Player E Selection

Introduction

Player E is the latest player, and eventually all new customers automatically get Player E.

Player E is a player for VOD videos, linear channels and live events in which viewers watch media assets. The player incorporates many new features across all platforms. The following two documents discuss and contain videos that demonstrate those features:

• Player E VOD Features
• Player E Live Features

VOD Player selection

To select and configure your player, follow these steps:

1. In the primary navigation, click Layout.
2. Click Settings .

3. The App Settings page appears. In Assets, click Videos to start.

   

4. Click Player to see how the player displays information about the currently playing video.

   

5. You can change the layouts of the thumbnail, either Landscape or Portrait.
   • Landscape: Landscape images are displayed on the page.
   • Portrait: Portrait images are displayed on the page.

   

   

Episodic content Player selection

To select and configure your player, follow these steps:

1. In the primary navigation, click Layout.
2. Click Settings .
3. The App Settings page appears. In Assets, click Episodic content to start.

   

4. Click Player to see how the player displays information about the currently playing video.
5. This is how the player is displayed. The blueprint preview shows a diagram of the player.

   

Live events Player selection

1. In the primary navigation, click Layout.
2. Click Settings .
3. The App Settings page appears. In Assets, click Live events to start.

   

4. Click Player to see how the player displays information about the currently playing video.
5. This is how the player is displayed. The blueprint preview shows a diagram of the player.

   

Channels

When the viewer clicks the Channels button in the app, the list of channels can be displayed in two different ways:

• List view
• Grid view

To set this value, follow these steps:

1. In the primary navigation, click Layout.
2. Click Settings .

3. The App Settings page appears. In Assets, click Channels to start.

   

4. The two options are displayed:

   

5. The previews of the two layouts are shown here:

   

   

Default Audio Track Selection

Default Audio Selection allows you to listen to content in your preferred language based on your previous explicitly audio track selection and removing the need to select it again, after switching videos.

General behavior: If you explicitly select a audio track on the Beacon app, that audio track language will be used as a reference to auto-select the same audio track on the following video (if that audio track language is available). This option is saved locally on each device.