Version: 4.12.7

Introduction

In this section, you can find guides on how to use many of the player features not addressed in other sections of this documentation.

📄️ Related Content

The article in this section describes how to implement common use-cases related to the Related Content feature. This feature adds a component to the UI which enables viewers to navigate to related content. Developers can configure the related content using the exposed Related API.

📄️ Social Sharing

This article describes how to implement common use cases related to Social Sharing feature.

📄️ Up Next

This article describes how to implement common use cases related to the Up Next feature - for example how to use the API.

📄️ VR

This article describes how to implement common use cases related to VR / 360 - for example how to use the API.

📄️ Web Audio

THEOplayer provides a Web Audio API, which allows you to do some quite nifty stuff with the player's audio output. If you are unfamiliar with the ideas behind Web Audio API, Mozilla has an excellent intro to the basic ideas you need to know about here. This guide will help you set up a demo just like the one we have in our Demo Zone.

📄️ Clipping

THEOplayer supports playing only a selected part of a video-on-demand stream, rather than playing it from start to finish. This can be used for example to watch a single game-changing event from a sports match, highlight an important part of a long video presentation, or skip straight to the best part of a song's video clip.

📄️ Picture-in-Picture

This guide explains what Picture-in-Picture (PiP) is, describes how to implement it and links relevant resources.

📄️ Using hlsDateRange property

This article explains how to enable the DateRange feature, so that a text track and cues are created.

📄️ Preloading

This article contains a description of the possible preloading settings and will show you how to use them on your player. This is possible on Web, Android and iOS SDKs. The aim of preloading is to improve user experience by loading parts of the video before the Play button is hit when the user is likely to play the video.