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Players
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Players
To create a new configuration simply click the + New player button.
Player configurations have the following options:
Learn more about what a player configuration is in our getting started with players.
Under the general options you can:
You can configure the way the player behaves with the following options:
The hostname should be written without protocol or port and should not include the path to a specific page. If your content is accessible with both a www.domain.com and a domain.com url, you need to enter both versions.
If you would like to allow all subdomains you can enter *.domain.com to allow domain.com as well as all subdomains (hosts) of domain.com such as www.domain.com, web.domain.com, sub.domain.com, etc.
Examples of good hostnames are:
flowplayer.com
play.flowplayer.com
embed.cnn.com
comcast.com
*.domain.com
localhost
my.very.own.hostname.org
Examples of incorrectly specified hostnames are:
http://play.flowplayer.com
//embed.cnn.com
embed.cnn.com:8888
localhost:5000
localhost:80
https://comcast.com/page
http://my.very.own.hostname.org
my.hostname.org/page
We also offer advanced content protection options as part of the Enterprise plan which allow you to:
Please contact us if you want to purchase custom content protection solutions.
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You can configure the appearance of the player in several ways:
Plugins are used to add more features and functionality to the player. Many plugins are simply on/off, they add features to the player by simply being selected, but certain plugins are configurable. These are configured with the form that appears when clicking the Open config button after the plugin is selected.
Add a plugin by clicking and then selecting the plugin you want.
If the plugin is configurable, choose your options.
Here are descriptions of the plugins that are currently available:
If you're subscribed to a Professional or Enterprise plan, you have the possibility to specify which ad schedule a video player should use, or deciding not to have an ad schedule for the video player.
If you want to programatically override the ad configuration you can do that using the JavaScript embed. An example how it could look is shown below. Please visit the player ad configuration documentation for a full sample documentation.
<div data-player-id="cdcc4202-ef0b-4e03-a43a-d1fcf6d83157">
<script src="//cdn.flowplayer.com/players/ffdf2c44-aa29-4df8-a270-3a199a1b119e/native/flowplayer.async.js">
{
"src": "f576651c-4cc6-4664-84fa-bb3b35ef1aba",
"ima": { "ads": [{
"time": 0,
"adTag": "https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?sz=640x480&iu=/124319096/external/single_ad_samples&ciu_szs=300x250&impl=s&gdfp_req=1&env=vp&output=vast&unviewed_position_start=1&cust_params=deployment%3Ddevsite%26sample_ct%3Dskippablelinear&correlator=" }] }
}
</script>
</div>
In above sample codes,
data-player-id="<player id>"
identifies the skinning and behavior configuration you created. You can see the id in the page url when selecting a player design.//cdn.flowplayer.com/players/<site id>/native/flowplayer.async.js
is the url of the hosted player script, specific to your workspace/site."src": "<videoid>"
contains the Flowplayer videoid if it's a remote asset, or "src": "//edge.flowplayer.org/bauhaus.m3u8"
is the url to the video stream/file."my_configuration"
is a dummy for the various additional player configuration optionsFor more advanced configuration options if you host the content yourself please see the documentation on player configuration of the source. You can also see more information about supported media formats.
Flowplayer has a very extensive Player API and if you want you can override or extend the player configuration using styling and JavaScript.
Likewise, you can activate plugins which do not have an UI configuration option through the plugins:
configuration option . Examples would be the google-analytics
, comscore
, fas
or cuepoints
plugins.
Live streaming
Live analytics
Ad scheduling
Monetization