FAQ: Publishing Module

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What is the Publishing module?

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 HTML5 and Flash 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.

How do I add content to my player?

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.

What player templates are available?

You can use the Publishing module to choose one of the many standard player templates for your players. In addition, if you are a Video Cloud Pro or Enterprise customer, you can create custom player templates and add them your account.

What is a custom player template?

If you are a Video Cloud Pro or Enterprise customer, you can create custom player templates, which offer 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, using standard or custom-developed components. See Developing Player Templates for information on how to create your own player templates.

How do I select my default viral title player?

You can use Video Cloud Studio to select a single-video player to be the player used when a virally syndicated video from your account is played. Set the default viral player in the Account Settings page of Video Cloud Studio.

How do I style players?

You can use the visual style editor in the Publishing module to style players. For more information on the visual style editor, see Setting Styles for Players. Pro and Enterprise accounts can use the Brightcove Experience Markup Language (BEML) to create and style custom player templates from standard components. For more information see Themes and Styles in Player Templates.

How can I change a player's aspect ratio?

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.

What fonts do Video Cloud players use?

The labels in all of our standard player templates use the Arial system font made available by the viewer's machine or the default sans serif font face if Arial, for some reason, is not available. Using custom player templates, Video Cloud Pro and Enterprise customers can create player templates that use any available font. See Player Fonts for more information.