labels of a player.

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How to add a plug-in JavaScript file or SWF to a player.

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This document explains how to modify the full screen and automatic play behavior of a player, as well as how to set bumpers, branding, viral promotion, and the content of the menu that shows in the player at the end of a video.

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This document explains how to set videos to automatically play through every video in a playlist of videos in a player.

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An overview of your options in customizing the look and functionality of your Video Cloud players. 

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After you create a player, you can customize its appearance in many ways, so that the player look & feel matches and reinforces your organization's branding, the player content, the page design, or whatever other factors drive your player design requirements. The Edit Styles view lets you customize each component of your player in practically infinite combinations of colors and styles. You can also customize image components, background images, labels, and click-through URLs.

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An introduction to styling players with the Publishing module.

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How to limit playback to a whitelist of domains.

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Learn about the different options you can use to lay out your video content and assign content to your player so that you can control the look and feel of your user's video experience. 

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A reference to all of the Video Cloud standard player templates.

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Custom themes give you fine-grained control over the appearance of your video player templates. Using BEML and custom SWF files, you can control the look and feel of nearly every part of our players. For example, you can customize the player icon set, change button states, and even tweak the opacity of player elements. This document will walk you through the basics of how to create and apply custom themes.

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Once you've added your custom player template in the Publishing module, you can create any number of instances of your custom player, just as you can with the standard Video Cloud player templates. This topic describes how you can also edit a custom template, copy a template, or delete a template.

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An introduction to the Accessible Video Player, a standard Video Cloud player template that supports accessibility features for vision and hearing impaired users, including close captioning, screenreader support, and keyboard navigation.

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An overview of The Video Cloud player architecture, with tips about how you can take advantage of it to optimize player load times.

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Delivering closed captions with the Accessible Video Player without using custom metadata fields.

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When Video Cloud players are unable to load, whether because of geographic or domain restrictions, content unavailability, or otherwise, the page displays an appropriate error message. By default, these error messages are in English. This topic describes how to localize your player error messages.

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