Video Player Page

Who can use this feature

Site Admin, Channel Admin

Supported features: Videos, System Pages

Access

To access this page, navigate to 'System Pages' through 'Pages' tab in the left panel. From the list of pages either click on the page title or edit link on the right.

Customizable Elements

VOD Player Page comes with three customizable elements; Supplemental Text, Social Sharing and Related Videos. Every modification that is made on page level will be reflected throughout the portal. However, these settings can be overridden from VOD container page, allowing customization on content level.

Supplemental Description

This element allows you to add a default customized message for the video player’s page. Information can be in a Text or HTML Code format. Links and buttons can also be added to re-direct viewers to supporting pages including Payments or Donations through the HTML code option.

Social Sharing

Toggle on/off allows you to control visibility of social sharing on your video player page. When turned on it provides social share option for LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Social sharing can turned on/off for an individual video. To do so, simply go to 'Library' tab, click on the video title to navigate to its respective container page. Once inside the container go to 'Social Sharing' tab and override the default settings. Make sure you save your changes by clicking on the 'Save' button otherwise the change will not take affect.

Live Comments

Live Comments allow for dialogue between your brand and your users. The single sign on feature means once you’ve logged into the platform your user account will automatically be logged into ‘Live Comments’.

The Vidflex™ Live Comments feature (powered by GraphComments) allows you to leverage the popularity of your platform, by not only creating useful or entertaining videos, but by managing the comments section as well.

Learn more about Live Comments →

Live Chat

Toggle on/off Live Chat to activate. The Vidflex™ chat feature gives you the ability to communicate alongside your video with your audience using frontend moderation and real-time messaging.

Moderation options on player page include:

  • Start/Stop Live Chat
  • Messaging, Emoji's, GIF's, etc.
  • Ban, Delete, and/or Report Users

Related Videos

Toggle on/off Related Videos In Player allows you to control display a video slider inside the video player when playback is paused and when it ends. Only videos that share the same attributes will get displayed inside the player carousel.

Select the Carousel View to display those videos and then choose whether you want the Autoplay setting on/off. When autoplay is on, a related video will automatically play after the current video finishes.

Toggle on/off Related Videos In Page allows you to control display a video slider at the bottom of a videos page. Only videos that share the same attributes will get displayed in this area.

Player Page Template

VOD (video on demand) containers have two different layouts:

  1. Default View
  2. Video With Right Related List

These containers will have the option of setting its layout as a global setting and the option of setting either as the over-ride of the global setting within a specific VOD container itself.

Override Page Setting

Easily override any system page setting on an individual container. Follow the steps below to learn how to do this.

Steps

  1. Under Channel Settings, click on Library
  2. Find and Edit the video container you need
  3. On its General tab along the right side, you'll see individual boxes labelled as the system page setting
  4. Find the setting you need to override and toggle to the "Override default setting". This unlocks the ability to change the state of that setting
  5. Toggle the state on or off
  6. Save changes