Introduction to the Player Studio

About

The Player Studio lets Rich Media CMS administrators create, customize, and manage media players for use on any domain. You can configure player behavior, appearance, and viewer experience to match your organization’s needs.

With Player Studio, you can:

• Customize player features such as captions, playback speed, audio tracks, social sharing, related videos, and interactive video elements
• Design player skins to match branding requirements
• Use available SDKs and contribution libraries for plugin development
• Generate lightweight and secure embed codes for different environments

Access Player Studio

1. Log into the Rich Media CMS.
2. Click the Studio tab in the top navigation bar.



Player Studio opens and displays a list of all available players in your account.

Understand player types

Depending on your account configuration, Player Studio may display the following tabs:

• Customized Players
• Default Players

If your account does not contain Default Players, the tabs are not displayed and all players appear in a single list.

Default players

Default players are created automatically by the system.

Default players have a three-dot menu that contains two options - Edit and Duplicate. You can't create or delete Default players.

Customized players 

Customized players are created by the Rich Media CMS administrators. The Customized players have a three-dot menu that contains three options - Edit, Duplicate, and Delete.

Understand the players list

The following fields are available in the players list:

• Name - The name of the player
• ID - The ID that was automatically assigned to the player upon creation. 
• Last Modified - The last time the player was modified. 
• Creation Date - The date the player was created. 
• Plays (Last 30 days) - The number of times the player has been played in the last 30 days. 
• Domains (Last 30 days) - The number of domains from which the player has played in the last 30 days. 

From the players list, you can also:

• Search for players
• Mark players as favorites
• Sort players
• View the top five domains for a player
• Create players
• Edit players
• Duplicate players
• Update players
• Delete customized players

Search for a player

You can search for players using the search box.

Type all or part of a player name or a player ID in the search box, then click Enter to search.

Matching results display in the players list for the currently selected tab (Customized Players or Default Players).

Mark players as favorites

You can mark players as favorites to make frequently used player templates easier to find.

There are two ways to mark a player as a favorite:

• In the list of players, click the star icon to the left of the player's name. This turns the star yellow.

  

• Select a player from the list of players and click the star icon in the upper right corner of the screen. This turns the star yellow.

  

Sort players

You can sort players by:

• Name
• ID
• Last Modified
• Creation Date

Click the Starred filter to display only starred players.

View the top five domains

Hover over the number in the Domains column to view the top five domains for that player.

Create a player

Click + Create player at the top right. 

See Create a player for instructions on creating a player.

Edit a player

You can configure player settings from the edit view.

There are two ways to open the edit view.

• Click on the desired player in the Player List.
  Or
• Click on the three dots menu to the right of the desired player and choose Edit from the list.

The player settings tab opens by default.

Player settings

To learn more, visit Edit and manage players.

Duplicate a player 

You can duplicate an existing player and modify it instead of creating a new player from scratch.

1. Click the three-dot menu to the right of the player you want to duplicate and select Duplicate.

   

   The 'Duplicate' window opens.

   

2. Type a name for the new player. 
3. Click Duplicate.

The duplicated player is added to the players list.

Update a player

If a player is configured to remain on its current version and becomes outdated, an Outdated Version label displays in the players list.

You can update the player using either of the following methods:

Option 1 - Update from the Outdated Version label

1. Hover over the Outdated Version label.

An update tooltip displays.



2. Click on the tooltip.

A window opens with the player name, ID, and version.



3. Click Update Player to update. 

Option 2 - Update from the three-dot menu

1. Click the three-dot menu next to the player and choose Update to latest version. (This menu item is only enabled when the player is not set to the latest version.)

   

A window opens with the player name, ID, and version.



2. Click Update Player to update.

Delete a player

You can delete Customized players. 

1. Click the three-dot menu to the right of the player you want to delete and select Delete.

   

   A confirmation message displays.
2. Click Delete to confirm.

508 compliance

All the Studio players are 508 compliant. The player's features include:

• Support for captions file in timed text or SRT formats for the video/audio file
• Support for an audio description in a standardized format for the video/audio file
• Hidden text elements for every non-text element (for screen readers)
• Tooltips
• Keyboard tabbing and controls

CVAA compliance

All the Studio players are CVAA compliant. The player's features include:

• Studio support - Enable options menu
• Caption types: XML, SRT/DFXP, VTT (outband)
• Displaying and changing fonts in 64 color combinations using eight standard caption colors currently required for television sets.
• Adjusting character opacity
• Ability to adjust caption background in eight specified colors.
• Ability to adjust character edge (i.e., non, raised, depressed, uniform or drop shadow).
• Ability to adjust caption window color and opacity.
• Support for displaying multiple language tracks and simplified or reduced captions.
• Ability to preview setting changes, have display setting remembered between viewings and turn captions on or off as easily as muting or adjusting the volume.
• Capability of displaying various caption formats (i.e., pop-on, roll-up and paint-on)

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