Player States

Use the “Player state” settings to determine the appearance and behaviour of the player’s start, pause, hover and end screen.

To access the “Player state” settings:

• Go to Playouts in the left menu;
• Head over to the third tab Player states to customize the player’s start, pause, hover and end screen.

1.0 | Show (Start, Pause, Hover and End states)

Use the first section to change the appearance of the start, pause and end state:

• Center Controls
  Check/uncheck this box to show/hide the play button. The center controls are slightly different for each player state:Start state

  
  Pause state
  
  Hover state
  
  End state

• Title
  Show/hide the title of your video. Learn more about metadata. 
• Author & Copyright
  Show/hide the author and copyright of your video. Learn more about metadata.
  • Author & copyright prefix text
    Set the ‘prefix’ for the author and copyright text (for example “source:”).
• Duration (start screen only)
  This setting show a timestamp on the start screen below the play button. 
  
• Show moving thumbnail (start screen only)
  Moving thumbnails are generated for each new video that is uploaded to your account. A moving thumbnail skips the first two seconds of the video and then plays the following five seconds in a loop.When disabled a static thumbnail is used instead. When enabled:
  • Desktop: the thumbnail animates when the cursor hovers over the video player.
  • Mobile: the thumbnail animates once the video is in view.
• Related clips (pause/end screen only)
  When enabled, related content will be displayed during the pause and/or end screen.
  
  • Playlist for related clips
    Select a Playlist to determine the related clips that will be shown. When no playlist is selected, the player will select a related item based on relevant metadata. Learn more about creating and managing playlists.
  • Use deep link for related items
    Deep links can be set in the clip metadata. When enabled, clicking a related item will not play the content in the current player; but instead the viewer will visit the deep link URL configured for that particular clip. Learn more about metadata.
  • Randomize related clips
    Enable this setting to apply a random order of related clips.
• Show last video frame (end screen only)
  By default, the last frame of the video is shown on the endscreen. Disable this setting to display the video thumbnail instead.

2.0 | Autoplay Next

You can choose to automatically play the next clip after a countdown:

• Only when pre-roll ad is available
  Only play the next clip automatically if there’s a pre-roll advertisement available (only applicable when pre-rolls are configured on the playout).
• Autoplay next timeout (seconds)
  Enter the amount of seconds the player should wait before starting the next media clip. The default value is 8 seconds.