Changing the kvs player to a player of your choice

[Daniel]

Hello,

I couldn't find a wayt to change the player to a different one, the variables are hard to deal with.

You have $flashvars and you have $data

There's alos player/iframe_embed.php which is encoded which you can't touch

And you also have template/block/view_video/video_view_video_view.tpl

 

I would need to change player and place in values like poster, video source and that's about it.

So let's say I can grab the screenshot with $flashvars.preview_url

The video link in flashvars doesn't work but the one in $data works

I could only debug it using print_r or var_dump

 

There should be a way for us to change the player and documentation on how to do it

 

Thanks

[Tech Support]

7 hours ago, Daniel said:

There's alos player/iframe_embed.php which is encoded which you can't touch

You can change embed player template in Settings -> Embed player settings, it will be 100% the same code as inside video_view block template. So just test in one place and then migrate to another.

7 hours ago, Daniel said:

the variables are hard to deal with

Which variables do you need?

[Daniel]

Hello,

Thanks for the info,

The variables I need are: poster and video files for the player.

That's about it.

[Tech Support]

Poster is:

{{$flashvars.preview_url}}

Video files are:

{{foreach from=$data.formats|smarty:nodefaults item="format"}}
	{{$format.postfix}}: {{$format.file_url}}
{{/foreach}}

But please note that you have to switch off Enable links obfuscation option in Settings -> Content settings, because this feature only works in KVS player.