Templates are ready set up configs for your player. They include customisation options of colours, buttons, behaviour settings (such as click-to-play or autoplay or sound options), proportions, playback and more. You can create a few needed templates and use them in your players when needed.
For example you can create two video players with unique templates, one is for classic videos: click-to-play, sound on; and another one for modern in-page placement with autoplayed videos sound off to make them play similar as on Facebook or X.
Viqeo has a few pre-installed templates (presets) but you can create as many as you need.
Default template is applied to all newly uploaded videos. You can set any preset as Default style.
To setup any template press Settings button under the needed template name.
To add a new template press Add template button.
Template Settings
Player Style
Here you can set up elements and style of your player.
Progress bar — Show/Hide progress bar. No forward/rewind are available if hidden.
Sound button — Show/Hide Sound volume icon and controls
Quality button — Show/Hide Button with selection of video streams
Play button — Show/Hide Play/Pause button
Fullscreen button — Show/Hide fullscreen mode button
Subtitles button – Show/Hide subtitles
Share button — Show/Hide Share video options
Video download available — Show/Hide Right menu option for video download by viewer.
Note, that the Video download available option is always on for the content owner/editor. Use incognito mode to check if it’s off for other users.
Color — the main color of the player. It affects progress bar, volume icon and some others colours of the player UI.
Copyright sign — The way copyright is shown or hidden. Copyright can be shown in the top left corner of the video only if the video was downloaded by URL. You can select options to show an author's name or just 'Watch an original' sign.
⚠️ After preset is changed it will be applied to new videos only. This is a protection against messing up old settings. To apply new preset settings to already existed video you have to:
1) open video settings
2) select preset in 'Player' section
3) publish new settings
Playback Style
Player dimensions — Proportions and size of a player. Basically, a player is flexible and takes the proportions of the video being played. For the width, the player always gets the full width of the article if not placed in a controlled div element.
Smart Fit dimension shows vertical videos in their original size on Mobile devices and limits them by square area on Desktop, so they don't take too much space on the screen. Horizontal videos are shown as they are both on Mobiles & Desktop.
As video option makes the player to repeat video played video proportions.
16/9, 4/3, Square dimensions set player proportions as selected.
Fill page element — player fits the div-element it is placed in
Sound starts — How sound is started when video playback is started. Basically, all autoplayed videos are started muted. We don't recommend to autoplay videos with sound as they can be blocked by some browsers and it is annoying users. For the videos started manually you can choose how they should be started with or without sound.
On video start — Sound will be started when video starts
Muted by default (classic sound button) – classic sound button is on the screen
Muted by default (proactive sound button)– sound button with "Sound on" text is on the screen
⚠️ Note that there can be different restrictions in browsers for sound playback.
Video starts — How videos are started.
Autoplay for all visible videos – all videos visible on the screen start automatically
Autoplay for one visible videos – one visible video starts automatically . If there are a few other videos visible on the screen the only one which is the closest to the center of the screen will be played.
Click to play – video starts by a click
Mouse over – video starts on a mouse hover
Page loaded – video starts after page is loaded without any extra conditions.
Autoplay with delay — Player will be created as a click-to-play, but if 5 seconds pass than it will be autoplayed.
After video is finished — What to do after the video is finished to play.
Replay button – replay button appears.
Loop — video plays from the beginning. So looped videos never stop. This is the most popular option for short videos.
Stop at last frame — video stops when the last frame is reached. No fade-offs, no elements. The best way to show 'Animated images' When you want to animate something which becomes an image at the end.
Play next recommended video – next video from Recommended folder plays automatically.
Player language – By default player uses User UI language but you can force any language by selecting it from the list.