Playback functionality

Overview

This article covers the Kaltura Player controls. Each component can be tailored to fit your organization’s needs, and compliant with the highest accessibility standards.

Bottom Control Bar

The Viewer Bottom Control Bar is located at the bottom of the player. 

Progress bar

• The progress bar, aka scrubber, lets you dynamically seek any time position within the currently playing video.
  When hovering over the scrubber, the thumbnail of the relevant point in the video and the timestamp (web only) are displayed. Click on the scrubber to get to the relevant point in the video.
  

Left Controls

• The play/pause button pauses or plays the recording. You can also click on the video and it will pause or play the recording. When the recording is over the Reply button will appear instead of the play/pause button.
  
• The seek backward button rewinds the video for 10 seconds and replays it. This is helpful if you miss a small phrase or word and need it to be repeated.
  
• The seek forward button progresses the video for 10 seconds and replays it. This is helpful if you want to skip a small part of the video. The time indicator displays the current time and the duration of the video. [Time Display format=current/total]

Right Controls

• The volume control plugin allows you to control the player's volume using mute/unmute buttons and a volume slider.
  

  

• The language control allows you to select the captions' languages, the audio track as well as advanced captions settings.
  If a video has both captions and multi-audio tracks, the language button is displayed on the player by default to allow the user to navigate between languages and turn off captions.

  

  

• If the video has only captions but no multi-audio tracks – the CC button is displayed by default instead of the languages button.
  Click on Advanced captions settings to open the CVAA  (Communications and Video Accessibility Act) screen. By default, there are 3 options for captions styling. After you define a custom style for captions, it is added to the default styles available on the main CVAA screen.
  

• The settings control allows you to select the playback quality and speed.

• Click to select an option from the Quality Settings menu that appears on your device.
  Click to select the Playback Speed value from the menu that appears on your device.
  

• The fullscreen control allows you to watch videos that take up your entire screen.  

  

• Picture-in-Picture - will be added to the player's button bar in case more than one stream is available. The default layout presents the primary video in the larger player and the secondary video minimized. To learn more, see Dual Screen.
  

Top Control Bar

The Viewer Top Control Bar is located at the top of the player.

Right Controls

• The In-Video Search displayed as a magnifying glass on your screen indicates that the video has been enriched with metadata to help you navigate and discover the content in addition to the video itself. 

  

• The Info button provides information about the video. For example the video’s Name, Description, and Creation Date.

  

• The Transcript widget displays the captions file in a transcription window alongside or underneath the player, and allows searching and jumping to specific times when a word was spoken.

  

• The Share button allows sharing content via different options, such as via URL, Email, embed code, and social media.
  
• The More button (three dots icon) will reveal a drop-down with the additional plugins available to the player. See an example in the following graphic: