Sitewide FV Player Defaults is the second list of settings you can find in Settings > FV Player > Setup tab. As the name implies, it groups all the options that somehow concern setting the defaults for all videos on your website.
Sitewide FV Player Defaults in the plugin settings
The default settings can always be overridden for individual videos in the shortcode editor (for more info see Post Interface Options). Here is a full list of settings you can find here:
List of settings:
- Autoplay
- Auto Buffering
- Default Video Size
- Disabling the Settings That are On by Default
- Flash Streaming Server
- Fullscreen Button
- Google Analytics ID
- Logo
- Play Button
- Playlist Style
- Sharing Text
- Speed Buttons and Speed Step
- Splash Image
- Subtitles On By Default
- Use Video Lightbox for Images as Well
- Use Video Lightbox for WP Galleries
Autoplay
The first video on each page will start to play automatically. Does not work on most of the mobile devices due to the core device restrictions. You can read the full guide on how to use Autoplay here.
Auto Buffering
The feature is temporary disabled at this moment.
This option will make the browser buffer the first two videos on your page even before they are played. That will make the playback even more smooth, since the videos will be pre-loaded.
Default Video Size
In the Sitewide FV Player Defaults, you can also set the default player size. Just go to the option Default Video Size and fill the width and height values (in pixels). This will be the default setting for all your new videos, unless you change the player dimensions for a video individually in the shortcode editor.
Disabling the Settings That are On by Default
In this part of the FV Player settings you can disable some of the options that are turned on by default. These are:
- Disable Admin Video Checker - learn more in the guide How to Use the Built-in Video Checker
- Disable Embed Button - learn more in the guide Using the Iframe Embedding
- Disable Playlist Autoadvance - learn more in the guide How to Create Playlists
- Disable Sharing - learn more in the guide Managing Social Sharing Buttons
- Disable Video Links - learn more in the guide Creating Video Links in FV Player
FV Player options that are turned on by default
Flash Streaming Server
Here you can add your default RTMP streaming server. This default setting currently only supports streams distributed by Amazon CloudFront. You can find more information about how to set up an RTMP stream in this guide - How to use RTMP streams with Flash.
Fullscreen Button
This option is turned on by default. It will add a button to the top-right corner of FV Player that will allow users to switch videos to fullscreen and back.
FV Player's fullscreen button.
Note: Some devices (like iPhones and iPods with iOS older than 10) enforce fullscreen by default and this setting won't affect it.
Google Analytics ID
Here you can put the ID that you can acquire from your Google Analytics account, thus enabling tracking your videos and ads. Read all about how to integrate Google Analytics with FV Player and how to track the performance of your videos in this guide - Using Google Analytics with FV Player.
Logo
This feature is only available to the users who own the FV Player Pro license. Here you can upload the image file of your logo and choose a position in the drop-down list on the right. We recommend using the transparent PNG format with width below 100 pixels. If you do not enter any image, no logo will displayed.
Adding and adjusting a custom logo in FV Player Pro
Play Button
This option is turned on by default and it will turn on the play button in FV Player's control bar. That will allow users to pause and play the video.
FV Player's Play button.
Playlist Style
This drop-down list will allow you to select one of the playlist styles and set it as a default for all the playlists you will create. You can always overwrite the default for each individual video by selecting one of the styles in the shortcode editor.
The playlists that don't have specified a playlist style (thus are using the default setting) will also be affected. You can read more about using playlists in FV Player in this guide - How to Create Playlists.
Sharing Text
This option will allow you to set a default line of text, that will be rendered when a user decides to share a video via email. The format of the email will therefore be {your sharing text} + {link to the page where the video is posted}. The user can of course edit this before sending. More info about sharing videos with FV Player can be found here - Managing Social Sharing Buttons.
Speed Buttons and Speed Step
Speed Buttons is a feature that will allow users to increase or decrease the speed of playback in a video. This option will activate this feature on all the videos on your website, unless specified otherwise in the shortcode.
Speed Step will let you choose the value by which the speed will increase or decrease.
You can read the full guide on Speed Buttons here - How to Use the Speed Buttons.
Splash Image
As mentioned above, you can set a splash image in the shortcode editor for each video individually. There is also an option in the settings that allows you to set a default splash image for all your videos, unless you chage it manually. You can find it in Sitewide FV Player Defaults under the name Splash Image. Here you can upload the image in the same way, as you would upload a logo.
Subtitles On By Default
If you have subtitles set for a video, the user who plays it will see them by default and can turn them off, if he wants. Normally it's the other way around - videos start with the subtitles turned off. You can read more on how to use subtitles in FV Player in this guide - How to Create Subtitles.
Use Video Lightbox for Images as Well
This option in the Sitewide FV Player Defaults enables FV Player to use the Lightbox to handle not only videos, but images as well, creating a one seamless gallery for the whole page.
Video lightbox is an integrated part of FV Player. It allows users to show videos in an overlay-style gallery, thus bringing them above other content. Lightbox is a quite popular gallery solution, so many people use various stand-alone plugins for implementing it into their websites. Since this solution is built into FV Player, there's no need for those anymore. All info about Lightbox in FV Player can be read here - Using the Video Lightbox Effect.
Example of a video in Lightbox:
Use Video Lightbox for WP Galleries
FV Player's Lightbox also works with WordPress [gallery] galleries,switching them automatically to link to the image URLs, rather than the attachment pages. This option will activate this function on your page.
