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Editing Settings for Players
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.
By selecting a player or group of players in the Publishing Module and clicking Edit Settings, your can set and modify properties for your players, including the player name, access restrictions, API availability, hosting options, geo-filtering, search options, video promotion tools, and player behavior.
If you haven't created a player yet, do so by following the steps in Studio Jumpstart: Making Your First Video Cloud Player, or read Getting Started with Video Cloud Studio to get an overview.
Modifying player settings
To configure or edit the settings of a player:
- In the Publishing module, select one or more players.
- Click Settings in the action toolbar below the list of players. Alternatively, if you have selected only one player, you can double-click that player.
- In Edit Settings, change the settings you want to apply to the player on the player setting tabs.
- Click Save Changes to apply your updates to the player.
The player setting tabs: an overview
The Edit Settings dialog presents editing options on separate tabs, based on the major components of the selected player. Note that some of these features are available only in some Video Cloud editions, and that some depend on the characteristics of the player template.
On the Global tab you can:
- Rename a player and provide a short description
- Assign hosting options for a player
- Enable a player to load as an HTML5 player when Flash is not supported
- Enable a player to load and use the Video Cloud ActionScript, and JavaScript Player APIs
Read more about setting the player properties on the Global tab.
On the Availability tab you can:
- Restrict all videos within a player to show only in listed domains
- Set geographic filtering for players
Read more about setting the player properties on the Availability tab.
On the Language Options tab you can:
- Set the language for the labels of your player, or use a customized set of player labels
Read more about setting the player properties on the Language Options tab.
On the Plug-In tab you can:
- Customize a player by adding plug-in SWFs
Read more about setting the player properties on the Plug-In tab.
On the Video Player tab you can:
- Modify full screen behavior
- Set a video to play automatically when the player loads
- Set bumpers
- Control the branding of a player
- Configure viral promotion
- Control the contents of the menu that displays at the end of a video
Read more about setting the player properties on the Video Player tab.
On the Video List tab you can:
- Enable or disable videos to advance automatically through a playlist
Read more about setting the player properties on the Video List tab.
