A Player (that is, a multimedia file player) is essential for your media when you integrate the latter on your VOD/AOD Infomaniak space in order to offer them to your viewers & internet users.

Create a Player

To create a Player:

1. Click here to access the management of your product on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
2. Click directly on the name assigned to the product in question.
3. Click on Players in the left sidebar.
4. Click on the blue button to add a new Player:
   
5. You then arrive on the configuration page and tabs (or menus) allow you to manage several aspects of the Player, such as the playback bar at the bottom and the share icons:
   

1. Tab Playback

This is where you can name the Player and customize the elements that should be there or not:

• playback bar (with or without disappearing after X seconds of inactivity)
• Forward and Rewind button
• display of the playback progress and, if applicable, display of thumbnails on the playback bar
• volume control
• media duration
• display full screen
• Chromecast (if you display it, the option can be activated by a viewer using the Chrome browser and having a Chromecast on the same network)
• Infomaniak logo
• “Skip Introduction” button and if so, at which timecode to send the viewer

It is also possible to choose MPEG-DASH playback mode instead of the default HLS, to start playback automatically (autoplay) when the media is loaded, and to force the display of subtitles (which the viewer can always disable if they wish).

2. Appearance tab

Here you can choose the colors and styles (templates) for the Player, as well as a logo and the display of the media title and description.

3. Share tab

This is where you can choose the permissions regarding sharing and integration of the Player on other sites.

4. Tab End Screen

This is where you can set a global behavior for the Player's end screen (for example, suggesting the next video to watch based on what is in the same folder). You can also adjust these parameters individually for each video.

5. Tab Advertising

The Pre-roll, Mid-roll, and Post-roll are managed here. Refer to this other guide for more information.

6. Thumbnails tab

This is where you can choose the images visible when the media is loading, or unavailable/restricted (this does not replace the video thumbnail).

Edit a Player

To modify and access the settings of an existing Player:

1. Click here to access the management of your product on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
2. Click directly on the name assigned to the product in question.
3. Click on Players in the left sidebar.
4. Click directly on the name assigned to the concerned Player:
   

Full screen button

It is not possible to automatically display the media directly in full screen at the start of playback.

You need to click to start playback, then click the full-screen button, which you should have added beforehand to your Player under the Playback tab: