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Video player settings

Video player settings is the Flash and video player settings in Datalife Engine, the module is for video players configuration and management that used to publish video on the Datalife Engine website, in General settings, you can specify the player size, use build-in player to play youtube video, set the watermark for embed in video and set most of everything about the video and flash player. In this tutorials we will show you the options to set and descriptions in setting options in DLE Admin CP.
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Video player settings Video player settings is the Flash and video player settings in Datalife Engine, the module is for video players configuration and management that used to publish video on the Datalife Engine website, in General settings, you can specify the player size, use build-in player to play youtube video, set the watermark for embed in video and set most of everything about the video and flash player. In this tutorials we will show you the options to set and descriptions in setting options in DLE Admin CP. This tutorial is part of DLE Amdin CP in dept cover, if you have any question regarding to the tutorial, please feel free to ask. also I am sure you are wondering how the player works in DLE, we will show the code example in other tutorials because we have users asking about the bbcode and code example in Basic Main tag and page displays so we will show all code examples in the new tutorials, this tutorial is just for setting and configuration details...
DLE Video Settings

General settings

Option Name Description Setting More Details
Width player: Specify the width in pixels for video player Width size number value in pixel This is set for how width your default video player for your site in pixel for example: 500px
Height player: Specify the height in pixels for video player Width size number value This is set for how height your default video player for your site in pixel for example: 360px
Enable automatic play: Enable automatic play movies immediately after the page loads Yes/No Specify if you want the video to play automatically when visit the page where video posted, Yes = automatically play, set to yes can cause the page slow loading for the first load and every time the page reloaded
Add watermark to video files: If 'Yes' when playing video files in the flash player, the top will display your logo. Logo itself in this case must be in the template folder /CURRENT_TEMPALTE/dleimages/flv_watermark.png Yes/No The watermark will only added to the player, it will not added to the video file itself
Location of watermark You can specify the location of the watermark on the video. Left/Center/Right If you set "Add watermark to video files: Yes" then you can specify where the watermark should be added, the edge of position is top, so if you set to "Left" then the watermark will be added to top left for example
The level of the watermark transparency You can specify the opacity of the watermark from 0 to 1, lower the value as greater the transparency of watermark. For example, 0.2, 0.3, 0.6, etc. transparency value This will specify how much transparency on the watermark logo, we recommend between 0.5 to 0.8 which is the best, personally I would go with something like 0.75 which is 25% transparency but you can set the value of your choice
Enable show similar video for Youtube If 'Yes', when playing videos of Youtube, visitors can view similar view videos. Yes/No This option is to specify if you want the Youtube related video to show after or during video playing
Use player of DLE to play movies from Youtube Service If 'Yes', when playing videos with video service Youtube will use the player built in DLE, otherwise the player provided by Youtube. Yes/No You can specify if you want youtube video to play using DLE internal player or use youtube player itself

Settings Flash Player to play FLV and MP3 formats

DLE MP3 and Flash Player Settings
Option Name Description Setting More Details
Youtube videos Quality You can set the quality of Youtube videos when the video is using the embedded with DLE player. The lower the quality, is better speed for slower Internet connection. Automatic, Low, Average, High, HD 720p - Automatic = Default Quality based on original quality
- Low = low quality and small video size
- Average = medium quality
- High = high quality and large video size
- HD 720p = highest quality with HD quality video format
Enable display the first frame as videos preview Enable this setting will show a video preview (first frame of video). Please note, this setting enables automatic buffering the video, which will effect the server traffic loads and slow user loads. Yes/No This option if enable, it will load the first frame of video as screenshot preview, this option can cause the video longer load when visit the page which video embedded
Use the standard image screenshot when displaying video player If you enable this setting will be used by the standard screenshot for video player, if the tag does not specify a different image to display a video frame. The default screenshot image should be in the template folder /YOUR TEMPLATE/dleimages/videopreview.jpg for regular video and /YOUR TEMPLATE/dleimages/youtubepreview.jpg for Youtube video Yes/No If you don't set Enable display the first frame as videos preview to yes but set this option to yes instead, then all videos will use the default preview image
- /YOUR TEMPLATE/dleimages/videopreview.jpg for regular video
- /YOUR TEMPLATE/dleimages/youtubepreview.jpg for Youtube video
Auto-hide control of the player You can enable or disable the automatic hide the player control. Yes/No You can set to auto-hide or leave player control show at all time when playing video
Video clip size option You can choose your size and the video playback property by default. You have three options, original size, video aspect ratio and player size Original, Video aspect ratio, Player size - Original = Same size of original video
- Video aspect ratio
- Player size = set to display and play the video size base on player size which specified in "General Settings"
Video buffer size in seconds Specify the video buffer size in seconds that will be loaded before playing the video. Increasing the buffer will help smoother video playback without pausing for a slow Internet connection, reducing the buffer to speed up playback videos and start playing the video faster. number of second Higher value will help users who have slow internet connection, but lower value will help video start playing faster
LED color video playback: Choose a color indicator of lost-time video, as well as the volume level. HEX format Colors for the player are given in HEX format, such as white is 0xFFFFFF. All fields are setting player colors are optional, you can leave the fields blank to script were used the default color. Attention! In order for the new settings to take effect, the news page or need to re-save, because All information is stored in a database in compiled form. (which means you must open those articles that contains video and save them again otherwise it won't take effect after settings only newly added after save settings will be applied)
Colors for the player are given in HEX format, such as white is 0xFFFFFF. All fields are setting player colors are optional, you can leave the fields blank to script were used, the default color.
Attention! In order for the new settings to take effect, the news page or need to re-save, because All information is stored in a database in compiled form.

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