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Viewing Videos with Brightcove Players
Let's examine the components of a Video Cloud player and describe the player controls from the viewer's point of view. For this example, we'll use the Tabbed Navigation 3.0 player template, since it has the most components.
Tabbed Navigation 3.0 Player
Player components
Overlay menu
This menu displays in the video display window when the video is paused. You can disable the overlay menu in the Edit Settings: Video Player dialog.
Player control bar
This gives the viewer controls to play, pause, or advance the video. It also displays:
- viral promotion tools (email this, get link, get embed code). You can disable these buttons in the Edit Settings: Video Player dialog.
- full screen button. You can disable this button in the Edit Settings: Video Player dialog.
- Brightcove logo. You can disable display of this logo in the Edit Settings: Video Player dialog.
Player menu
This menu button causes a set of buttons to display at the bottom of the video display.
The player menu displays some or all of these buttons, depending on how you have configured the Video End Screen options in the Edit Settings: Video Player dialog:
- Email This. Create an email message with a link to the player.
- Get Link. Copy to the clipboard a link to the player.
- Get Code. Copy code to embed the player in an HTML page.
- Blog this. Viewers can select a blog publishing service (Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, or WordPress), enter their blog username and password, and immediately create a blog entry from the player.
- Info. Displays links to Brightcove's Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.
Related link
Optionally, for each video, you can provide a URL viewers can go to. You set the related link and the tooltip text viewers see when they mouse over the related link in the Media module Edit Video Properties dialog.
Logo overlay
A transparent image that displays over a corner of the video display .
Playlist tabs
Viewers can use the tabs to move between playlists assigned to the player. If there are more playlists than can be displayed on the tab bar, the player displays at the end of the tab bar a button that opens a drop-down menu with the playlists.
