Live Event Player Page

Who can use this feature

Site Admin, Channel Admin

Supported features: Live Events, System Pages

Access

To access this page, navigate to 'System Pages' through 'Pages' tab in the left panel. From the list of pages either click on the page title or edit link on the right.

Customizable Elements

Live Player Page comes with five customizable elements; Supplemental Text, Social Sharing, Polling, Closed Captioning and Related Videos. Every modification that is made on page level will be reflected throughout the portal. However, these settings can be overridden from VOD container page, allowing customization on content level.

Supplemental Description

This element allows you to add a default customized message for the video player’s page. Information can be in a Text or HTML Code format. Links and buttons can also be added to re-direct viewers to supporting pages including Payments or Donations through the HTML code option.

Social Sharing

Toggle on/off allows you to control visibility of social sharing on your video player page. When turned on it provides social share option for LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Social sharing can turned on/off for an individual video. To do so, simply go to 'Library' tab, click on the video title to navigate to its respective container page. Once inside the container go to 'Social Sharing' tab and override the default settings. Make sure you save your changes by clicking on the 'Save' button otherwise the change will not take affect.

Live Comments

Live Comments allow for dialogue between your brand and your users. The single sign on feature means once you’ve logged into the platform your user account will automatically be logged into ‘Live Comments’.

The Vidflex™ Live Comments feature (powered by GraphComments) allows you to leverage the popularity of your platform, by not only creating useful or entertaining videos, but by managing the comments section as well.

Learn more about Live Comments →

Live Chat

Toggle on/off Live Chat to activate. The Vidflex™ chat feature gives you the ability to communicate alongside your video with your audience using frontend moderation and real-time messaging.

Moderation options on player page include:

Start/Stop Live Chat
Messaging, Emoji's, GIF's, etc.
Ban, Delete, and/or Report Users

Polling

Polling is a powerful feature that gives you the ability to ask your audience customizable questions during a live streamed event. When the polls are over you can choose to display which users had the most correct answers and export the polling data for your own purposes.

Learn more about Polling

Closed Captioning

Closed Captioning is an advanced featured for live streaming. This setting only works if you have the proper equipment that can generate live captions and add them to your live stream.

Leave this setting disabled if you do not have a live captioning device.

Live Player Page

Live Event player page has a default layout only.

These containers will have the option of setting its layout as a global setting and the option of setting either as the over-ride of the global setting within a specific Live Event container itself.

Override Page Setting

Easily override any system page setting on an individual container. Follow the steps below to learn how to do this.

Steps

Under Channel Settings, click on Library
Find and Edit the video container you need
On its General tab along the right side, you'll see individual boxes labelled as the system page setting
Find the setting you need to override and toggle to the "Override default setting". This unlocks the ability to change the state of that setting
Toggle the state on or off
Save changes