Customize your Player Settings

Customize the look and feel of your media Player

Step 1 - Access Your Player Settings

Click on your profile icon at the bottom left part to open your ⚙️ Settings. 

From there, click Player to get started with adjusting your Player Settings.

Step 2 - Configure the menu options

Controls

Click the Controls tab to view the options to adjust how your audience interacts with your media Player. We recommend trying different combinations to see which works best for your audience, but you can also take the configuration shown below as a good starting point for your audience.

Timeline

The Timeline options are mostly cosmetic and preference-based. We recommend turning all of these options on, especially if you plan on making use of the Chapters feature in your account.

Video

The Video options have some device-based features that you may want to consider as well as a Play on Open option for videos watched through a shared link. Fullscreen and Volume are the only two here that we recommend whole-heartedly, the rest are up to you and your audience's preferences.

Info

The information displayed when the Player is paused is what you will be adjusting here. Play the video preview on the right side and then pause it to see the Title, Description, and Date info appear and disappear in real-time.

HINT: Removing the Date from your videos can be very useful when sharing "evergreen" content.

Appearance

Adjust the color of your Player, remove the Membership.io logo and add your own (for Start & higher plans), and choose whether or not to Overlay the video with the darkened background when it is paused. This option was added to allow your audience to pause the media Player and view something important on the screen without having it darkened.

Privacy

Finally, we have arrived at the Privacy options for your media player. The Download Privacy toggles will allow you to provide or restrict the downloadable files for your audience to access when viewing your media.

The Transcriptions search toggle is the main one to focus on here, as the magnifying glass that appears in the top-right corner of your Player is controlled by this. Leave that turned on, unless for some reason you don't want to show off the amazing Membership.io functionality that comes standard with any media uploaded to the site.

Step 3 - Save your changes

Before you leave this page, be sure to hit Save above the video preview on the right to have these settings shown wherever your content is shared.