FAQ: Publishing Module

Once you've created a player, you can assign one or more playlists to it, using the Media module. See Assigning Content to Players. If your player template doesn't accept playlists, you can assign a video to it using Quick Video Publish or assign content to the player programmatically by editing parameters in the publishing code for the player and specifying the video ID property of the video you want to play. See Assigning Content to Players Programmatically.

You can use the style editor in the Publishing module to change the look and feel of every visual component of a Video Cloud player. In addition, if you are a Video Cloud Pro or Enterprise customer, you can create custom player templates, which offers you a much richer, more powerful scope for customizing players. A custom player template can let you create a player with an enormous variety of combinations of layouts, usiing standard or custom-developed components.

The Video Cloud standard player templates are designed by default to use either a 4:3 or a 16:9 (widescreen) aspect ratio. However, for single title players, you can easily modify the player's publishing code to change the aspect ratio.

For example, by default the JavaScript player publishing code for the Chromeless Player includes the following parameters:

<param name="width" value="480" />
<param name="height" value="270" />

This results in a 16:9 aspect ratio. You can change this to a 4:3 ratio by modifying the height value as follows:

<param name="width" value="480" />
<param name="height" value="360" />

This can be applied if you are using ActionScript or HTML player publishing code as well. See Player Configuration Parameters for more details.

When modifying the width and height values of a player, you must also compensate for the controls at the bottom by making sure your player is 6 pixels wider than your video and 52 pixels higher than your video. This is why our default 480x360 Video Player has a total size of 486x412.

The Video Cloud Studio Publishing module is a user-interface module you can use to design, customize, and manage your video players. The Publishing module gives you the ability to style the out-of-the-box or custom player templates in a highly interactive and user friendly model. Players created in the Publishing module leverage the AS3 and HTML5 technology to achieve faster performance and a richer, more flexible viewer experience. Using pre-defined components or custom components you develop, you can assemble unique player templates with powerful features.